help identify mystery scent

[the13bats]

My laundry thread got this back into my thinking,

I just turned 60 and since early childhood have from time to time noticed a very pleasant to me scent in the air, ive never been able to identify it, i even worked in a friends botanical in hopes of finding it but came up empty, i seem to have smelled it more in my younger days, last time i caught it was a few months ago at an Asian Buffett of all places, i thought someone was wearing it, but zero luck there, i never thought until lately it could be a perfume but it didnt have a synthetic smell to me.

I have no idea why but at a very young age i started calling it "Kashmir" to my grandmother who would say she smelled it too yet she never nailed it, she named honeysuckle, magnolias,  jasmine, she might have just been humoring me.

To try to descrbe a scent and who knows if things smell the same to people, but this is what i would call a bit earthy, smooth slightly sweet like vanilla, amber, sandalwood scents found in nag champa blends.Maybe a hint of cedar or patchouli but not so pungent like those tend to be,

The closest i came to replicating it was an amber cedar patchouli blend i created one off but it was only close to it.

 

[Ell]

Maybe it is the smell of the perfect mate: someone whose immune system is so radically different from yours that the combination of both would result in extremely disease resistant progeny.

[Abramelin]

32 minutes ago, the13bats said:

My laundry thread got this back into my thinking,

I just turned 60 and since early childhood have from time to time noticed a very pleasant to me scent in the air, ive never been able to identify it, i even worked in a friends botanical in hopes of finding it but came up empty, i seem to have smelled it more in my younger days, last time i caught it was a few months ago at an Asian Buffett of all places, i thought someone was wearing it, but zero luck there, i never thought until lately it could be a perfume but it didnt have a synthetic smell to me.

I have no idea why but at a very young age i started calling it "Kashmir" to my grandmother who would say she smelled it too yet she never nailed it, she named honeysuckle, magnolias,  jasmine, she might have just been humoring me.

To try to descrbe a scent and who knows if things smell the same to people, but this is what i would call a bit earthy, smooth slightly sweet like vanilla, amber, sandalwood scents found in nag champa blends.Maybe a hint of cedar or patchouli but not so pungent like those tend to be,

The closest i came to replicating it was an amber cedar patchouli blend i created one off but it was only close to it.

 

Maybe this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

[the13bats]

30 minutes ago, Abramelin said:

Maybe this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

I'll look a bit deeper into that possiblity, ive had people like my grandmother or a friend here or there claim to have smelled it too but i dont rule out humoring me or just bandwagen idea.

I found it very weird i didnt find it at my friends botanical yet its repetitive for me,

When i do smell either timing or location is off for trying to track it or it just vanishes as fast as i noticed it.

Who knows perhaps it is as love and rockets said, all in my mind.

[MissJatti]

Its someone or something call out to you.

Sometimes I can smell the scent of my motherland, I doesnt last long, but it is very pungent.

I always think my motherland is calling for my return

 

[Abramelin]

1 hour ago, the13bats said:

I'll look a bit deeper into that possiblity, ive had people like my grandmother or a friend here or there claim to have smelled it too but i dont rule out humoring me or just bandwagen idea.

I found it very weird i didnt find it at my friends botanical yet its repetitive for me,

When i do smell either timing or location is off for trying to track it or it just vanishes as fast as i noticed it.

Who knows perhaps it is as love and rockets said, all in my mind.

It's possible you were so persistent about you smelling something, that a few others started smelling it too, or just thought they did.

 

Maybe you should try to remember what typical shapes or sounds were around when you started smelling whatever you smelled.

[the13bats]

10 minutes ago, Abramelin said:

It's possible you were so persistent about you smelling something, that a few others started smelling it too, or just thought they did.

 

Maybe you should try to remember what typical shapes or sounds were around when you started smelling whatever you smelled.

You know, i like different viewpoints trying to solve a mystery i will grind harder on it when im crashing out, i seem to get livid memory when im drifting off,

For now, i cant think of any real shapes, last time i was at a asian Buffett it was busy and full of smells i was surprised i caught it then, another time i was flipping thru an old book but it wasnt the book, and once an old jewel box. No real connections

I do think i subscribe color to numbers, letters and shapes, just didnt realize it, my DJ program allows color coded artists, titles etc, no one can make heads or tails out of my system but its fine with my brain, hum.

