How To Choose Your Personal Scent

I have noticed that too!! I think my signature weekend frangrance is a mixture of sweat and bbq smoke. It makes a definite impact on both sexes. My buddies think it must be about time to eat (how about a sample?) and the ladies think I stink.

But the subtleties are even more pronounced after a really hard day. With no bbq going on and just a hard day at work, the reaction from both sexes is the same - HEY ROBERT - there are clean towels and lots of soap in the bathroom. Anytime would be good as long as it's right away.

Robert

Personally, I am kind of partial to maple sap and maybe a little bit of apple. Somehow, I can never get my wife to wear it. Maybe it has something to do with thinking I might chase her with a skew?

Way to draw the picture, Darrell!

I just have a picture of you looking up from your coffee with a really "special you know what I am thinking" intense look.... honey... is that you?

She is thinking something totally different than you at that point.

Robert

(still chuckling)

It's gonna be dejavu all over again. I can see it now. Yet another never ending argument re Darrell's simple Craft of apple & maple odors & smells vs Robert's signature Art of sweat and BBQ scents and fragrances. Then other artists among us will argue the cosmic messages he sends with mesquite vs hickory chips.

Personally, I favor the lilting fragrance of Italian Cypress with it's hints of romance and subtle overtones of moonlight trysts that gently awaken my olefactory senses; vis-a-vis a roll in the hay. But enough about these innocent starry eyed messages; the signature of my aroma art.

I ask you. "where will it all end?" :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

I like the rich wine scent of fermented soft maple. I've licked the wood, and it's just a faint taste, but the odor fills the shop when roughing two-month old wood, and the whole wet left arm smells good.

Ever ferment your maple sap up there, Darrell?

When classic rock to hollow form doth come!

Oh my... I am wondering now Arch... I hadn't thought of it in those terms.

Should I whack my ear off and start designing my "art form" a la VVG? And I haven't done a thing on a signature gouge in case one of the makers start calling. By the way, you can't pin me down to one medium so easily. Sometimes I use red oak, sometimes mesquite, sometimes live oak, and sometimes I mix. It depends on how I feel that day, how the artistic mood is at the the time. (My ear is trying to fold up on itself to hide now..)

Maybe it won't if we keep a good sense of humor!

;^)

Robert

Ya went and caused a flashback, Arch...

A few years ago we had one of the trucks in for service and when we picked it up we were waiting for it in the service managers office with a couple of the other clients.. My wife always wears vanilla body spray and one of the guys complimented her on it... the other 2 sniffed and said "I smell something like wood".. I had to admit that was me...

mac

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I love the smell when turning olive.. sort of makes me hungry, though..

One of my favorite smells will always be pine running through a saw.. not only a great smell but takes me back to my dad's sign shop in a heartbeat..

mac

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It's worth the effort. The alcohol seems to eliminate or retard spalting for long enough for the wood to develop a deep color, like the heartwood. I find it very attractive.