...one:1 of Greysolon's legendary Belgian milk chocolats, or 1 bottle of "Angel...

...Briarthorn:Good one. I'd say depends how it's used. so both?Dark Chocolate or Milk ChocolateCryptic and Briarthorn, I'm taking this Iso E discussion to another forum because I'm losing my love for Iso E. By virtue of it's popularity, it's becoming the new calone of men's fragrance.But onto a more important topic...!!!MILK CHOCOLATE!!! Specifically, Belgian milk chocolate :D

...Greysolon:Yeah, I know I'm being a answer hog -oink- I am too. Wear that pig label proudly.Hotel. I can commune quite happily with nature from dawn until dusk...

...Cryptic:Fame seems overrated to me, not that I would know. There's an Emerson quote that defines success as earning the respect of intelligent people and the appreciation of honest critics. I like that. :)Who makes better movies: David Lynch or James Cameron?Yeah, I know I'm being an answer hog -oink- but I just had to put in my 2 cents on this question. I'm a huge fan of David Lynch...The link to the film (below) is from the documentary Lumiere and Company and is a great example of David Lynch's work. The underlying idea for the documentary was to give 40 contemporary film directors a reproduction of Auguste and Louis Lumiere's movie camera from the 1890's to make a new film. The camera could only record about 1 minute and each director had to follow these rules:-Shorts were edited in-camera.-A short may be no longer than 52 seconds-No synchronized sound-No more than three takesIn one minute, this film seems to use every David Lynch story telling device. Like most of Lynch's films, it's surreal and unsettling.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFpoWwY65KIVacations: go camping or stay in a hotel?

...Cryptic:Fame or fortune?Fortune. What's the going price for fame these days?Kevin Spacey bad guy: Verbal Kint/Keyser Soze or Francis Underwood?

...Briarthorn:SCIENCE!Briarthorn, I wish more people would get excited about science rather than willfully ignoring that it is the foundation of... ...everything! I'll stop before the thread takes on a contentious edge. Cryptic, have you started harvesting stamens from that crocus for paella? :wink: The few that pop up around here have a VERY slight saffron smell.More native plants flowering around here. Redbud trees. The flowers have a faint tuberose scent but the woody parts have a noticeably green yet sweet, just beyond ripe apple fragrance. BTW, not my photo of redbudAlso, Carolina Jessamine is blooming. The flowers have a tarragon/anise scent with a latex like indolic quality. On warm, still days the fragrance radiates from the vines and smells beautiful.

...Cryptic, when I read your question I immediately thought of the same bottle. You know, every time I see that bottle it makes me wonder how the Lucas Film/Star Wars franchise became so destitute. I mean, why else would they sell Nicki Minaj the image rights to C3PO just so she could dress him up in a red wig and bustier? :(Vintage Shalimar in a Nicki Minaj bottle.Tax rates as low as possible and you pay for your own amenities/services assuring your quality of life or higher taxes for public amenities/services to enhance quality life for everyone?

...Cryptic:Eureka! Is it a little crocus? Hey, wait a minute! What happened to all the snow? Bummer.Briarthorn:The Dandelions that grow wild down here are very small and a bit sparse. Genetically modified plants! :wink: Well, modified by a lawn mowers. In suburbia most dandelion seeds that survive to mature and propagate are short and the flower stems tend to grow horizontally rather than vertically. Nature will find a way.

...Cryptic:I don't care for the name "Égoïste." It's like douchebag with an accent and an umlaut. :lol: :lol: :lol: Call me boring, but I'll take summers of chronic, irritating discomfort and winters of cross country skiing over chronically nice weather and the threat of an apocalyptic smack down. Which falsetto/counter tenor rock song: The Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive or Prince's Kiss?

...is a beautiful picture Greysolon. The Dandelions that grow wild down here are very small and a bit sparse. I have never really had a chance to take in their scent. You have me...

