Comments on: Interview with the Interviewer http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/ A monster perfume habit. On a rampage... with a wanton waft of sillage in its wake. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:53:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Scentzilla! http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2736 Scentzilla! Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:35:01 +0000 http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2736 Chaya, oh my! I can honestly say I didn't expect that reaction to the pictures, heh! And glad you enjoyed the interview :) Chaya, oh my! I can honestly say I didn’t expect that reaction to the pictures, heh!

And glad you enjoyed the interview :)

]]> By: chayaruchama http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2734 chayaruchama Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:31:50 +0000 http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2734 Katie- I LOVED it...and O's detailed information. What I REALLY, really want- is to woo this old guy here, Mr. Hot-Stuff Kerleo ! Right up my alley...oops ! Katie-
I LOVED it…and O’s detailed information.
What I REALLY, really want- is to woo this old guy here, Mr. Hot-Stuff Kerleo !
Right up my alley…oops !

]]> By: Scentzilla! http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2716 Scentzilla! Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:23:43 +0000 http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2716 Thanks Robin and Patty, glad you thought it was enjoyable :) Thanks Robin and Patty, glad you thought it was enjoyable :)

]]> By: Patty http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2702 Patty Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:30:59 +0000 http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2702 Such a great interview, thank you to you and Susan for sharing this! Such a great interview, thank you to you and Susan for sharing this!

]]> By: Robin http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2696 Robin Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:19:12 +0000 http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2696 Fascinating, K, thanks!! Fascinating, K, thanks!!

]]> By: Anya http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2695 Anya Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:58:24 +0000 http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2695 Ha -- glad you enjoyed the NorthWET, I'll bet it's very, very appropriate right now with all the storms you've been having. Ah, all my iris experiments, someday I will waft them out upon the world, synth-free and wild and crazy, as I find the aroma. I have a huge tincture of 20 year old root that is greasy floral dirt in a jar. Yum! On wine and scent: one of the members of my group recently wrote a boozy ode to a artisanal Santa Cruz Pinot Noir that was so inspiring I went and ordered a case, kind of like the perfumista who orders a perfume unsniffed, I got swept away in the description of jas grandi, cedar, muguet, lilac, tobacco, soil, etc. I'll send you the post privately, it's a lot of fun. There's only 180 cases or so of the 2002 vintage left, so I couldn't resist to urge to stash something that may never come around again, like the --- well, like the hundreds of perfumes we long after, scouring Ebay and such. Ha — glad you enjoyed the NorthWET, I’ll bet it’s very, very appropriate right now with all the storms you’ve been having.

Ah, all my iris experiments, someday I will waft them out upon the world, synth-free and wild and crazy, as I find the aroma. I have a huge tincture of 20 year old root that is greasy floral dirt in a jar. Yum!

On wine and scent: one of the members of my group recently wrote a boozy ode to a artisanal Santa Cruz Pinot Noir that was so inspiring I went and ordered a case, kind of like the perfumista who orders a perfume unsniffed, I got swept away in the description of jas grandi, cedar, muguet, lilac, tobacco, soil, etc. I’ll send you the post privately, it’s a lot of fun. There’s only 180 cases or so of the 2002 vintage left, so I couldn’t resist to urge to stash something that may never come around again, like the — well, like the hundreds of perfumes we long after, scouring Ebay and such.

]]> By: Tania http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2680 Tania Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:51:16 +0000 http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2680 Ha! OK, I was fabricatin'. It wasn't 2-buck Chuck. It was some Frenchy thing, because my Brooklyn friend is what you might call "horribly refined," but I don't know crap about French wine so I said 2-buck Chuck. As for what makes A+B=C in perfumery, that's not science. That's art. It's not that the chemicals perform some magic interaction in the vial. It's that at some point, green+blue=my favorite shade in thte spectrum. Fear not, for nobody understands that, they're just glad it works. :) Ha! OK, I was fabricatin’. It wasn’t 2-buck Chuck. It was some Frenchy thing, because my Brooklyn friend is what you might call “horribly refined,” but I don’t know crap about French wine so I said 2-buck Chuck.

