- Date of Birth
- March 5, 1947 (73)
About ECaruthers
- Biography:
- I read The Emperor of Scent in 2006 and The Secret of Scent ,Christmas, 2008. I'd never heard of oakmoss or amber and had little idea what many flowers smell like. So I started to learn. See the 1st installment of my blog for more details.
- Interests:
- reading, chess, golf, how we identify smells
- Occupation:
- R&D
- Home Country:
- United States
- Location:
- Rochester, NY
- Gender:
- Male
- Show wardrobe in posts:
- No
- Show SOTD in Posts:
- Yes
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- 6
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- 30
- Most Recent Message
- 17th August 2011 10:42 AM
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- 12th August 2014 04:08 AM
- Join Date
- 8th February 2009
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ECaruthers on 14th August 2011 at 02:34 AM
I'm fortunate in my friends. Besides the samples I've bought, I've been given many more - some several years ago and many more, lately.
When I had a couple of dozen samples, I kept them in boxes. Filling the boxes about half full of little plastic pellets lets the samples stand up nicely. (I originally saw this idea suggested by 30roses.) But now I have more than 100 sample bottles and
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ECaruthers on 20th June 2011 at 02:41 AM
Of course we’re all unique. But how large are our differences? There are fragrances – rose, lemon, vanilla, coffee, … – that most of us are very familiar with. We’ve all learned to recognize them, we associate the same fragrances with the same sources, and we use the same names for them. But what about less familiar odors? I wouldn’t have recognized a fougere or chypre before I got into fragrances.
I'm thinking about how wide the differences are in the way people experience
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ECaruthers on 16th December 2009 at 08:48 PM
I posted my own version of molecules-to-nose-to-brain smell recognition in May. I based this new one on Nobel Prize work by Linda Buck and Richard Axel. I made up the first version just using what I remembered of neural nets and artificial intelligence in computers. Doctors Axel and Buck and their students worked more than 15 years to find out what really happens. Obviously, this is the one
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ECaruthers on 15th November 2009 at 10:16 PM
Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of the Senses includes a section titled, Prodigies of Smell, “the most famous of whom is probably Helen Keller." In fact, Helen Keller is the only prodigy discussed. She’s also the only prodigy mentioned in the Freeks, Geeks, and Prodigies chapter of Avery Gilbert’s What the Nose Knows.
Ackerman says, “Helen Keller had a miraculous
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ECaruthers on 25th October 2009 at 02:19 AM
My hip’s been hurting for months, so I made myself a comfort spray to use at bedtime. The problem with hip pain (at least mine) is that there’s no comfortable sleep position. I was dreading going to bed at night. So I mixed up a spray bottle with lavender, frankincense, oud, lots of vanilla and vodka for a carrier. It’s not magic – I never expected it would be. It doesn’t put me to sleep or keep me asleep. But it is an interesting smell experience at bedtime, when I spray some on my pillow
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