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Weirdly enough, Skunk!

Though, I'm sure I may change my tune if I ever got sprayed directly by one! It's a very nostalgic scent for me. Growing up in a small town and around a farm, there was frequently the scent of a skunk that had found a predator in the nearby woods or perhaps had met an unfortunate end from a vehicle.

The smell reminds me of road trips with my family. It's reminiscent of the cannabis I now partake in, but it's definately got it's own thing going on.

As for how to describe it to someone without the sense of smell... Skunk smells heavy and pungent as it tingles your nose with the sharper parts it's scent. The initial smell could feel like a literal punch to the gut, taking your breath away, but afterwards it smells like something that could be described as nauseating.

But...I like it. It provokes such a strong reaction from those who smell it. It is the only thing you can smell when it's present and when i get a whiff of a skunk, I'm taken back to a simpler time back in my hometown.

I need to get some 'Skunk Essence' from a hunting shop to try tincturing it so i can try use it in my blends. But...I feel I'd have to dilute it while I'm in the middle of a field otherwise I would for sure stink out an entire town...

SKUNK!

what is your favorite smell + how would you describe it to someone who has no sense of smell?

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I was fortunate and extremely grateful that I recieved a very personal gift from someone to be used in my scent work (or whatever I'm doing is called). After I cleaned and prepared everything for mixing, I looked at my setup and thought it looked cool. I like seeing the materials mix together so I put a lil light behind it.

For the first several drops I just watched the translucent liquids swirl around each other. Before long, though, I had a steady stream going as I watched the two transparent liquids become cloudy.

The fats, proteins, and whatever cell debris was in the sample, separate and make it cloudy. I find it kinda peaceful to watch the cloudy blend seperate and sink to the bottom.

Ok, I'm gonna be honest, it's urine. Someone gave me their piss with the intention that it be used for my purposes. Some may see it only as piss, think it's gross or whatever and that's ok. Because it wasn't simply 'piss' I recieved from someone. It was uniquely theirs. And inside this gift is urea, salt, steroid compounds, fatty acids, and so much more! It's a snapshot of their body and there may not ever be the exact same composition of chemicals again! Also, I straight up find the smell arousing. I'm unsure why, but it really gets my blood pumping. It smells salty, sharp, pungent. Maybe it's because it's part of the scent one gets when performing cunnilingus? Whatever the reason, I wanted to isolate that scent (and the feelings it evokes in me) to see if I can make it shine in other blends. Only for personal use, of course. For meditation and magick, not marketing to the masses.

Anyways! I'm very pumped to have this one completed in a few weeks! I got blends to try out!

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I had a nice quiet time blending fragrances last night.

I enjoy exploring the scents in my collection, smelling a few that jumped out to me tonight. There were a little portion of memories in a few of them. Sometimes fragrances need to be combined with one another to give off a certain feeling. I find smelling something and being taken back at to a specific moment in time to be quite surreal and finding my way towards that scent feels like I'm digging through lost parts of my own mind. I suppose on some level, that is what's happening. An initial scent, triggering something that's not quite a memory. Almost imaginable but like… "right on the tip of my tongue" so to speak. So I chase it, seeing where it leads me and where I want to go!

It's quiet, methodical, compelling, and some fourth thing I can't think of at the moment. Carefully adding drops of powerful scents to a tiny jar takes so much of my concentration. I drop in each ingredient with intent and care. Not just because cleaning up a spilled fragrance is very unfun, but it makes the blend personal. And when I say that, I mean that time and effort was deliberately spent on this task, making me invested in it.

When I blend, instead of the strokes of a brush it feels like building a scene in my mind, each new drop layering more detail within the scent. I would call it perfumery, but many of my finished fragrances (or ingredients) aren't necessarily made to be palatable or pleasing to anyone but myself. Example below;

I'm not sure what else to call it other than scent blending or alternative perfumery or something. I haven't met anyone else who does this as a hobby, spell work, or meditation yet.

Fun as heck, though.

If anyone does this or has questions, my asks are open!

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Fuck, that's sounds awesome!

let me experience you in a completely raw and unfiltered way and get lost in it.

having a scent kink is so intimate.

let me bury my face in your neck and let me smell.

let me smell the shampoo on your hair.

let me breathe in your natural scent.

let me bury my face in between your legs so i can smell your most pure scent.

let me smell under your arms after a workout.

let me sit on my knees while you piss on me, marking me in your own scent.

just let me get high on your intoxicating scent.

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ASMR with Scent

I see, when searching for it, that ASMR videos are quite popular! That tingly feeling, evoked by a sound, is so addicting. Its crazy what sound can do to the body. It can make it physically respond, relax your mind, or have it taken to a different place through music or a good story teller or something. Its an interesting phenomenon to say the least.

That amazing feeling is limited to visual, though! Being able to be taken to a different place in your mind can be achieved through scent as well. Yes, scent is the biggest trigger for memory. But exploring it can take your mind to places it never thought it could. Like a deeply buried memory that only surfaced because your mind wandered to it. I don't believe that you can bring these thoughts up passively, they are explored or triggered. Fragrance blending, for me, is the exploration of memories I know, the discovery of one's I have forgotten, and the manifestation of thoughts that have yet to exist.

I often think, if music or reading can take your mind to new, far off places, then scent can too. Perfume is meant to attract and to evoke targeted emotions. I just find that they all mostly target similar emotions (not a slight on the perfume industry, they do their job well). Meditating with a crafted scent can assist in exploring new areas of yourself or evoke a desired emotion. Many do this all the time, using commonly found essential oils (like lavender or rose) in a diffuser to help the mind feel a certain way. The purpose of the scents I blend are similar but directed towards other purposes.