Re: TOTD 010709: disliked base note

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> What is your most strongly disliked base note?

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none, it depends on the use

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> What is your most strongly disliked base note?

I love all my base notes. I kind of think that for my blend, the most

important note is the base note and relates to everyone so diferently!

I like to used each base note sort of like a human note depending on

the person's caracter and personality.

Angi

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Birch tar and choya nakh

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I would have to say that I like most base notes,  however, I'm having a hard

time feeling tobacco.  Hyrax is kind of weird too, musty and poopy.

What is your most strongly disliked base note?

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I thought tobacco would be like a nice sweet or rich 'pipe' tobacco. I did get

an fo that is called 'Santa's Pipe'......ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Its horrid.

but I have heard of people say they grew tobacco as a repellent in the yard and

said the plant is not unpleasant. I've grown Nicotiana which said 'exudes a

lovely hypnotic fragrance'.......not even once did I get a scent.........not

once.........pretty , looked cool in my garden but no smell.........

 

I 'visualize' scent....to me tobacco means a fine tweed jacket with the leather

rifle patch on the shoulder, a wing backed chair, mahogany library, rain falling

past a beveled lead glass window , fireplace and sweet solitude........there I

go......into fantasy land....or the plane I REALLY reside and this is simply my

nightmare heh heh.

 

evie

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> I'm having a hard time feeling tobacco. Hyrax is kind of weird

> too, musty and poopy.

Tobacco is one that has to have the right compatriots or it fails. I

think hay goes very well with it, vetiver too, though the three

together is a little much. I was just re-examining my hyrax today; at

first I found it to be exactly as you say but now, if I compare it to

some of the funky plant essences, I find it be intriguing.

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Tobacco is one that has to have the right compatriots or it fails. I

think hay goes very well with it, vetiver too, though the three

together is a little much. I was just re-examining my hyrax today; at

first I found it to be exactly as you say but now, if I compare it to

some of the funky plant essences, I find it be intriguing.

I remember you suggesting that I try tobacco and hay.  Maybe I havent' played

with tobacco enough.  I will have to try it with vetiver too. 

I haven't really played with hyrax at all, really, most of the animal notes

arent too great IMO in and of themselves, except I do like castoreum, and civit

is kind of nice when it mellows on the skin after a while, and ambergris is ok,

but everything that they say about what they do to a perfume is totally true-the

essences really give perfumes an " oomph " factor, while pulling the blend all

together and making it last longer.  They really are magical.

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I thought tobacco would be like a nice sweet or rich 'pipe' tobacco. I did get

an fo that is called 'Santa's Pipe'......ARGHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Its horrid.

but I have heard of people say they grew tobacco as a repellent in the yard and

said the plant is not unpleasant. I've grown Nicotiana which said 'exudes a

lovely hypnotic fragrance'.. .....not even once did I get a scent....... ..not

once........ .pretty , looked cool in my garden but no smell....... ..

I would try them again if I were you.  Maybe you just got the wrong variety. 

What color were they?  Like most flowers, the white varieties seem to be the

most strongly scented, but I grew some purple ones this summer(actually they

kind of popped up on their own) that were very highly scented.  Also, they are

fragrant starting at dusk and into the night.  Did you ever smell them around

that time?  I'm sure you will find a fragrant variety, most are.  The scent is

lovely, especially if you are outside in the early evening.  We had them in our

front yard, in front of the porch.  They eventually overcame all the other

plants and flowers in the bed!  They, along with the violet petunias, perfumed

the air.  I've often wondered if a absolute was or is ever available or

possible.  The scent reminds me of jasmine, or perhaps lillies.

 

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Maybe , I did have the white and the red. I smelled those things every time

of day. And I love a fragrant garden. Everything I raised had a scent........too

bad you can't get a good petunia scent, always thought that was a nice flower.

 

Didn't do so well with Gardenia's either.....I'm more the hearty herb and wild

flower grower tho I did love my soap plant.....or soap wort, varigated and in a

basket, wanted to do something with that too.....

 

Dianthus is another I adore.....why its so difficult to capture that is beyond

me as it is highly scented. i did well with herbs and for a bit with sweet grass

tho it needed a lot of attention due to the heat.

 

Fortunately one of the P.A.s that works with my husband has access to bedding

plants as a side business (another thing I wanted to do!) and I believe he said

for me to go to texas where he gets his plants, pick what I wanted next spring

and he'd get it for me. Violets are

rampant here. I forget to harvest the flowers...such a short season .

 

I do have some indian perfume aka cornmint that an elder came by and told me to

grind and make soap. It seems the seed is the beneficial 'medicine' as he calls

it tho the entire plant is also usable.

 

I had grand plans of doing a garden that was more of an 'extreme garden' as

opposed to 'extreme homes'.....the lay would would be in a crop circle pattern I

liked and then my touches......alas it was not to be.

