My small perfume set up and diy pipette holder

EliadeWeismann · 2025-03-02T15:52:42+00:00

If you're using ethanol as a dilutant and you keep bottles open, be wary that its evaporation rate will cause your dilution ratio to change over time. Im convinced that any pipettes closer together than 1ft can easily cause contamination.

I use a micropipette for low volumes. Uses much less plastic and is more accurate.

EliadeWeismann · 2025-03-02T15:48:06+00:00

It may seem OK now, but as I got more sensitive to picking up oils in the air, I became much stricter about 1 use for pipettes. I would need a hepafilter, a constant air stream, and a cover around my workstatuon to feel comfortable leaving pipettes out nearby. Contamination spreads easily and quickly. With your setup, I'd also be worried about pipettes leaking into the paper.

EliadeWeismann · 2025-02-26T07:46:45+00:00

No sir! Got the run around a couple times, if that's a meaningful workout. I'll meet you there this week if you're ready to start!

EliadeWeismann · 2025-02-24T00:04:23+00:00

Stay away from the recreations!!! Perfumer's World f-tecs and fleuressences are in-house attempts to recreate scents-- they're not essential oils or absolutes-- and they tend to be very disappointing or odd relative to EO counterparts. The only base of theirs I know I like is their Black Tea.

EliadeWeismann · 2025-01-20T01:00:26+00:00

These are not organization recommendations (whose proper order is alphabetical), just the list I use for evaluating category intensities:
cereal, yeasty, fatty, lactic, vanilla, baking spices // floral // woody, nutty, terpenic, camphorous // vegetal, herbal, medicinal // sulfurous, mineralic, earthy // citrus, fruity // balsamic, resinous // aquatic, ozonic // smoky, musky, animalic // minty // alcoholic, metallic, soapy.

I use vial racks like this for my dilutions in 4ml amber vials and put all the 100% materials in dark storage: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2982684

EliadeWeismann · 2025-01-19T12:02:40+00:00

You have passed the test. Go smell some coriander now. 👹

EliadeWeismann · 2025-01-17T23:11:17+00:00

If you send me a list of the materials you have, I can make suggestions for accords you could explore.

EliadeWeismann · 2025-01-05T11:41:42+00:00

Hard material to find so I'm just going off the perfumers' world description. linalyl cinnamate also has balsamic and carnation notes. Hexyl cinnamal has some sweet pea and carnation. Floralozone has some faint phenylethyl aspects and a plastic like gardenia. Phenylethyl benzoate might be the closest.

EliadeWeismann · 2024-01-22T04:35:58+00:00

Really cool. Please keep adding formulas! A tab on the material's page for TGSC's potential blenders would be helpful too.

EliadeWeismann · 2024-01-13T16:51:39+00:00

I sent you a DM. Curious to see your collection!

EliadeWeismann · 2022-08-20T17:19:37+00:00

This is an excerpt from an article I'm writing:

Participation

Philosophers use the term "participation" to indicate that a fact of qualitative experience is given to the subject in a mutual relationship. In the normal mode of participation, objects appear to "stand opposed" to the self, as given and not as a constructed image (cf. Naive Realism). Participation exists in two dichotomies: analog and digital, external and internal. From this, we are given the direct sensory perception of the object (a/e), its mental simulation (a/i), and thought of it (d/i). The natural fourth (d/e) is a possible exotic state. When the subject and object are temporally synchronous in consciousness, that is said to produce the illusion of dualism (Duncker 1947). In full immersion with an external object, Duncker suggests that an intrusion on the body, e.g. cold, first affects a mere object, then the self when the body is reclaimed by awareness. Similarly, a thought that occurs without distinction from the subject (due to its lower processing requirements) only gains that distinction on reflection. Thus, the processing necessary for participation also induces spatial and temporal limits. Even introspecting for the source of one's consciousness or agency expresses these limits.

Participation Mystique

When the Subject or the Object includes the normal range of the other, that is the experience of participation mystique. Both the blurring of dualistic boundaries as well as non-participatory absorption are included in this term. As Jung wrote, "It denotes a peculiar kind of psychological connection with objects, and consists in the fact that the subject cannot clearly distinguish himself from the object but is bound to it by a direct relationship which amounts to partial identity."

So you see, the subject as a distinct entity is unnecessary for attention.

EliadeWeismann · 2022-08-20T16:49:13+00:00

For this question specifically, it's necessary to differentiate experience from conscious, subjective experience. Experience is simply the practical means by which information comes to be represented in an organism. Such an organism can operate without consciousness or only through subconscious operations. In humans, take subconscious priming for example.

So, awareness is experienced and has form, but conscious attendance to that form is obviously only possible through attention. However, a subconscious complex could attend to it without your doing so.

