Re: Re: Davana EO blends?

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At 02:19 AM 1/1/2007, you wrote:

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>Pretty tricky oil it is, Helena!

>I started using it only recently, and I think it's a love-it-or-hate

>it scent (it took me a while to ignore what Anya's opinion of it is,

>and I won't repeat it here, hoping she wouldn't either!).

Glad you answered Helenae rather than me, Ayala! I can't get past

that ***scent. Well, at least to my nose. I don't think many actually

use davana, but if you do, post here, try to get me past my prejudice

and help H out.

>Cognac absolute -

>to accentuate it's wine-like tones

Cognac is second on my hate list after davana. There is something

they have in common, the fruity/wine character, I guess that just is

awful to me. To digress for a moment, and harken back to the bitter

glycoside in grapefruits and mandarins that I've written about in the

past. In school, in citrus lab, I learned why the smell of grapefruit

and mandarines were so repugnant to me: a certain percentage of

people have a receptor site that makes them smell like

petrochemicals, like a tire store. Stench. Weirdly enough, the EOs

don't smell that way to me! I love them. Well, maybe not the

mandarines, I get a funk from them, a note that just is down and dirty.

Some are genetically programmed to smell soap when they smell

cilantro. Maybe that's the case with davana?

> > Lime and petitgrain makes it musty and nauseating.

I wonder if H is stepping into a receptor site problem, with the

other citrus? Or, it may just be as simple as she is aware they are

making it musty and nauseating!

>- I would go for sweeter citruses, like sweet orange, grapefruit,

>mandarin, clementine... Rather than the green and dry ones. I don't

>even want to imagine it with lime (well, I AM imagining it as a

>combination between a fruit syrup and a cleaning product! But this is

>my association with lime, it needs to be balanced by very specific

>notes for me to not smell too cleaning-agent-like).

Ayala, have you smelled distilled lime EO? Smells like sickenly sweet

candy. Must be used with caution.

>Lastly, Davana is so powerful you really need to be sure to not overdo

>it. Just a drop or two may be enough depending on the composition. So

>use it very light handedly (we all know it's easy to add drops, but

>impossible to take them out).

This might be one of the instances where a 10% dilution is necessary

to work with the product.

Anya McCoy

Anya's Garden of Natural Perfume http://anyasgarden.com

Artisan Natural Perfumers Guild http://artisannaturalperfumers.org

Natural Perfumers Community Group

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Becky <nocauseinme@...> wrote: > Myrhh just plain smells like

rubber to me, always, beginning to end.

Heehee! ) Myrrh always smelled like Jim Beam to me. Odd how we all

perceive things differently, isn't it? Makes me wonder how people will

perceive my perfumes . . . . >

I know, I made a blend, and put some on my arm to test. To me it was very

sweet, extremely floral, and totally feminine(I made it for a woman). I had one

of my female coworkers smell it on my arm and she told me that it " smelled

" different " , like the woods, like a man-in-the- woods type smell " . Say what!?!

That also reminded me of a discussion that we had here of how any kind of

fragrance smells " masculine " or " feminine " depending on the sex wearing it.

I I kono

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