Re: TOTD 120908: most hated

[Guest guest]

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> Your fairy godmother is back and will let you choose one aromatic

> material that you never want to smell again in your life. The deal is

> you can use it, but you ask godmother to descend from fairy-godmother

> land and apply it for you so you don't actually have to smell it.

> What's your choice?

>

Citronella, lemon eucalyptus, litsea cubeba (may chang) and lemongrass.

I love lemon eo, but these eos don't smell lemony to me. They smell

like harsh chemicals, they even smell synthetic (but my suppliers are

reliable and sell no synths).

I detest even the lightest touch of any of these.

On the other hand, my daughter loves them all, and would use them in

everything. She must take after her father . . . . )

~Becky

[Guest guest]

> Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 8:45 AM

> Your fairy godmother is back and will let you choose one

> aromatic

> material that you never want to smell again in your life.

> The deal is

> you can use it, but you ask godmother to descend from

> fairy-godmother

> land and apply it for you so you don't actually have to

> smell it.

> What's your choice?

>

Fairy godmother said if you hate it please send it to Bb

She will use it.

[Guest guest]

i despise all of those. the worst, citronella, second worst...lemongrass

[Guest guest]

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> > Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 8:45 AM

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> Fairy godmother said if you hate it please send it to Bb

> She will use it.

>

ROFL! I would gladly get rid of these your way, but my daughter

already took all mine. Sorry!

~B

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Tagetes

Especially because I hate it (I cannot be in the same room with the

stuff on a scent strip) but find it eminently useful.

[Guest guest]

>

> Your fairy godmother is back and will let you choose one aromatic

> material that you never want to smell again in your life. The deal

is

> you can use it, but you ask godmother to descend from fairy-

godmother

> land and apply it for you so you don't actually have to smell it.

> What's your choice?

>

Kewda

closely followed by

Myrhh

I recently made friends with Davana - after loathing her for years and

not allowing her in my space - after 2-3+ days on the test strip, I

discovered she's soft and sweet and powdery - I never gave her a chance

to stay and linger before

Margi

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Okay sick as I am I really do not have a most hated.

I can usually find an interesting note in just about all aromatic materials.

That is just me.

Sandi

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Clary Sage.....I can't stand the smell. - Sharon Mendoza

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Adam Gottschalk wrote:

> Your fairy godmother is back and will let you choose one aromatic

> material that you never want to smell again in your life. The deal is

> you can use it, but you ask godmother to descend from fairy-godmother

> land and apply it for you so you don't actually have to smell it.

> What's your choice?

Rose Geranium.

Followed by Citronella, Styrax (which is SOOOOOO not amber like!)and

thyme, simply because I used to make a salve with it and it now makes me

ill....(BIG reminder here to work with good ventiallation when mass

producing things!!!!!)

On the other hand I adore lemongrass and lemon eukalyptus...even better

is lemon ironbark and lemon ti tree.....mmmmmhhhhhhhhh

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swanpocket53 wrote:

> Clary Sage.....I can't stand the smell. - Sharon Mendoza

errg. I'd forgotten that. I don't own any as I tossed the stuff I had

out years ago....nasty!

Ambrosia

http://www.perfumebynature.com.au

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I'm not a fan of rose geranium either. And I have a love-hate

relationship with lavender but overall there aren't any that I've come

across that I outright dislike.

[Guest guest]

>

> Your fairy godmother is back and will let you choose one aromatic

> material that you never want to smell again in your life. The deal

> is you can use it, but you ask godmother to descend from fairy-

> godmother land and apply it for you so you don't actually have to

> smell it. What's your choice?

Well, I'm glad to see a few others like me who, regardless of what it

is and how stinky it might be, give it more than a chance because we

believe in the good in every scent that we have at our disposal.

I laughed about the clary sage because when I first bought it about 8

or 9 years ago, the guy I bought it from said he couldn't be without

it. It smelled funky to me but I knew of all the good things said

about it, and that it would be a good oil to have. Got it home and

tried to get used to it and hated it more and more all the time.

Shelved it for years. Guess what? It blossomed in the bottle.

Either that or my nose did an about face. Because now it smells

lovely and the others that I've bought since smell equally lovely.

Now -- the citronella... That's been a hard one for me too. I

believe there's a place for it. But smelling it neat... Eeeewwwww!

Many things smelled neat make my nose curl up, make my toenails want

to curl too. Even tuberose. But I'm not going to ask my fairy

godmother to make me not have to smell them. Not when I'd rather be

asking her for an endless supply of ambergris!

Cheers!

Andrine

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<snip>

> thyme, simply because I used to make a salve with it and it now

makes me

> ill....(BIG reminder here to work with good ventiallation when mass

> producing things!!!!!) <snip>

I received a sandalwood balm in a swap a couple years ago. It smelled

great until my son got into it one night and smeared it all over his

arms and legs. For about a year or so the smell of sandalwood made me

nauseous.

[Guest guest]

me either! if I do a lemon verbena with sage, I will choose white sage....its

fresher and I think it smells much fresher!

[Guest guest]

Dear Fairy Godmother

You know how much I like a challenge, however, so far Lippia Javanica

has gotten the better of me. I have tried it on test blotters in the

morning, in the afternoon, and the evening but still I can't detect

even the vaguest hint of the honey-like scent some say that lurks

there. Yes, indeed I do not recoil as much as when my first

acquaintance with it assaulted my eager nose and I thought it smelled

like a mouldy forest floor, magnified. True, I can smell a hint of

mintyness there, but that powerful bitter earth-green still hits me in

an inharmonious way in every blend I have tried, no matter how minute

the amount. Yet, I feel it has a place somewhere in a forest blend, if

I can just find a bridge to its secret center, or an essence that will

lure it to reveal its beauty.

What, did I hear you whisper Pelargonium graveolens?

(She rushes out and tries it.)

Well, who would have believe it, it actually does the trick.

Moral of the story; talking to your Fairy Godmother is actually not as

insane as one might have thought. I think I'll have some more

conversations in the future. Now, dear Fairy Godmother what about

helping me find some Ambergris on the beach?

Sophia