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mel_from_adelaide

Adelaide · member since February 2026

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I work at a cellar door in the Barossa, near Adelaide. I sniff wine all day, so fragrance felt like the next step.

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Blackcurrant bud Grapefruit

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Van Gogh painting: a large bunch of white roses in a green vase on a pale green ground Choosing scent by family, like wine by regionAt the cellar door people often choose a region before a grape. Can you do that with perfume, pick a family first and… Assortment of Indonesian spices and aromatics: chillies, ginger, turmeric, pepper, shallots Cellar door words that work on a smelling stripAt the cellar door we say blackcurrant leaf for some reds. Smelled blackcurrant bud on a strip at a workshop and it's… My sister turns forty and I only know her wineSpring's here and my sister turns forty next month. I know exactly which wine she'd pick at the cellar door, but I've… Amber frankincense tears in a small dish on a black metal stand Jasmine on the cellar door fence at duskJasmine's out on the back fence at work. Strong at dusk, almost nothing at midday.

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Cellar door words that work on a smelling stripGrass, gooseberry, wet stone, pencil shavings. That's the start of one. Coffee beans between sniffs: does it work?Same at the cellar door: people ask for a cracker between wines. I send them out to the verandah for a breath instead. My girlfriend says she hates perfume, now whatA cooking class together? She'd get to smell everything from the start. Choosing scent by family, like wine by regionRead it on my lunch break with the vines just budding outside. Citrus feels like the Clare Valley to me, chypre like an old Barossa cellar. Saturday market smells, stall by stallWiney apples is exactly the cellar door word. You'd do well out here. My sister turns forty and I only know her wineCitrus it is, and samples before any bottle. Thanks all. My sister turns forty and I only know her wineRiesling, always, bone dry, lime and wet stone on the nose. Never a big red. Why grapefruit peel smells faintly of sweatAt the cellar door people say grapefruit about our whites all day. Never thought about why.