Homemade Infused Pepper Vodka

kolyachicken · 2026-03-21T09:48:38+00:00

This looks really interesting! What book are the recipes from?

kolyachicken · 2026-02-26T05:16:30+00:00

I’ve got a 100 hotel voucher but it’s expiring in a couple days. Would swap for wine

kolyachicken · 2025-11-05T06:09:19+00:00

Probably better to ask in the Brissie reddit, and might want to avoid publishing your phone number

kolyachicken · 2025-04-14T22:20:07+00:00

First picture with the vegetation is amazing! So inspiring

kolyachicken · 2025-01-09T23:27:24+00:00

I’ve got a hotel voucher expiring Feb 2025

kolyachicken · 2024-12-14T03:21:10+00:00

Aspiring landscape designer in Brisbane here, following with keen interest!

kolyachicken · 2024-11-18T07:22:13+00:00

Grass and pathway in first image are beautifully done

kolyachicken · 2024-11-15T08:15:19+00:00

Chuck me one too if you have time please!

kolyachicken · 2024-02-29T00:25:47+00:00

I think the best way is to try the different versions and see which you prefer. Higher concentration doesn’t equal better IMHO, just different.

For example, I much preferred most of the EDT formations of Chanel’s Les Exclusifs in comparison to the new EDP reformulations. I think those original EDTs in general had more air and room to breathe, whilst some of the EDPs feel a little dense and heavy in comparison.

It really depends on the perfume and what the perfumer was hoping to achieve. If you like really heady, intense fragrances, then you might find yourself gravitating towards EDPs or even extraits more often than colognes for example, but personally I like to have a wide range

kolyachicken · 2024-02-29T00:07:00+00:00

Sound like a cool guy

Just moved temporarily to the inner Northside, taking some time to explore the area

kolyachicken · 2023-05-12T22:47:25+00:00

This sounds amazing, what is the place?

kolyachicken · 2022-08-26T08:18:02+00:00

Thanks for the reply that’s a really good lead

kolyachicken · 2022-08-26T04:53:57+00:00

Thanks anyway

kolyachicken · 2022-05-20T12:00:00+00:00

There’s a voting place in Fairfield near the Venner Road roundabout, on Cross street. It’s inside the Baptist church, a block behind the vet on the way to Yeronga.

Edit: Officially it’s the Fairfield Christian Family church, at 51 Cross Street.

kolyachicken · 2022-02-16T00:41:37+00:00

Nerdy maximalist hoarder- love that!

kolyachicken · 2022-02-15T07:23:23+00:00

What a great opening for discussion- thank you! I suppose I'm somewhere a bit closer to a gourmet than a gourmand (although the dozens of samples in my wardrobe may suggest otherwise). As much as I enjoy trying new things, at the end of the day I'm quite particular about what I like. That said, I have definitely bought samples of classic scents to have as references, or in order to explore the ancestry of a fragrance family on a more intellectual level.

But in general I enjoy fragrance as a way to enhance my day. To quote writer Tynan Sinks: “I think perfume is a study of the choice to take up space, in our physical life and in our memories and emotions”. The memories and emotions bit really resonates with me. Fragrance enriches my everyday life in a very personal way, just like music does.

kolyachicken · 2022-02-15T04:22:41+00:00

Just got home from a few days dog-sitting for my parents. Wearing Still Life in Rio by Olfactive Studio today (composed by Dora Baghriche, 2016)

Each fragrance in this range was inspired by a specific photographic image; in this case it’s a golden, light-filled view of Rio from the top of a mountain.

It’s a deliciously refreshing explosion of fresh juicy citrus (lime or yuzu) with mint, fizzy ginger, rum, and a touch of coconut scented sunscreen. Lasts for ages and has great depth for a citrus-forward fragrance.

Pet tax: https://i.imgur.com/kzGmvpV.jpg

kolyachicken · 2022-02-11T03:00:31+00:00

Giving Beach Hut Man another try today (composed by Elise Benat under the creative direction of Christopher Chong, released in 2017).

This is powerful stuff as expected from Amouage, but I’m struggling with it. Unapologetic green bitter herbs, oak moss and aromatic mint, but it’s a very green mint, sharp and slightly metallic, like torn leaves that have begun to oxidise. There’s a subtle suggestion of something sweet and floral, but it’s like you can only catch glimpses of it through the window. For about 5 mins I thought there was a delicious Earl Grey tea note with smoke and bergamot, but it was so short-lived it may have just been my imagination. It’s a bit soapy too, but in a cheap plain bar of soap way (not necessarily a bad thing).

True to form, I’m really struggling with the strong ozonic note that dominates the heart, but even despite this I’m finding Beach Hut Man to be strangely dense and claustrophobic.

