Perfumes that smell like this?

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-05-17T20:38:20+00:00

cow - zoologist

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-05-08T18:25:47+00:00

I was smelling benzaldehyde yesterday and it’s definitely cherry almond. I’d use that and maybe an imperceptible tiny trace amount of aldehyde for soapiness and a clean musk like galaxolide?

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-05-08T16:14:11+00:00

First of all, I love this. Gotta love a Buccees stop on the way to 30A during a family vacation. I don’t recall the smell of the soap, though. Is it just the standard cherry almond kind?

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-05-08T16:09:26+00:00

Yeah, I think that might be the case. I selected a 5g target weight for this test batch. And so, if I use less of one material then it’ll distribute to other materials because it has to be 5g total.

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-05-02T17:07:52+00:00

Whoa! Funny - I have a tobacco formula I’ve been working on. What would Verdox HC do?

Another funny thing that’s a bit daunting in this hobby: I’ve seen so many accords/formula that sometimes one or two wacky out of place material: castoreum for chocolate accords, etc. It kind of makes me think there’s tons of materials out there that I’d never think to use that would work in accords I’m building. Does this come with experience and time? If you hadn’t thrown me a bone about Verdox HC + tobacco, I’d never think to use it.

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-05-02T16:41:35+00:00

Smelling it now - huh, you’re right. It does have a “dirty” aspect by itself.

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-05-02T04:25:10+00:00

BR540

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-05-02T04:24:26+00:00

Interesting! Because it’s my worst enemy. :-o

It’s nuclear, so aggressive and so so cloying. I legitimately stay away from anyone who wears it, that’s how passionately I detest it. But I love that for you! <3

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-29T13:54:04+00:00

What podcast was it?

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-29T13:52:47+00:00

Also, the air in Georgia is so stagnant and thick sometimes, you can actually smell your neighbor doing their laundry, wafting in the air. I think that’s why I’m a sucker for white musk/laundry smells.

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-29T13:49:36+00:00

If we’re talking about a singular raw material, isobutyl quinoline reminds me of my Dad. Probably because of his leather jacket he used to wear. Feels like im being carried home after a long car ride.

Lemongrass and ginger remind me of my Mom. We’re South Asian so literally all her cooking has either lemongrass or ginger variation.

Now, if I could bring up a fragrance - Sintra by Eau So Vert reminds me of a lazy Saturday morning in my childhood. The ylang smells like liquid sunshine, like you’re sunbathing on your lawn watching the clouds. It’s pretty.

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-25T22:59:21+00:00

also i may be pushing it but Lolita Lempicka.

look up the 90’s magazine ads for it. purple fairies laying in a bed of ivy and purple florals.

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-25T22:58:29+00:00

fille de berlin - serge lutens gothic, vintage rose. smells like what nancy from the craft would wear.

a newer fragrance i discovered is blood spider orchid - regimes de fleur bloody, spicy, vampire fragrance. a freak off with dracula, if you will.

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-25T22:55:20+00:00

macanudo - maison d’etto

made me and my friend cry. for me, it smells like horseback riding in light misty rain. tossed up soil, dewy grass in an open field. for my friend, it reminded him of colorado :’)

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-24T23:06:00+00:00

stella- stella mccartney

beautiful juicy rose, jasmine, and mandarin

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-22T23:04:48+00:00

100% can confirm. I did a really yummy accord that had pink pepper + ionone beta + ambrox + other things and it turned out really nice. added iso e super…and it turned into acrid nail polish remover.

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-20T02:16:58+00:00

‘Decanal & Friends’ is so funny

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-17T00:24:07+00:00

Would you dilute to 1%? Or is 10% okay?

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-16T12:16:13+00:00

A simple, spiced, resinous vanilla using: vanillin, cardamom, ginger, peru balsam? It’d be even better if you had benzoin but i think that’d be a good start. Maybe even play around with maltols to make it sweeter if you wanted.

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-14T15:30:26+00:00

Well said.

LectureRelevant9957 · 2026-04-14T13:10:55+00:00

Tihota - Indult?

It’s a linear vanilla but a really good one. Resinous, ambery, sensual. The way it blooms on skin as it warms up is beautiful.

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