tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post8177715365008572286..comments2023-10-30T00:51:36.361-11:00Comments on Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman: Giving away the scent of HeavenExmoorjanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-81018170605351900412011-05-20T22:09:22.428-11:002011-05-20T22:09:22.428-11:00HUGE thanks to everyone who commented and entered ...HUGE thanks to everyone who commented and entered the comp... I finally decided that the prize was too gorgeous to give to just one of you so it was split and Viv, Preseli Mags, Tiger Princess and Posie will each get some ila loveliness. So sorry I couldn't send some to all of you... :(Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-91047734936953863622011-05-19T12:05:31.991-11:002011-05-19T12:05:31.991-11:00I know the competition is now closed (I was too ti...I know the competition is now closed (I was too tired to think last night), but I will say what my favourite smell is: earth.<br /><br />I have toyed with all the favourites like freshly mown grass, air-dried cotton sheets and they are marvellouly evocative. So too is the drifting, oh so subtle scent of plane trees on a warm spring or summer evening (whether I smell them on the streets of London or abroad, I am immediately transported to a place that feels like pure holiday). <br /><br />But having said all that, it is the sweet, musky, damp smell of earth as I weed and dig and pot and plant which is the essence of this life for me.<br /><br />PS: have to agree with the lady who hated 'Poison'. It is, indeed, utterly poisonous.<br />xCarah Bodenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11429666157453439321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-50725497816221622392011-05-18T22:07:31.244-11:002011-05-18T22:07:31.244-11:00Huge thanks to everyone who entered - and once aga...Huge thanks to everyone who entered - and once again I'm sorry Blogger screwed up so royally (I think I caught all the entries).<br /><br />THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. I shall pluck a fragrant person from the pub opposite and pick a winner, come opening time. :)Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-6703446995633993792011-05-17T11:22:54.383-11:002011-05-17T11:22:54.383-11:00it has to be wet salty pooch!!! i know that sounds...it has to be wet salty pooch!!! i know that sounds rather strange,but that smell always reminds of camping holidays in cornwall,crabbing lines,and my wonderful dogs(there were many when i was growing up and still have pooches now, who rule the house!)trying to catch crabs and prancing and barking at the waves.smells to bring happiness to the soul=wet salty dog!!teresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15555721674074305291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-75132851492499009202011-05-16T05:13:27.679-11:002011-05-16T05:13:27.679-11:00Leela Soma has left a new comment on your post &qu...Leela Soma has left a new comment on your post "Giving away the scent<br />of Heaven":<br /><br />I would opt for jasmine every time. I grew up in India and am now a<br />Scot, living in Glasgow. I still remember wearing real jasmine flowers<br />in my hair. The perfume of fresh jasmine is unforgettable. The little<br />white flowers were strung on banana tree fibres so deftly made by the<br />flower sellers. We wore the tiny strands in our plaited hair. Sometimes<br />we feel asleep with the flowers,and woke up in the morning to find the<br />pillows covered with faded brown flowers but the perfume was still<br />there. The bottled ones can never match that fresh smell but I am happy<br />to settle for any jar of jasmine based perfume. btw Lovely blog.<br /><br /><br /><br />Posted by Leela Soma to Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman at 12 May<br />2011 01:21Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-73106826686347018812011-05-16T05:13:07.717-11:002011-05-16T05:13:07.717-11:00Ma.Ste. has left a new comment on your post "...Ma.Ste. has left a new comment on your post "Giving away the scent of<br />Heaven":<br /><br />36,022... :o)<br /><br /><br /><br />Posted by Ma.Ste. to Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman at 12 May 2011<br />01:38Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-22833667659582810512011-05-16T05:12:32.141-11:002011-05-16T05:12:32.141-11:00English Mum has left a new comment on your post &q...English Mum has left a new comment on your post "Giving away the scent<br />of Heaven":<br /><br />Ooh how gorgeous. My Dad is a perfumer (well, he was when I was<br />younger, sadly he's lost his *nose* due to a cricket accident - he's<br />not actually lost his nose... oh you know what I mean.)<br /><br />This means I grew up visiting him at work and being allowed to pick ANY<br />bottle off the enormous bank of shelves full of little glass phials to<br />have a sniff (I remember laughing after smelling civet because it was<br />so disgusting). He made me my own perfume that smelt of blossoms and<br />baby powder. If I close my eyes I can still imagine sniffing the bottle<br />now.