[Abramelin]

1 hour ago, the13bats said:

I do think i subscribe color to numbers, letters and shapes, just didnt realize it, my DJ program allows color coded artists, titles etc, no one can make heads or tails out of my system but its fine with my brain, hum.

That sound a lot like synesthesia.

[+ouija ouija]

Cardamom?

[AZDZ]

Quote

 

2 Corinthians 2:15

But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him. 15For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life.

 

🤷‍♂️ Not a believer? Doesn't matter. We don't choose God, God chooses us.

[the13bats]

5 hours ago, AZDZ said:

🤷‍♂️ Not a believer? Doesn't matter. We don't choose God, God chooses us.

Okay, then you have God produce the smell for me in the next 24 hours,  Sure, if it happens it could be a coincidence but lets just see, or smell where that goes shall we.

[Lucia62]

16 hours ago, the13bats said:

My laundry thread got this back into my thinking,

I just turned 60 and since early childhood have from time to time noticed a very pleasant to me scent in the air, ive never been able to identify it, i even worked in a friends botanical in hopes of finding it but came up empty, i seem to have smelled it more in my younger days, last time i caught it was a few months ago at an Asian Buffett of all places, i thought someone was wearing it, but zero luck there, i never thought until lately it could be a perfume but it didnt have a synthetic smell to me.

I have no idea why but at a very young age i started calling it "Kashmir" to my grandmother who would say she smelled it too yet she never nailed it, she named honeysuckle, magnolias,  jasmine, she might have just been humoring me.

To try to descrbe a scent and who knows if things smell the same to people, but this is what i would call a bit earthy, smooth slightly sweet like vanilla, amber, sandalwood scents found in nag champa blends.Maybe a hint of cedar or patchouli but not so pungent like those tend to be,

The closest i came to replicating it was an amber cedar patchouli blend i created one off but it was only close to it.

 

When I was working, a lady had a perfume/cologne that I love so much that I had to ask her what it is. It is called Emeraude, made by Coty (launched in 1921). I copied which scents it contains,

amber

woody

citrus

balsamic

vanilla

sweet

warm spicy

powdery

aromatic

patchouli

 

 

[the13bats]

On 9/30/2024 at 10:00 AM, ouija ouija said:

Cardamom?

Thats not it but at times it drifts into the same area, i love cardamom in India food,

[the13bats]

On 9/30/2024 at 9:47 PM, Lucia62 said:

When I was working, a lady had a perfume/cologne that I love so much that I had to ask her what it is. It is called Emeraude, made by Coty (launched in 1921). I copied which scents it contains,

amber

woody

citrus

balsamic

vanilla

sweet

warm spicy

powdery

aromatic

patchouli

 

 

Very interesting, i was raised by my grandmother i was born in 64 and had slipped my mind in this situations possible connection, until just now, my grandmother wore emeraude from time to time enough i recall the name very well, so i would have though i would have smelled my scent more often or grandmother would have known what i was speaking of,

However, after seeing whats in it, its worse me finding where i can get a whiff, i really didnt think my mystery scent was a blend i seem pretty hypersensitive to blends, and natural vs synthetic in fact i won a 50 bet once picking real patchouli out of several fakes, the guy was floored, but that was 30 years ago, yikes.

I looked online said walgreens carries emeraude so i will find out soon, ty.

Oh, you said you copied it, did you do like your own version with essential oils? Did you use an alcohol,  oil orcwater base?

 

 

[jethrofloyd]

The smell of the 'old good times'. I smell it sometimes in the air, and miss it.

[Lucia62]

7 minutes ago, the13bats said:

Oh, you said you copied it, did you do like your own version with essential oils? Did you use an alcohol,  oil orcwater base?

 

 

My son got it for me from Amazon, but if Walgreens has it great. Good Luck 😀

[the13bats]

1 hour ago, Lucia62 said:

My son got it for me from Amazon, but if Walgreens has it great. Good Luck 😀

Sorry, i thought you meant you copied the scent you meant copied pasted ingredients.

[Lucia62]

Oh it's OK yes I copied ingredients.