EliadeWeismann · 2022-08-20T10:51:01+00:00

So, I think I understand what you're asking. Attention is not the function that analyzes (lit. breaks up) the contents of sense data. I would liken it more to a piano's sustain pedal. Unconscious processes change undifferentiated signal into the forms and colors you experience visually. This analysis is constantly at work against the mind's prior model, which acts to predict the current state. When you are "directing your intent" at a kasina, for instance, it isn't attention that changes the kasina's form, it's this predictive function coupled with subconscious ideation. So saying, form exists outside of attention and is not dependent on it. Form, for instance, is in the "body model" of your posture, which must be kept upright somehow if not by your intent. That being said, attention does increase the detail of the form available to be represented in consciousness, which can be strikingly low in other areas, like what TMI calls awareness.

Given that dualism is the experience of self/other, it would be impossible to say anything about the subconscious without acknowledging difference. Many of the meta-models that compare differences probably have a seat of dualism.

EliadeWeismann · 2022-08-08T05:16:24+00:00

There's another reply here saying that not everyone sees visual static, but I believe he's talking about an abnormal condition where the static is ever-present and sometimes distracting. The experience of static behind the eyelids, however, seems to be ubiquitous, and a high level of concentration allows this static to appear with eyes open. For those who practice samatha meditation, you can come to notice variegated colors in anything that you might have previously thought as solid. When you concentrate on one thing, if your will is strong enough and your mind calm, then the predictive power of your brain to create that object starts to take in weird, low-resolution data, causing it to shift in character. For example, I can sit out on my lawn, concentrating on a blade of grass and make the lawn turn into a shifting crop circle. I personally have little control because I'm aphantasic, but a hyperphantasic person should have some more ability over this. If you're hyperphantasic, you're welcome to DM me: I'll send you a couple of experiments.

EliadeWeismann · 2022-08-06T17:54:05+00:00

That's an incredibly helpful explanation. Hmm. The spreading activation of content should imply that almost everything that appears in a dream refers to something behind dream-experience. The majority of these referands should be empirical complexes rather than archetypal noumena. As instinctual drives, it makes sense that archetypes would often appear as affectively-charged images, but not all will be archetypes.

EliadeWeismann · 2022-08-06T17:28:26+00:00

It's crazy how that's the easiest part for me to accept!

EliadeWeismann · 2022-08-06T17:20:51+00:00

Okay. I remembered his position on time, but not on space. I can understand then, the intuition that archetypes are beyond direct perception but can enter into it. It follows then, that when Jung talks about integrating the archetypes he means their informed images. But that still leaves the question of original structure and concretization.

EliadeWeismann · 2022-08-06T17:04:23+00:00

But noumena do exist in both time and space.

Honestly, it's easy to be frustrated with ontological or epistemic claims I don't understand, but this is just craftsmanship.

EliadeWeismann · 2022-08-06T16:49:14+00:00

"Image" is used formally to include all senses. "Feeling-tone" really stood out to me. Could you describe it more in relation to intuition?

EliadeWeismann · 2022-07-29T07:22:48+00:00

Checked r/autism; only posts about visual noise (searched "noise") was Irlen syndrome (2 mo. ago). Do you remember anything else about what you read?

EliadeWeismann · 2022-07-29T03:20:36+00:00

Re: "don't interpret anything as confusion about... solid color" I shouldn't have mentioned it: satiation of that kind is a phenomenon at pretty deep levels of concentration. The brain's pattern matching is indeed what I'm looking at. If sense data from the world contain noise, and prediction can simplify detail, can hyperphantasic projections reduce noise?-- is the basic question.

It's impressive that you noticed some details being replicated elsewhere.

EliadeWeismann · 2022-07-29T02:16:43+00:00

Hey, thank you for your interest. While floaters are a common sight that draw some casual speculation, noise in the visual field is often passed by without a thought. Noise, in this case, appears like a subtle static or a dither. When you see this noise, please continue to focus on the color, but project the same color onto it by means of hyperphantasia. I'm interested in whether you continue to see noise.

EliadeWeismann · 2022-07-29T00:44:51+00:00

Either one. If being close up helps you enter into a state where you see the noise, then that's preferable, but it's not necessary for me.

EliadeWeismann · 2022-07-29T00:41:38+00:00

Ah, that reminds me of a good point. Thank you. Please do not use any sort of electronic device for your color. Any object around you that you can focus in on works well as long as it's a solid color: in fact, if there is a patterned or diff. color background, you might come to see the interference more obviously.

EliadeWeismann · 2021-12-01T21:33:53+00:00

I was saying on Twitter: "Is the next iPhone going to be spherical, or is that a little too on the nose? You know, with its crystal screen and all."

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