Was: TOTD 8-6 NOW ambergris

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Evie asked:

Can someone describe 'ambergris' to me?

Adam responded:

To me, an absolutely essential base note, it smells just like a barn.

Andrine adds:

After letting my tincture steep for the requisite amount of time, upon

opening it and putting a little on a scent strip and sniffing

gingerly, I was immediately 5 years old again, in the apartment of the

kind little old man who lived upstairs from us. He smoked cigars, and

he had lived there for decades, so it had accumulated all sorts of

smells. Anyway, I really can't say why, but ambergris smells just

like his apartment. Maybe he had a chunk of it there. He had all

kinds of odd old things.

Now I'm going to have to give it a sniff and see if I can get past my

brain's insistence that it's Jim Van Duzer's apartment, to see if I

can smell a barn in it too. (BTW, Adam, that apartment was in

Portland, off Vista, up in Portland Heights. And the Van Duzer

Corridor on Hwy 18 that goes out to the coast at Lincoln City is named

after my friend Jim, and his brother. They logged that corridor to

enable the road to be built there.)

Cheers!

Andrine