what Syne said re: reviews. If you find them useful, then someone else will too!
as far as vocabulary, really, the thing to realise is it's ALL kind of ridiculous and arbitrary. if you have an association or it reminds you of something, that's basically HOW the vocabulary of scent or taste or whatever else gets built. if you want, you can keep poking at the "standard" vocabulary until you figure what the standard codes mean specifically to you personally, but your own idiosyncractic vocabulary is just as good and useful, maybe even more so if it's evocative for you.
i mean, i'm not as practiced at scent myself either -- i'm more familiar with wine, but a lot of the same principles apply. :)
anyhow! you and had similar reactions to Little Sister and to Gatekeeper both. Gatekeeper wanted to be interesting, but really was awful on me.
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as far as vocabulary, really, the thing to realise is it's ALL kind of ridiculous and arbitrary. if you have an association or it reminds you of something, that's basically HOW the vocabulary of scent or taste or whatever else gets built. if you want, you can keep poking at the "standard" vocabulary until you figure what the standard codes mean specifically to you personally, but your own idiosyncractic vocabulary is just as good and useful, maybe even more so if it's evocative for you.
i mean, i'm not as practiced at scent myself either -- i'm more familiar with wine, but a lot of the same principles apply. :)
anyhow! you and had similar reactions to Little Sister and to Gatekeeper both. Gatekeeper wanted to be interesting, but really was awful on me.