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maeve.moss

Galway · member since May 2025

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I teach fiddle in Galway and walk the bog roads with the dog. Moss, turf smoke, wet stone: those are my smells. I came for one question and stayed for the company.

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Old medical botany plate showing a leafy branch of the myrrh tree in colour My granny's dressing table bottle with no nameHere's a thing. My granny kept one bottle on her dressing table in Connemara, ribbed glass with a stopper and a label… Small glass jar filled with golden frankincense grains on a wooden table First turf fire of the autumn in the front roomHere's a thing. We lit the first turf fire of the autumn last night, and this morning the front room still smells of… Silver pomander opened into segments like a flower, a museum piece Learned by ear: Grasse's know-how on UNESCO's listHere's a thing. UNESCO's entry on the perfume skills of Pays de Grasse was inscribed in 2018 and covers three things… Grey-green tuft of oakmoss clinging to a slender branch in a Swedish wood Bog road after the rain, wet stone and mossHere's a thing. The rain stopped at four and I took the dog out the bog road before the light went and the whole place… Close-up of open pine cones with brown scales arranged in a spiral Barmbrack and turnip lanterns before the pumpkinsHere's a thing. The shops in Galway have the barmbracks stacked up already and the smell of mixed spice and tea-soaked… Wicker basket filled with freshly picked black blackcurrants, set in the grass Bog road heather gone rust and still honeyedHere's a thing. The heather along the bog road has gone from purple to rust and it still smells of honey when the sun… Pink and white clary sage spike standing in a meadow in Armenia Studding oranges with cloves at my gran'sHere's a thing. It's lashing on the bog road and I passed a crate of oranges outside the shop and I was straight back…

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Mulling spices on a saucer, before any wineThe nutmeg went from nothing to Christmas pudding the second it warmed and the clove stayed exactly where it was, so it did. Oud chips at Eid: are the trees protected?Here's a thing. The agarwood article on Wikipedia says plantations now infect the trees with fungus on purpose to get the resin and it works with varying… What was on your nan's dressing table?Here's a thing. My nana kept her good soap in the hot press with the linen and the whole house smelled of it the day the sheets came out, and I'd give a lot to… Describe vanilla without the word sweetHere's a thing. The pod I split smelled of a damp hayloft and prunes and the rosin dust that settles on the fiddle and it took me a good while to say it, so it… Barmbrack and turnip lanterns before the pumpkinsHere's a thing. Scooping one out is how you loose a thumbnail. The truth of it. A spoon and a bad temper and the smell all through the kitchen for days, like a… First turf fire of the autumn in the front roommore earth than tar That's the word I was missing, grand. The dog has found the warm spot again and the house is ticking over on that earthy smell and nobody… Is patchouli a wood or a leaf?The patchouli page says it's distilled from the dried leaves of a plant in the mint family and has nothing to do with a tree and still it smells like the floor… Frankincense tears smell different before you light themTurf does the same trick, the sod smells of wet earth and roots in the basket and only turns sweet and peppery on the fire and you'd never guess it was the…