Guest guest Posted January 1, 2007 Report Share Posted January 1, 2007 At 02:19 AM 1/1/2007, you wrote: > >Pretty tricky oil it is, Helena! >I started using it only recently, and I think it's a love-it-or-hate >it scent (it took me a while to ignore what Anya's opinion of it is, >and I won't repeat it here, hoping she wouldn't either!). Glad you answered Helenae rather than me, Ayala! I can't get past that ***scent. Well, at least to my nose. I don't think many actually use davana, but if you do, post here, try to get me past my prejudice and help H out. >Cognac absolute - >to accentuate it's wine-like tones Cognac is second on my hate list after davana. There is something they have in common, the fruity/wine character, I guess that just is awful to me. To digress for a moment, and harken back to the bitter glycoside in grapefruits and mandarins that I've written about in the past. In school, in citrus lab, I learned why the smell of grapefruit and mandarines were so repugnant to me: a certain percentage of people have a receptor site that makes them smell like petrochemicals, like a tire store. Stench. Weirdly enough, the EOs don't smell that way to me! I love them. Well, maybe not the mandarines, I get a funk from them, a note that just is down and dirty. Some are genetically programmed to smell soap when they smell cilantro. Maybe that's the case with davana? > > Lime and petitgrain makes it musty and nauseating. I wonder if H is stepping into a receptor site problem, with the other citrus? Or, it may just be as simple as she is aware they are making it musty and nauseating! >- I would go for sweeter citruses, like sweet orange, grapefruit, >mandarin, clementine... Rather than the green and dry ones. I don't >even want to imagine it with lime (well, I AM imagining it as a >combination between a fruit syrup and a cleaning product! But this is >my association with lime, it needs to be balanced by very specific >notes for me to not smell too cleaning-agent-like). Ayala, have you smelled distilled lime EO? Smells like sickenly sweet candy. Must be used with caution. >Lastly, Davana is so powerful you really need to be sure to not overdo >it. Just a drop or two may be enough depending on the composition. So >use it very light handedly (we all know it's easy to add drops, but >impossible to take them out). This might be one of the instances where a 10% dilution is necessary to work with the product. Anya McCoy Anya's Garden of Natural Perfume http://anyasgarden.com Artisan Natural Perfumers Guild http://artisannaturalperfumers.org Natural Perfumers Community Group / Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 Becky <nocauseinme@...> wrote: > Myrhh just plain smells like rubber to me, always, beginning to end. Heehee! ) Myrrh always smelled like Jim Beam to me. Odd how we all perceive things differently, isn't it? Makes me wonder how people will perceive my perfumes . . . . > I know, I made a blend, and put some on my arm to test. To me it was very sweet, extremely floral, and totally feminine(I made it for a woman). I had one of my female coworkers smell it on my arm and she told me that it " smelled " different " , like the woods, like a man-in-the- woods type smell " . Say what!?! That also reminded me of a discussion that we had here of how any kind of fragrance smells " masculine " or " feminine " depending on the sex wearing it. I I kono __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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