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kemi.cocoa

London · member since March 2026

8 posts · 42 comments

Primary school teacher in London. Cocoa, vanilla and warm spices remind me of my mum's kitchen. Here to learn and to share what I find.

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Steaming mulled wine in a wide pan, orange slices, cinnamon and star anise on top End-of-term presents that smelled of cinnamonEvery December my class gives me little homemade things. The one I kept for years was a jam jar of cinnamon sticks tied… Challenge: one smell memory in every cardSmall challenge for the season, from a teacher who writes thirty cards a year: in each card, put one smell you share… A first scent for my brother, who owns only deodorantMy little brother turns thirty soon and has never owned a bottle of anything, just the same deodorant since school. I'd… First Christmas dinner at mine: which smell hits first?I'm hosting Christmas dinner for the first time and I've started planning far too early. I want the flat to smell right… Describe pencil shavings without saying woodChallenge from my classroom: I sharpened a whole pot of pencils for Monday, and the children have to describe the smell… Potpourri of dried red and pink petals, barks and pods in a glass jar Apple peel and cinnamon simmering on the hobParents' evening tonight, so before I left for school I put apple peel, a cinnamon stick and a few cloves in a pan of… Papery bark peeling from the trunk of a frankincense tree in Dhofar Apple crumble, cinnamon and a wet SundayWet Sunday in London. Apples from the school harvest table in a crumble, cinnamon, and one clove because Mum always put… Amber and ambergris, are they the same thing?Daft question from a primary teacher. Half the threads in here say amber and the other half say ambergris. Is the amber…

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My daughter is thirteen and wants a grown-up scentI wore it like it was alot more than that That's the age exactly. Mulling spices on a saucer, before any wineDid it with my Year 4s, hot water only, obviously. Two of them said the clove smelled like the dentist. Cocoa nibs on the flat-top smell like toastSounds like the roast does the talking. The club's page on how roasting shapes the smell of cocoa says a low roast leans acidic and a high roast more bitter… Describe a rose without using the word roseMine: my mum's best handbag, lipstick and peppermints. Ingrid, I think we smelled the same thing. A first scent for my brother, who owns only deodorantWoody with a bit of coffee, then. I've written three words on a card for the shop: coffee, pepper, wet wood. Samples first, bottle later. Starting a clove orange for the linen drawerI do these with my class every December. Their thumbs ache too. Rose water, cardamom and every family weddingRose with a bit of cardamom sounds like your whole family in one. The cardamom page, on the spicy seed of the ginger family is worth a look before you go. My girlfriend says she hates perfume, now whatA jar of toasted cumin with a note about the night she stood at your station? That's a present.