Olfactory Digressions - Fum Bravanariz 2019

"...Life was feeling good
At that old cabin in the woods..."

It had so much beauty this place, she thought as she entered the old wooden cabin.
The cabin was in the middle of the wild green part of the woods.
She pushed open the old windows to let in the spicy scent of juniper, it mingled cautiously with the fresh green, slightly tart notes of the surrounding ferns and shrubs.
With the breeze now drifting into the cabin through the open windows, the smell of smoke from the old, wood charred fireplace grew stronger.
What a lot of times she had sat in front of it as a child, drawing pictures of the forest in the crackle of the fire.
Now she knelt before the cold black remains of fires past.
The coal-black walls of the fireplace still smelled strongly of smoke.
It brought back memories for her and made her smile.
She continued to walk around the room, the wood warm from the sun. In some places it was oozing resinous sap from the old fibers, almost as if they were tears.
Tears at finding her way home again.
Deeply she sucked in the smell of those wooden walls, it smelled balsamic of dry resinous conifer.
In the small corner of the kitchen she spotted a sticky stain, it was the dried juice of oranges.
She stroked it, slightly bitter yet sweet it stuck to her finger.
How many times had they squeezed fresh orange juice while the morning fire was already warming the room.
She was then always allowed to nibble the remnants of the pulp from the peel.
Her fingers had exactly the same slightly bittersweet scent afterwards as they did now.
Oh what she loved that old, creaky wooden cabin, with all its memories.
She decided to clean the fireplace and afterwards she would build a fire, enjoy the spicy smoke and the crackling of the dry wood, and reminisce in the flickering light of the fire.
Oh yes, she would do that...
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Fum is a spicy smoke scent.
The smoke is very present, from the first moment and remains so until the end.
In between, bittersweet oranges peek out, but also dry, slightly resinous coniferous wood.
Also, an association to light green forest notes does not stay away from me, up to spicy juniper, especially at the beginning.
Over time, the smoke becomes more creaky (Chizza named it a "match note" in his review) about the same way I feel it, as if the sulfur is flaming off the igniter head.
It remains spicy and warm and is further accompanied by the woody notes, and the subtle bitter orange note also flashes through every now and then.
Yes, a quite wonderful smoke!

Song "Cabin in the Woods"
Canaan Smith