Not sure if this warrants a separate post, so I'm throwing it out here:
Something I'm struggling with as I try to write reviews for scents to post here is that... I don't know the common vocabulary for scent-notes, is I guess the best way to put it. Like there are common "themes" in scents that I recognize, but I don't know if there are common terms for them (like with wines you can talk about "dry" and "sweet" even though those words don't exactly mean what they do in the general usage). So I can go, "Oh, this is a THAT KIND of scent" but I don't have a good way of explaining it for review purposes.
Anyone else having this trouble? Are there guides for this sort of thing? I have lots of write-ups of scents (oh BPAL, you and your frimps!) that I'm holding back on posting because I'm not sure if they're actually intelligible to anyone but me.
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Something I'm struggling with as I try to write reviews for scents to post here is that... I don't know the common vocabulary for scent-notes, is I guess the best way to put it. Like there are common "themes" in scents that I recognize, but I don't know if there are common terms for them (like with wines you can talk about "dry" and "sweet" even though those words don't exactly mean what they do in the general usage). So I can go, "Oh, this is a THAT KIND of scent" but I don't have a good way of explaining it for review purposes.
Anyone else having this trouble? Are there guides for this sort of thing? I have lots of write-ups of scents (oh BPAL, you and your frimps!) that I'm holding back on posting because I'm not sure if they're actually intelligible to anyone but me.