priya.cardamomin Learning to Smell · Toronto ·
ExerciseThread of the week: which note leaves your strip first?
Thread of the week: which note leaves first? Jess asked this when she joined, so let's watch it happen instead of just reading about it.
1) Put the same scent on two paper strips, or a drop of something from the kitchen if you'd rather.
2) Smell them right away, after lunch and before bed.
3) Write down what disappeared first and what's still hanging on.
No skin needed for this one. The long version is in the pyramid Class, from top notes to base. Over to you.
7 comments
jess.in.philly
Laundry musk reporting in. The citrusy sparkle at the top was gone before my lunch break, and the musk was still on the strip when I went to bed.
nell.wattle
The Wikipedia page on perfume notes mentions an evaporation scale from 1 to 100, with top notes at 1 to 14, middle notes at 15 to 60 and base notes at 61 to 100. So your musk actually sits in the slow band and the citrus in the quick one.
juniper_jules
It's like a glaze that looks glossy wet and dries matte. I read in Mademoiselle Bulle that rubbing your wrists makes it worse, because the heat from the friction sends the top notes off faster. I've been rubbing for years.
jess.in.philly
Guilty, every single morning. Not anymore.
orla.citrus
So anything citrus is always going to be the first to go? Grim news for me.
ingrid_berlin
Not grim. Enjoy the treble while it plays. /Ingrid
priya.cardamom
Great results all round. Next week: same strips, but smelled blind by someone else.