(part of the reason I'm following the comm. is to try to get more of a feel for scents by seeing how other people talk about them!)

This is very similar to what I'm doing. I've been reading the various perfume posts going around DW these past few weeks, and I'm just ... well, boggled. Boggled by how some people can describe a scent - fascination-boggled, I have to say, because some of those descriptions make my writing brain weep with envy - and equally boggled by how people can pick out SO MANY NOTES. I keep telling myself that it's a learning process just like I learned to do logic puzzles or do CSS or any other variety of things. There will eventually come a moment where I say OH THAT'S WHAT THAT DOES. XD