As for what makes A+B=C in perfumery, that’s not science. That’s art. It’s not that the chemicals perform some magic interaction in the vial. It’s that at some point, green+blue=my favorite shade in thte spectrum. Fear not, for nobody understands that, they’re just glad it works. :)

]]> By: Scentzilla! http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2679 Scentzilla! Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:18:05 +0000 http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2679 It's the alchemy of x+y=IG that eludes me: why adding one to this other would become IG-like. I think it's stubborness that keeps me from understanding aromachemicals and how they interact with one another, really. Which is less than ambitious mentally, sadly enough. *cries* Oh dear, may I recommend Rex Goliath? Here in Portland, two-buck Chuck costs three dollars, but the Rex Goliath is only four and it's <i>potable</i>. I swear, I'm not a terrible wine snob, but my nose and my tongue cannot take the two-buck Chuck. Hopefully the same cost ratio applies on the other coast? Rememer that first season episode of the Simpsons where Bart goes on a foreign exchange student trip to France, and his "hosts" make wine with anti-freeze? Two-buck Chuck is how I imagine that cartoon wine to taste. (And I've now just offended everyone and their dog, haven't I?) It’s the alchemy of x+y=IG that eludes me: why adding one to this other would become IG-like. I think it’s stubborness that keeps me from understanding aromachemicals and how they interact with one another, really. Which is less than ambitious mentally, sadly enough.

*cries* Oh dear, may I recommend Rex Goliath? Here in Portland, two-buck Chuck costs three dollars, but the Rex Goliath is only four and it’s potable. I swear, I’m not a terrible wine snob, but my nose and my tongue cannot take the two-buck Chuck. Hopefully the same cost ratio applies on the other coast? Rememer that first season episode of the Simpsons where Bart goes on a foreign exchange student trip to France, and his “hosts” make wine with anti-freeze? Two-buck Chuck is how I imagine that cartoon wine to taste. (And I’ve now just offended everyone and their dog, haven’t I?)

]]> By: Tania http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2676 Tania Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:54:29 +0000 http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2676 Katie, the technical details were as follows: spray some Iris Silver Mist into a vial, having already wasted some perfectly good real orris tincture on last effort and deciding to tell it to go to hell, you'll use the fake up. Get a pipette. Open a jar of peach undecalactone. Using pipette, transfer one drop of peach to the ISM. Close vial and shake. Smell. No Iris Gris? Repeat, being sure to drink between trials. The wine, I believe, was that exquisite varietal known as Two Buck Chuck. Katie, the technical details were as follows: spray some Iris Silver Mist into a vial, having already wasted some perfectly good real orris tincture on last effort and deciding to tell it to go to hell, you’ll use the fake up. Get a pipette. Open a jar of peach undecalactone. Using pipette, transfer one drop of peach to the ISM. Close vial and shake. Smell. No Iris Gris? Repeat, being sure to drink between trials.

The wine, I believe, was that exquisite varietal known as Two Buck Chuck.

]]> By: Scentzilla! http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2675 Scentzilla! Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:12:00 +0000 http://scentzilla.com/2006/12/16/interview-with-an-interviewer/#comment-2675 T - oh, I like that. Yes, very raisin like, even texture-wise there's something moist and chewy about the fragrance of IG. I love that you guys drinky-drinky and experiment with all those perfumes and aroma chemicals. It sure beats sitting around and watching some lame movie rental in the evening! What kind of wine? If one must match wine to perfume, I think IG needs a nice full cabernet or a syrah. If one must, that is ;-P I don't recall you telling this story to me, so thank you, heh. Deja vu or not, that's very intriguing. Wish I could grasp the technical details of your experiment. T - oh, I like that. Yes, very raisin like, even texture-wise there’s something moist and chewy about the fragrance of IG. I love that you guys drinky-drinky and experiment with all those perfumes and aroma chemicals. It sure beats sitting around and watching some lame movie rental in the evening! What kind of wine? If one must match wine to perfume, I think IG needs a nice full cabernet or a syrah. If one must, that is ;-P

I don’t recall you telling this story to me, so thank you, heh. Deja vu or not, that’s very intriguing. Wish I could grasp the technical details of your experiment.

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