Biggest Mistake So Far

[Scooter]

Linalyl acetate to linalool. Lavandins are sterile lavender hybrids

I have no idea what that means but I think it is so cool. And this is what I like about the forum... I always have something to research and think more about. Thanks!

 

[cherrycoke216]

That is a gorgeous brown, though!

Does it smell like lavender at all? I do not like lavender, it smells very chemical to me. (I am one of those people that jasmine smells like cat pee.)

You have a great nose!!!
Pure Indol does exist in fecal and pee! ( and coal tar, too! ) I wonder does pine tar contain Indol ?
If I recall correctly, jasmine contains like a whole lot less Indol than public toilet.

http://perfumeshrine.blogspot.tw/2010/05/jasmine-indolic-vs-non-indolic.html?m=1




http://www.fragrantica.com/board/viewtopic.php?id=40737

See post 1 & 7 & 11 (haven't finished others)

 

[Susie]

You have a great nose!!!
Pure Indol does exist in fecal and pee! ( and coal tar, too! ) I wonder does pine tar contain Indol ?
If I recall correctly, jasmine contains like a whole lot less Indol than public toilet.

http://perfumeshrine.blogspot.tw/2010/05/jasmine-indolic-vs-non-indolic.html?m=1




http://www.fragrantica.com/board/viewtopic.php?id=40737

See post 1 & 7 & 11 (haven't finished others)

But gardenia, orange blossoms, mimose, and honeysuckle (the real flowers, not the fake stuff) smell heavenly. While jasmine, tuberose, and ylang ylang smell so specifically of cat urine (not human!), as opposed to fecal. I am a nurse, so I have smelled plenty of both.

 

[earlene]

Susie, I love tuberose! But I have noticed that some flowers can smell good for only a short time, especially when cut, then in a day or less in water, the odor becomes quite intolerable. It's too bad this happens as unless I have those flowers actually growing around my house, I just can't enjoy them in my home.

Freesia is one I used to like fresh, but cut in water, it quickly became an offender. I pretty much just stopped buying cut flowers because of the change in how they smell once they sit in water.

 

[cherrycoke216]

But gardenia, orange blossoms, mimose, and honeysuckle (the real flowers, not the fake stuff) smell heavenly. While jasmine, tuberose, and ylang ylang smell so specifically of cat urine (not human!), as opposed to fecal. I am a nurse, so I have smelled plenty of both.

I have only smell gardenia, jasmine and tuberose real flowers. Orange blossom EO, and other flowers you named FO. White flower generally is my thing. Mimosa, rose ( love absolute, don't like steam distilled EO ; and also younger, lighter version FO) so I guess everyone has different taste.
Ylang ylang EO is quite loud, only tried blends with it.
But I don't know what cat pee smell like.

And I google some other sites using keyword " Indol, pee,& fecal"

https://books.google.com.tw/books?i...D#v=onepage&q=indol fecal pee jasmine&f=false

P.43-45
Para-cresyl acetate: urine like note.
Para-cresyl phenol acetate: reminiscent of both fecal and urine.
And other chemical compounds have human excrement note. Ambergris, African geranium oil, carrot seed oil, orris concrete, amberette seed oil, labdanum, terpeneless cypress oil.

Thank you for inspiring me do this funny search. You can be THE NOSE in perfume house. But first, you'll suffer a lot because all these popular ingredients.

IIRC, ambergris is whale intestines?
Human is so weird. And civet is also some animalistic smell.

www.basenotes.net/threads/279883-Why-do-people-say-indoles-smell-fecal

Post 2,4,22,23

 

[Millie]

Back in the Victorian days, when tinctures of civet anal glands were all the rage in perfume, tuberose was kept away from virginal maids for fear they might lose their innocence to spontaneous fits of, um... lower body pleasure

I love all things jasmine. Wonder now how many people think I smell like an outhouse. Or cat whiz. Oops!

 

[earlene]

Back in the Victorian days, when tinctures of civet anal glands were all the rage in perfume, tuberose was kept away from virginal maids for fear they might lose their innocence to spontaneous fits of, um... lower body pleasure

I love all things jasmine. Wonder now how many people think I smell like an outhouse. Or cat whiz. Oops!

No wonder I made my wedding bouquet out of tuberoses! And I thought it was just because I love the odor.

 

[cherrycoke216]

No wonder I made my wedding bouquet out of tuberoses! And I thought it was just because I love the odor.

Um... I thought aphrodisiac is for the male to smell...???!!! Guess I'm wrong.

Few years ago, a thread here someone point out a magazine survey and male likes vanilla. And some selling members even said that male tends to buy some light floral scented soaps.

Sorry brewer George for my digress :headbanging:

 

[Susie]

Aphrodisiacs are for either person to smell/eat/drink/whatever. They work only by the power of suggestion. You think you are eating/smelling/etc an aphrodisiac, and you act accordingly.