 

I could live as a hobbit if I could LOL......but I do know where to get

sassafrass bark which I will this spring , early wild onions for the yearly wild

onion breakfasts .....yum......but now in town I am very limited.

 

So its pots for me this year. But I too recall sitting out early evening with a

zepher's breeze and scent emanating from various places and miss it so.. I would

love a patchouli plant and may have to order those and I could kick myself for

not taking advantage of mimosa. I did see on ebay mimosa seeds for soap.

 

Had I been soaping then, it is possible with what I had to have sold organic

lavender, sage, lemon balm, echinacea, anything with a bulb the squirrels got.

So I guess field trips are in order and I'll gather mimosa as well......can you

think of anything else to look for from old homesteads?  We have wild petunias.

They say they are annuals but I beg to differ in some cases....tho the scent is

not quite there. Borage, and 'blue eyed' grass.....gorgeous, yarrow, name it ,

it grows here. I've yet to find jewel weed. I had my medicinal herbs and then my

aromatherapy flowers and plants.

 

I could have sold many herbs for infusions but alas, I made medicines only. 

 

But I did purchase Nicotiana at walmart and the nursery. Loved the flavored

mints , wanted to have chamomile walk ways with mints, violets etc for erosion

purposes and insect control.

 

I think I'll do a search tonite. I'm a bit of an insomniac and since I joined

this board it feels like 'home'.....much passion and prose when we describe what

scents appeal to us...so much more than 'perfumery'.....I tend to believe

purposeful garden is an expression of our selves and so much more soulful that

jammed flowers in perfectly arranged confined 'deco' gardens. I like mine more

natural but most definately with purpose.

 

I'll wear my pretty amber oil and harvest away this coming spring....its been

too long!

What can I plant in limited space that is highly fragranced and able to be

infused ?

 

evie

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> What is your most strongly disliked base note?

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Patchouli. It smells like mildew to me. Yuck!

~B

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<Didn't do so well with Gardenia's either.....I' m more the hearty herb and wild

flower grower tho I did love my soap plant.....or soap wort, varigated and in a

basket, wanted to do something with that too.....>

Gardenias are hard.  Every one I've ever had gets aphids, gets yellow or dried

leaves which fall off, and then it croaks.

 

 

<Fortunately one of the P.A.s that works with my husband has access to bedding

plants as a side business (another thing I wanted to do!) and I believe he said

for me to go to texas where he gets his plants, pick what I wanted next spring

and he'd get it for me. Violets are

rampant here. I forget to harvest the flowers...such a short season . >

Violets are rampant here too-such a beautiful weed!   So thats why I never feel

too bad about pulling them out when I'm planting and I need the space-they will

just pop up somewhere else.   Unfortunately, the violets that grow around here

have no scent, so I don't even know what a real violet odor is.  Pretty though,

looks really nice with spring flowering bulbs.

 <I had grand plans of doing a garden that was more of an 'extreme garden' as

opposed to 'extreme homes'.....the lay would would be in a crop circle pattern I

liked and then my touches..... .alas it was not to be.>

That would have been really cool!   I've always had an idea, among others of

having a Halloween garden; black and orange, and some violet, plants and

flowers.  I just got Platt's book, Black Magic and Purple Passion, about

dark plants and flowers. What can I say, I'm a Hallowphile.  Like Ministry

said;everyday is Halloween!

 

<I could live as a hobbit if I could LOL......but I do know where to get

sassafrass bark which I will this spring , early wild onions for the yearly wild

onion breakfasts .....yum.... ..but now in town I am very limited. >

At the Flower and Garden show a few years ago, they had a hobbit " hole " .   This

was around the time that the " Lord Of  The Rings " movie came out.  I think the

hobbits live in great little homes,  I think very ecological as well.

 

 

<So I guess field trips are in order and I'll gather mimosa as well......can

you think of anything else to look for from old homesteads? >

Where do you live?   Mimosa certainly doesnt grow around here.  Hmmm old

homesteads, I don't know.  

 

<....I tend to believe purposeful garden is an expression of our selves and so

much more soulful that jammed flowers in perfectly arranged confined 'deco'

gardens. I like mine more natural but most definately with purpose.>

That is a very early settler mindset; they only grew what was useful.  I

think I " m the opposite, I only grow things for the way they look and smellLOL !

Seriously, I'm more into ornamentals, I like to grow for color, form, and

scent,  I don't really harvest too much, except for maybe some things for teas

or cooking,  I'm not that homemade.  And I'm a total design and art freak, so

I'm very much into the design of a garden, and sometimes I get an idea for a

" theme' garden, like the Halloween idea I mentioned before.

 

<What can I plant in limited space that is highly fragranced and able to be

infused ?>

Hmmm I dont' really have that much experience infusing fresh plants, maybe

others can chime in?   I think someone here was infusing bluebells and

hyacinths(love them).