<br /><br />In my teens it was Guerlain's Shalimar that entranced me - I thought it<br />was grown up and sophisticated - and now it's food that enslaves my<br />sense of smell: freshly baked bread, juicy pineapple and the scent of<br />basil and mint...<br /><br />Oh I could go on, but I'll shut up now.<br /><br /><br /><br />Posted by English Mum to Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman at 12 May<br />2011 01:33Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-89257334679142866762011-05-16T05:11:58.669-11:002011-05-16T05:11:58.669-11:00Lorraine has left a new comment on your post "...Lorraine has left a new comment on your post "Giving away the scent of<br />Heaven":<br /><br />With me it is Rose and Lavender; both make me think of my gran. Not<br />only did she always smell of it, but when she died, she often came to<br />me and it was the smell that identified her presence and let me know<br />she was around. I can't smell either now without warm, loving thought<br />being conjured up.<br />It was gran who showed us to pick the petals off the ground and put<br />them in a jar of water to infuse. Beautiful smell. Sadly, so many roses<br />don't have a scent these days.<br /><br /><br /><br />Posted by Lorraine to Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman at 12 May 2011<br />01:13Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-36450974303133661472011-05-16T05:11:24.338-11:002011-05-16T05:11:24.338-11:00Lou has left a new comment on your post "Givi...Lou has left a new comment on your post "Giving away the scent of<br />Heaven":<br /><br />Ysatis by Givenchy is the most evocotive smell; of my first holiday<br />with the Hubby in Portugal 1993'ish. When I smell it every lovely<br />memory floods back....<br /><br />Long before I met him my hubby worked for Cartier.... today I found a<br />sample bottle of Must de Cartier. It must be 30 years old... I opened<br />it and IT. IS. GORGEOUS. I promise. Guides honour.... wearing it now...<br /><br />Please, ... pick me... if only to stop me from wearing 30 year old<br />perfume<br /><br /><br /><br />Posted by Lou to Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman at 12 May 2011 06:00Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-74038501954456095552011-05-16T05:10:56.634-11:002011-05-16T05:10:56.634-11:00trisha has left a new comment on your post "G...trisha has left a new comment on your post "Giving away the scent of<br />Heaven":<br /><br />Living in an old school house on exmoor (similar temperature to the<br />bonkers house)I love citrus smells - especially lemon, it reminds me of<br />sunshine, youth, carefree holidays, greek Islands, picking fresh<br />lemons, scrapping the surface and inhaling.... pure summer, off now to<br />have a steamy bath you guessed scented with lemon! Tired limbs need<br />refreshing!<br /><br /><br /><br />Posted by trisha to Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman at 12 May 2011<br />07:43Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-28785465812189721902011-05-16T05:10:10.413-11:002011-05-16T05:10:10.413-11:00Mrs Jones has left a new comment on your post &quo...Mrs Jones has left a new comment on your post "Giving away the scent of<br />Heaven":<br /><br />I'm short sighted and my hearing's not great due to years of gigging,<br />but my sense of smell has always been razor sharp. The smell of mown<br />grass is one of my favourites and always has been. When I was a young<br />child I used to adore the smell of petrol, fresh tarmac and<br />just-extinguished match heads. Summer smells of the spicy honeysuckle<br />that grows outside my door and there's nothing quite like a rain shower<br />on hot concrete. The smell of fresh ginger and lime when cooking can<br />send me into raptures. I react strongly to scent - 'Poison' turns my<br />stomach and will literally make me heave, but l'Occitane products smell<br />divine. Jasmine smells like blocked drains to me (sorry, Viv!)<br /><br /><br /><br />Posted by Mrs Jones to Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman at 12 May 2011<br />07:55Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-3087688238994862402011-05-16T04:06:26.043-11:002011-05-16T04:06:26.043-11:00Chanel No5, always reminds me of my childhood. Mum...Chanel No5, always reminds me of my childhood. Mum used to have a big bottle of it on her dressing table,my sister and I fought over who would get the empty bottle when it was done.<br /><br />I just have to smell it to remember lying with my head on my mum's lap watching clouds floating by on family picnics.Meer For Beerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06491541613823327962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-76962452866896599042011-05-15T23:48:28.797-11:002011-05-15T23:48:28.797-11:00The sweet scent of my little girls' hair when ...The sweet scent of my little girls' hair when they were babies. So pure and natural, fresh and innocent.