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Monday, March 18

The iPigeon.institute fragrances collection - Winter / Spring 2024 Composition - an agricultural archaeology set of finds! (Stub, updating)

 This composition was conceived of, as perhaps my most near-to-my-heartfelt reminisces of aroma ingredients that I'd previously owned, and lost, or used up, to entirety. The primary component that I was fawning over, conceivably, as for a shot at a new fragrance composition - perhaps a bit fierce and pissy (cat pee, for that matter), ends up being Blackcurrant Bud Absolute. 

This composition came on the heels of having done a couple months' spree of owning retail Dior men's fragrances - Sauvage Elixir, and then, Homme Sport (2021, I believe), which was nice, for me - the confidence and cleanliness factors being my primary concerns, as I was living out and about, in the wild, so to speak, with no indoors shelter for myself, going on extended periods of months, with this being the case. In this instance, with this new composition I had in mind, I wanted a powerful, synthetic, perhaps, citrus fragrance component, so I chose Dimethyl Octenone, perhaps as a result of having had a wild stroke of success, in one of my former compositions involving a specialized full-scale vanilla bean extraction, at home. This ingredient is almost noxious, in its petrochemical odor component, yet it blends quite effectively, in the case of this particular stub fragrance that I wore, for a month, with the addition of Cashmeran, for a rich and fully featured musk (sort of) woodsy effect, and, in this instance, a very long-lasting fragrance base - a dual-edged sword, in some sense, which would be whittled down, of the benefits and burdens of such a thing to consider, for a nearly all-hours, and several settings to accommodate, in smelling appropriate, such as living in a group home situation, as well as being out in the metropolitan parts of town, and on transit vehicles, for example. Too much, or something inappropriate, and offensive, to a sensible palate, would perhaps construe unexpectedly heavy-handed consequences for me to face, as I hadn't planned on changing my daily routine, of feeding the birds, around town.

The initial stub composition:

80 mL isopropyl alcohol (70%)

3/4 gram Blackcurrant Bud Absolute

13 drops Dimethyl Octenone

1 mL Cashmeran


This fragrance composition served fairly well, as it was a bit raucous and fresh, in some sense, yet it definitely would come off as stub, as far as fragrance compositions go, yet - that was last month. I got by, regardless of anything - they are professional grade fragrance ingredients; I felt that isopropyl alcohol could be sufficient enough to get by on, as far as alcohol content went, on account of that I feel that people could be forgiving enough - I'm by and large, not completely wrecked, as far as my personal and outward behaviors, amongst others, and, on top of that, I was now housed at a semi-permanent location, and the people there are mostly chill. I felt that, as always, fragrance could be, somewhat - my signature imprint upon people's impressions upon me, given that I was healing up from chronic pains, and I had to keep to myself, primarily, for rest, and for recovery, and I feel like I'd made sufficient progress on that note, in to the current month. 

This month, the ingredients I'd purchased are, as follows:

Yuzu essential oil - 4 mL

Sandalwood Mysore essential oil - 4 mL

Cocoa Absolute - 5 grams

Black Pepper essential oil - 4 mL

Lavandin Grosso (Oregon) essential oil - 8 mL

Tonka Bean Absolute 30% in ethyl alcohol


... I think that that's all, for that order. 

Oh, and I found a perfectly suited vanilla component, in the food aisle - vanilla bourbon - I'll have to update more on this, at some point; maybe just a quick note - the initial three ingredients, along with some manually-dabbed on vanilla bourbon - created a nearly impeccable true frankincense fragrance - just those four components. I guess that it would be more impactful to encounter that notion and slight composition discovery, in person - seeing the ingredients mixed together, having some reference material at hand, and, in realizing the historical significance of coming to such a discovery - I felt that it was significant. Along the way, in mixing this new fragrance composition, which I'll detail fully, soon - I also happened upon Jo Malone's Tonka and Myrrh - at least, the fair rendition, thereof; at least, of what I could remember, of it, for having had some buyer desires for that product, at some point, in the recent past.


On top of all of this, I felt that the fragrance was lacking in fullness and diversity in fragrance components, in the citrus department - I'd previously owned fragrances such as Hermes' fruits-inspired eaus, which are generally light, simple - perhaps deceptively so; perhaps elegant, would be the proper term, on second thought. I wanted to do something similar, yet not be tossed off, in to the "cheap" fragrance-making guy, who failed the ingredients, and my potential, I felt - so I went for some local buys on Bergamot, Tangerine, and Grapefruit essential oils. It came out great - although I did impart a spritz of one thing, and another, for some unattainable effects and ingredient components - I felt that perhaps corporate would not stomp on me, for being a true fragrance enthusiast, researcher, and scholar.


Oh, yeah. I also forgot the Carnation Essential oil, that I tried to include, in my second order.


I feel that it came out pretty nice, although people still aren't speaking to me, much, ha. Isopropyl alcohol is a bit of a challenge, and against the grain, as far as fine fragrance is concerned, but I had a much more topically-applied, medicinal slant to my composition's initial intentions and inspirations that I wanted to bring to life.

Wednesday, August 29

Some development of the coconut shell pigeon guano air-curing project: soil mites!

One of my hard shell brown coconut guano cultures has developed what seem to be either maggots or mites; actually, it seemed that maggots were crawling around on the top of the guano after I left the coconuts out since last update, perhaps a few weeks or less, at this point.

I decided that perhaps I might see if some of the tobacco seeds would sprout in the mix, as early on in a decomposition stage as it might be; though I gave it ionic minerals and various pharmaceuticals, and perhaps some interesting micro-evolutionary epochs had transpired in the meantime, creating an advanced and or adapted form of 8 legged creature (perhaps), which could likely be of various origins, based on the bug life observed: I saw a scattering parasitic tick (just one) when I was gathering the freeway underpass guano [although that's not this particular batch; this one is dried grassland next-to-freeway guano and dirt. I'm assuming that there was somewhat dried out and starved for moisture insect and predatory parasite life waiting for moisture for them to be born; ostensibly of various modes of evolution, if the circumstances permit, as I had noted in my previous experiment in feeding a gutter mosquito birthing larval stage puddle with Humineral Zeolite Humic and Fulvic minerals, and the soon-afterwards appearance of the friendly mosquito (yet still itchy as it bit me).

I'll update this post with photos and more links soon.

Some links on soil mites:

http://www.savanna.org.au/all/soil_health_monitoring.html

http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0100e/a0100e05.htm

https://genetics.thetech.org/about-genetics/making-medicines

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