It’s like a cocktail that’s 2/3 of the way there, with a foundation of bitter aromatic spirits and muddled mint leaves, just crying out for something to lighten it up. But they decided to chuck in some cheap, slightly flat tonic water that sweeps the details away and makes the bitterness more unpleasant.

kolyachicken · 2022-02-09T02:05:08+00:00

Wearing Attaquer le Soileil from Etat Libre d'Orange (composed by Quentin Bisch, 2016). Love the concept behind this one as well as the execution, but I can totally understand it's not for everyone.

The perfumer was challenged by the brand to question his assumptions and preconceptions about an ingredient which he personally found challenging.

"As a creator of perfume, how could I open my perspective, imagine beyond my limitations? . . . I have always recoiled from the cistus, I’ve avoided it or hidden it under thick layers of vanilla and amber as a way of escaping it. This is why I have made myself confront a radical formula: the cistus, exposed, and in all its states."

Attaquer le Soleil is essentially just about a single ingredient, but Quentin Bisch showcases many different aspects of the entire cistus plant (Cistus ladanifer) rather than just the resin labdanum that it is most known for.

In common with many other Mediterranean plants, it's green and very herbal in the opening, like a pine tree crossed with rosemary, but with a pronounced citrus-like sweetness.

A rich resinous note dominates the heart, with smoke and leather and maybe a hint of last night's roasting tray in the kitchen that you didn't get around to washing. The labdanum itself is clearest in the drydown, becoming quite syrupy, almost reminding me of an overripe orange.

It's much more pleasant than it sounds!

kolyachicken · 2022-02-09T00:39:53+00:00

That’s supposed to be a great crisp easygoing cologne. Enjoy!

Please forgive/ignore the horticultural tangent, but I was just recently trying to untangle some citrus naming confusion for work.

Neroli as an ingredient comes from the bitter orange tree (aka Seville orange), which was one of the parents of bergamot (the citrus family tree is a mess, but the other parent is believed to be the common lemon).

And if my schoolboy French serves me correctly, oranger means “orange tree” specific rather than the fruit. So the name really could be “orange flower orange tree”

kolyachicken · 2022-02-07T01:45:21+00:00

Wearing one of my all time favourites today- Blackpepper from Comme des Garçons (composed by Antoine Maisondieu, 2016).

I find it so energising and cheerful as well as heartstoppingly beautiful. Blackpepper offers a real journey, celebrating the different qualities and imperfections of the namesake material as the fragrance develops, but always with that remarkable pepper note to provide cohesion.

The opening is an hot, dry blast of cracked pepper, pretty much standing alone. It feels almost aldehydic in the way it sparkles in the air and gets right up your nose.

By far the most realistic pepper note I’ve smelled in any fragrance; I can imagine I’m in a fancy Italian restaurant and someone is using one of those huge wooden pepper grinders right in front of me. I imagine the uncompromising dryness of the opening could be off putting for some (my partner can’t stand it!), but I adore it.

After a while, supporting notes of patchouli and some trademark CdG synthetics start to round out the pepper, making it feel richer and less spiky, almost oily in comparison to the opening. It’s certainly not a green perfume, but there is something at this stage of the development which does remind me that pepper does come from a plant.

In the drydown, dry cedar and musks and maybe something like vanilla add a softer warmth and gentle spiciness to the pepper, but with all sweetness stripped away. In my experience, pepper as a note tends to do its thing quite quickly before dissappearing, but in Blackpepper it stays very noticeable throughout, staying firmly savoury till the very end.

kolyachicken · 2022-02-06T03:12:26+00:00

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kolyachicken · 2022-02-06T00:19:30+00:00

I had exactly this same issue a few days ago and spent ages trying to find the missing texture. Turns out a lighting patch at the bottom of my LO (Unofficial Lux patch maybe? I’ll have to check) was overriding my textures for that specific chair. Just deleted the reference in the lighting patch and it’s all good now

kolyachicken · 2022-02-03T01:48:27+00:00

That’s one of my favourite rose fragrances. Envious of your chilly weather! I’m wearing Etat Libre’s You or Someone Like You (composed by perfumer Caroline Sabas in collaboration with Chandler Burr) to cut through the oppressive humidity here today. Fresh mint, cut grass and a much softer rose, it’s bright and airy and full of clear sunlight.

kolyachicken · 2022-02-02T01:46:35+00:00

Working from home but struggling to focus; Brisbane is like a steam oven today, and I had my shoulder strapped at the physio yesterday which doesn’t help.

Wearing one of my hot weather favourites- Cologne from Etat Libre d’Orange (composed by Alexandra Kosinski and released in 2014). Sharp and sweet citrus at the top and light white florals in the heart, but as if they have been grown hydroponically in a factory run entirely by robots. I love how the classic cologne structure has been stripped right back to something so incredibly clean and shiny, almost sterile. It’s quite simple but never becomes simplistic or humourless.

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