<br /><br />5 and 6 years on, it is full of knots, breakfast cereal and on one occasion LICE, Yuck!<br /><br />I love how they have grown up into beautiful little girls with very different personalities, but oh how I wish I could bottle that memory.<br />Julie Christian twitter@ThreeAcresAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-86375995745357053772011-05-15T10:31:29.544-11:002011-05-15T10:31:29.544-11:00Huge thanks for your comments. I'm going to tr...Huge thanks for your comments. I'm going to try to retrieve the original ones and post here too...<br />jxExmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-79010614909773149872011-05-15T00:32:01.212-11:002011-05-15T00:32:01.212-11:00I was nodding all the way through this blog and im...I was nodding all the way through this blog and imagine my surprise to find that one of my favourite books is written by Jane!<br /><br />As I said on FB - my family all have their own distinct smells: TOH smells of the sea - proper salt and fresh air smell... PT has a sweet fizzy smell, like Loveheart sweets... and my son is earthy and tree-like - although he's now going through puberty and his normal scent is getting covered by what I call "teenage boy". I'm going to ban Lynx from the house! <br /><br />My favourite scents are all plants & flowers - Rose, Jasmine, Lavender. I also love White Musk (which is a plant, not a deer like traditional Musk)and Citrus - Lime, Lemon, Orange, Grapefruit - but my absolute favourite scent is the air by the sea... it soothes me like nothing else.Tiger Princesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07874879611236328291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-66896508464764169152011-05-14T12:21:21.442-11:002011-05-14T12:21:21.442-11:00My favourite scents are definetely citrus - remind...My favourite scents are definetely citrus - remind me of summer, much needed here on Exmoor as the temperature of the school house we live in minics the bonkers house. Citrus smells remind me of summer days, summer holidays, beaches, long days, picking lemons and running your nail over the skin and inhale pure freshness.<br />Beautiful in a hot bath to revive aching limbs, Happy times - great for doggies too!Trishahttp://www.exmoorfitness.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-2165127158171200742011-05-14T11:19:01.799-11:002011-05-14T11:19:01.799-11:00Shame about the Blogger thing this week :(
Althou...Shame about the Blogger thing this week :(<br /><br />Although I said about my favourite citrus oils on the original comment - mandarin because it's the safest, grapefruit because it reminds me of Florida (caution with other meds though) and bergamot for stress relief - today I'm experimenting with using rose absolut oil on a keloid scar, which I occasionally get. A few years ago I put neat rose oil on a callus I'd developed from the way I hold a pen when writing - after one week, twice a day, the whole thing peeled off and hasn't come back. Aromatherapy can do magic, and is also potent!Lisa Scullardhttp://voodoo-spice.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-69465715517446152092011-05-14T05:25:22.215-11:002011-05-14T05:25:22.215-11:00Mine would be a toss up between rose and jasmine.
...Mine would be a toss up between rose and jasmine.<br />When I was a kid on the very rare occasions we went north to visit grandparents, I used to potter around my nan's garden and dead head roses for her. She had some that were old fashioned damask type roses. Burying your face in these moplike blooms was like being wrapped in deep crimson velvet with an overwhelming and delightful fragrance. I tried repeatedly to make rosewater and failed. It's a very maternal scent to me.<br />The other is jasmine. I used to use a jasmine fragrance from Culpeper when I was a student, and courting and then newly married. The scent is to me tied in with being young and discovering my inner temptress. Sadly, the perfume was discontinued years ago when Culpeper went under and was bought out. I still use pure jasmine mixed with jojoba oil in my hair and on my skin for the same effect<br />But I miss that perfume. Even the lovely Jasmine from L'occitane isn't quite up the same standard.<br />Two scents from opposite ends of the feminine spectrum, the mother and then the siren.<br />VivAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-70977398131749707272011-05-14T00:28:26.437-11:002011-05-14T00:28:26.437-11:00blogger must have chewed up and spat out my previo...blogger must have chewed up and spat out my previous comment....so I am scribbling my post again.....<br />Loved reading the sanskrit for Ila Jane as it is also the Gaelic name for this island and crops up in several place names and has its roots in a well known malt whisky which has a gorgeous peaty smell.