My current method of attempting to develop my nose is, when I get a scent and get around to putting it in my Great Spreadsheet, I try and look up the notes other people have mentioned and put those in. I have a column for it, which is not the most sortable way of having it, but I'm not going to try and build myself a database (yet). So theoretically I can observe that these two perfumes have these two notes in common, and I can smell them and see what I notice.
If you can get ahold of single note perfumes, those are great for going "ohhhh that's what this is", which is how I discovered that I really don't care for tuberose, at least not on its own.
Also at least one of the BPAL cinnamon notes turns to absolute angry snarling tree bark on me, and I'm not sure which one.
The columns in my spreadsheet:
Perfume (name); Scent Notes (large unwieldy field for notes and flavor text; House (maker); Group (if there are collections like with BPAL); Tried it? (y/n); Have/ Want; How much?; Willing to swap? (how much do I want to keep it); Commentary Notes (to distinguish from scent notes); Provenance (this is where I name the decant circle); Worked? (yes/no-ish); [here begins the sniff test commentary]: Bottle; Wet; Drydown; dry; Done; Mood (that I would want to evoke with the scent); Forum/Reviews (link); Shop (link); Perfume (repeat of column for spreadsheet reasons); [here begin the calculated fields which I mostly hide, yes/no based on whether there's anything in the field]: checkscent; checkreview; checkshop; checkhouse; checkgroup; needinfo (shown: sum of research fields left empty); checktry; checkswap; checkcomt; checkwork; checkbot; checkwet; checkdd; checkdry; checkdone; checkmood; needrev (shown: sum of trial fields left empty);
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If you can get ahold of single note perfumes, those are great for going "ohhhh that's what this is", which is how I discovered that I really don't care for tuberose, at least not on its own.
Also at least one of the BPAL cinnamon notes turns to absolute angry snarling tree bark on me, and I'm not sure which one.
The columns in my spreadsheet:
Perfume (name); Scent Notes (large unwieldy field for notes and flavor text; House (maker); Group (if there are collections like with BPAL); Tried it? (y/n); Have/ Want; How much?; Willing to swap? (how much do I want to keep it); Commentary Notes (to distinguish from scent notes); Provenance (this is where I name the decant circle); Worked? (yes/no-ish); [here begins the sniff test commentary]: Bottle; Wet; Drydown; dry; Done; Mood (that I would want to evoke with the scent); Forum/Reviews (link); Shop (link); Perfume (repeat of column for spreadsheet reasons); [here begin the calculated fields which I mostly hide, yes/no based on whether there's anything in the field]: checkscent; checkreview; checkshop; checkhouse; checkgroup; needinfo (shown: sum of research fields left empty); checktry; checkswap; checkcomt; checkwork; checkbot; checkwet; checkdd; checkdry; checkdone; checkmood; needrev (shown: sum of trial fields left empty);