The stink Monster I do not really have story to share about having guests over and having to battle the stink monster simply because I very rarely formally invite people over... But there was this time, when I had just returned from an outstation tour, the house smelled musty and damp a little sweet as …
Bombay smell!
Smelly to smiley.-- http://www.facebook.com/AmbiPurIndia “Bombay smell” my 2 ½ yr. Old daughter had declared. We were amused then. We were amused again, when she declared it as we entered a flat that was shut for about a year. The smell was stagnant water and rotting sewer. but then I realized the there were no good …
clock of fragrance.
This was a very strange place for this smell. Not one expected at a three star hotels. The smell of a rice granary. Most of the traditional houses along the west coast had this “agrashala” or store room. The smell of the days of long stretches of holidays that suddenly galloped to a finish. The …
soft and warm sandalwood.
The other day I visited an aromatherapy centre, the healer had a vial of sandalwood oil. The soft warm woody and balsamic fragrance. Yet it is a standalone fragrance. It evokes mixed responses. A pleasant one as it reminds me of two important people in my life, my grandmother and my father. Remember the hitopadesha …
Product experience
I am a biker, to me buses and cars are claustrophobic. Though I do travel with my family on long drives, somehow the stale fragrance of sweat and car deodorant kind of triggers the puke reflex in me. When Ambipur sent its sample, I chose the sky breeze. this was great. All the same there were …
The Whiff of lost friend.
My closest friends are books, in the human world it used to be Anupa. Jarod Kintz wrote,”flowers and fear are a lot alike, for one flowers and fear have a distinct smell, and two I’m currently trying to grow both in my garden.” Anupa my friend and I sat on the rocks of Manipal, they …