<br />However my ultimate scent has got to be bog myrtle, found on the heather clad hills here and in the boggy ground. It has a lovely sweet, herby fragrance which lifts the soul and brings back memories of trudging grudgingly and unwillingly up hills trying to keep apace with my ever enthusiastic parents, the sweet heady scent of the bog myrtle would help ease the pain and lift the spirit somewhat.<br />Years later when I was living in the concrete jungle of the city I collected a parcel from the post office to find an overnight bag filled with bog myrtle and a plane ticket from the happy farmer the scent of which immediately transported me to the peat bogs and wilderness of an island far away.Posiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12844732200803572416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-62729309260994414862011-05-14T00:19:00.667-11:002011-05-14T00:19:00.667-11:00Cliched but true, I love the crisp freshness of be...Cliched but true, I love the crisp freshness of bed linen that has been dried outside.<br /><br />All that blowing about in the wind gives laundry an indefinable 'outside' sort of smell that makes sliding beneath the duvet such a sensual pleasure.<br /><br />Loooooove it!<br /><br />Ali xAlison Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06565962059926865121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-33998656392438421222011-05-13T20:58:15.133-11:002011-05-13T20:58:15.133-11:00So where have all the other lovely comments gone? ...So where have all the other lovely comments gone? Were they victims of the Blogger crash?<br /><br />I tried to post this yesterday but failed (bad Blogger!) So I'm having another go.<br /><br />My favourite scent of all time was found in the lovely smooth skin behind my lovely big horse's ears. I wished I could have bottled that! Failing that I love the smell of neroli, such a happy, soothing scent.Maggie Christiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16047691937064748860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-80366546672250314082011-05-12T07:13:06.683-11:002011-05-12T07:13:06.683-11:00@Mrs Jones, not to worry. Some jasmine oils have a...@Mrs Jones, not to worry. Some jasmine oils have a distinct edge of cow manure to me too but then I like cows.<br />L'occitane do a very lovely jasmine perfume at a huge price tag. In that range they do neroli(got it as Christmas present) jasmine(travel size, got it too) labdanum(sample) cedar, iris, mimosa. I can never make up my mind which I like most, hence I have a perpetual list.... <br />vivVivhttp://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-52254775829865547782011-05-12T07:08:29.231-11:002011-05-12T07:08:29.231-11:00Mine are Mandarin - because it's the safest to...Mine are Mandarin - because it's the safest to use, so if you are trying to conceive, or have the blues, or are on other treatments - it won't do you any harm and is lovely and relaxing and uplifting. Grapefruit reminds me of sitting down to breakfast in Florida, cutting the peel off a ruby grapefruit and eating it whole, like an orange... caution when on prescription meds, though (it can interfere with uptake). And bergamot, which I always had a small bottle of when I lived a long way from family and friends, very anti-stress and reassuring. Hmm. Never realised I was so fruity! Luckily I'm not a sun worshipper - citrus oils and sunburn aren't a good combo. Lisa xxLisa Scullardhttp://www.screenkiss.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-58842137629941001832011-05-12T03:55:27.117-11:002011-05-12T03:55:27.117-11:00I'm short sighted and my hearing's not gre...I'm short sighted and my hearing's not great due to years of gigging, but my sense of smell has always been razor sharp. The smell of mown grass is one of my favourites and always has been. When I was a young child I used to adore the smell of petrol, fresh tarmac and just-extinguished match heads. Summer smells of the spicy honeysuckle that grows outside my door and there's nothing quite like a rain shower on hot concrete. The smell of fresh ginger and lime when cooking can send me into raptures. I react strongly to scent - 'Poison' turns my stomach and will literally make me heave, but l'Occitane products smell divine. Jasmine smells like blocked drains to me (sorry, Viv!)Mrs Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06289121990808465890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-23585448465472536942011-05-12T03:43:44.437-11:002011-05-12T03:43:44.437-11:00Living in an old school house on exmoor (similar t...Living in an old school house on exmoor (similar temperature to the bonkers house)I love citrus smells - especially lemon, it reminds me of sunshine, youth, carefree holidays, greek Islands, picking fresh lemons, scrapping the surface and inhaling.... pure summer, off now to have a steamy bath you guessed scented with lemon! Tired limbs need refreshing!trishahttp://www.exmoorfitness.co.uknoreply@blogger.com