...Dandelions are popping up all over my yard. A Dandelion flower is one of the few things that, to me, smells the way it looks. Can smells be onomatopoeaic? The scent is not at all shy but it is soft, round and golden and reminds me of the florals in Dior’s Eau Sauvage which I also think of as being soft, round and golden. The actual scent has a subtle hay or straw like sweetness and the quality of softness strikes me as buttery and slightly animalic. As I was googling “dandelion” I stumbled across one of those idiotic Yahoo! Answers threads and someone posted this question: “Why do dandelions smell so damn awesome? Like a stick of butter on a pancake that is fresh from the zoo?” Honestly? I get that! First, i couldn’t believe someone else thought of the scent as buttery and anamalic. Second, I got schooled in the age old aphorism, “There are no stupid questions.” I caught this little guy picnicking in the sun...

...Cryptic:Sorry to tell you this but you may have a difficult time finding a phalaenopsis that's fragrant. They do exist but they're pretty uncommon. Go for a cattleya if you want something that smells heavenly. :)This is a Beallara orchid called "Howard's Dream," and it has a faint scent of licorice. It's beside the Serge bottle for scale and because the color is similar.I'll look for Cattleya and Beallara. Beallara is almost fleshy looking! Any common names that identify these varieties? It drives me nuts when flowers don't exude scent. I'd much rather have a plain, aromatic flower than an extravagant blossom without "nose." Briarthorn, your advice about using ice cubes is exactly what we did because it was mentioned in the "owner's manual " that came with our plant. Apparently we didn't apply this instruction often enough. The Crepe myrtles have begun blossoming in some neighborhoods but I'll have to wait til ours begin to bloom so I don't get arrested for standing in a stranger's front yard with my eyes shut in ecstasy, sniffing at their trees :oops:

...Cryptic: ...orchids belong indoors when the temp falls below about 65 degrees. Good luck with the next one! :)Fortunately I didn't expect the orchids to share my Nordic love of winter so they were always kept indoors :D. Even though we didn't freeze them I think they languished from too little water :( I'm sure we'll try again because they're beautiful plants with such unique, long lasting flowers. Hopefully we'll be a little more sensitive to their needs thanks to your advice, Cryptic and Cincy! I'm also hoping I can find one with a bit of scent too.

...It was a Phalaenopsis. I think our problem was under-watering. I have a lot of perennials in pots outside (herbs/shrubs) and I'm very stingy with water during the winter. It's the only way to get them through. The orchid pot was filled with bark which is great for drainage ...well, unless there's nothing to drain. We'll have to check out Trader J's and see what they've got. I got the now late orchid last fall for Lady Grey's birthday and the flowers hung on for about 3 months. It was beautiful. Then we got into mid winter ...strike up the dies irae.

...Greysolon, Trader Joe's has beautiful orchids, great prices too. Do you have TJ"s...

...Cryptic, really beautiful orchids! You don't simply have a green thumb, I bet it can resuscitate plants through photosynthesis! I think the orientation of our house/windows is not conducive for indoor plants. The largest windows face north or south. Good for heating and cooing, bad for plants. The south windows get direct sunlight several hours a day in the winter and the north windows ...face north! I'm ashamed to say I don't know what kind of orchid we had ...Chypre? :roll: I'll have to stop by a florist or greenhouse just to get a sniff at some different orchids.

...Same here Greysolon, killed mine over the winter, over watered. Couldn't smell anything with mine either.It's the first time we had an orchid and it held it's blossoms a...

...here Greysolon, killed mine over the winter, over watered. Couldn't smell anything with mine either...

...Whew! The video said it for me. That's what Bradford pears are called around here... and I don't mean Linden trees. Yeah, I'm apparently that Victorian.Love the sketch, by the way. I'll have to look into more Mitchell and Webb.Can't wait to see the orchids. We managed to kill one this winter :oops: although I don't recall that it had any scent.

...Greysolon:Do you think Fragrantica would allow this post? :lol: It might offend certain Victorian sensibilities. Speaking of which:https://www.youtube.com...