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alloy-digest Saturday, September 9 2000 Volume 05 : Number 219
Today's Subjects:
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Alloy: Re: mmm...Galaxy [Barbara Cohen <bcohen@utk.edu>]
Re: Alloy: Re: mmm...Galaxy [Robin Thurlow <rthurlow@binghamton.edu>]
Re: Alloy: Re: mmm...Galaxy ["Melissa R. Jordan" <wearart@erols.com>]
Re: Alloy: Re: mmm...Galaxy ["Melissa R. Jordan" <wearart@erols.com>]
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 10:56:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Barbara Cohen <bcohen@utk.edu>
Subject: Alloy: Re: mmm...Galaxy
>eat one now my head will explode! (Barbara, I think you were still away when
>the tragedy occured... I discovered that sugar and chocolate were triggering
>my migraines. Help meee.. )
Oh Robin, that's awful news! One time I thought that chocolate was
triggering headaches for me too (though thankfully not migraines)
but it turned out it was just my advisor. Hee hee! Actually I
read that vanilla scents can help you not have chocolate cravings.
As I recall, they wanted people to wear these little patches that
released vanilla scent in order to lose weight :)
*B*
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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 13:23:47 -0400
From: Robin Thurlow <rthurlow@binghamton.edu>
Subject: Re: Alloy: Re: mmm...Galaxy
Barbara Cohen wrote:
> Actually I
> read that vanilla scents can help you not have chocolate cravings.
> As I recall, they wanted people to wear these little patches that
> released vanilla scent in order to lose weight :)
That's interesting... I used to wear a vanilla scent, though in the end it was a
little too strong for me (I normally don't wear any kind of perfume deliberately..
I find that if I wash key articles of clothing by hand with certain combinations
of soaps, it provides a nice effect without being too strong) After that I was
just wearing pure vanilla extract for a little while, but the bees found that a
little too attractive.
Is there any research study about clove scent? I love that smell, but can't find
anything that's just purely clove. Clove ciggies are out, unless burned just as
incense. Should I just crush some up & wear it in a little pendant? hmmm...
I wonder what Thomas Dolby smells like?
Robin T
trying to add an on-topic flavor to her post!
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Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 00:06:24 -0400
From: "Melissa R. Jordan" <wearart@erols.com>
Subject: Re: Alloy: Re: mmm...Galaxy
Robin Thurlow wrote:
> Is there any research study about clove scent? I love that smell, but can't find
> anything that's just purely clove. Clove ciggies are out, unless burned just as
> incense. Should I just crush some up & wear it in a little pendant? hmmm...
>
Oh man, I *loved* the smell of clove cigarettes in college. I didn't know they existed
until I smelled some in a dorm hallway my first week at school. Some of my friends
thought they were ultra pretentious. I just liked the scent. (But I'm not a smoker -
ever - so they weren't even something I considered trying.) I remember hearing about
kids who smoked them and died almost immediately afterward. Urban legend or a for-real
thing for people with asthma, etc.?
I had to sit in a meeting in this chick's office at Dep't of Commerce yesterday for an
hour and a half, and she chain-smoked the whole time (an utter violation of federal
law and simply bad manners.) She's a big boss, so no one said anything, but I've been
feeling awful and coughing and wheezing ever since. I understand she does this all the
time and never asks anyone if they mind. I have to work closely with her for the next
two months, and she can cancel my contract with a single word, so I may have to be a
weasel and make an anonymous call to the IG, rather than face her unmannerly wrath
face-on.
- - Melissa, recently diagnosed with chronic asthmatic bronchitis and not eager to
become "acute" again any time soon!!!
- --
Melissa R. Jordan
Owner/Artist/Rubber Maven, Compass Rose Studios (http://crstudios.com)
Chief Navigator, Compass Rose Consulting (http://askcrc.com)
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Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 00:17:37 -0400
From: "Melissa R. Jordan" <wearart@erols.com>
Subject: Re: Alloy: Re: mmm...Galaxy
> Barbara Cohen wrote:
>
> > Actually I
> > read that vanilla scents can help you not have chocolate cravings.
> > As I recall, they wanted people to wear these little patches that
> > released vanilla scent in order to lose weight :)
>
Sounds marvelous - sign me up! :-) But, you know, I tried the vanilla scent oil from
The Body Shop once, and it made me nuts because I felt like I smelled like cookie
dough all the time. Nice at first, but then very cloying.
Amusingly (to me at least), The Body Shop also has a perfume oil called "Samarkand."
It's a musky, spicy scent. But my Moscow buddies and I always wondered what the Body
Shop folks would say if they REALLY knew how Samarkand smelled! Hot garbage, spoiled
milk products, goat dung, and b.o.! Now, that would be quite something! A bunch of us
had just been to Samarkand before hitting this Body Shop on a quickie trip to London,
and we laughed ourselves silly imagining a TRUE Samarkand perfume.
One last doofy bit - there was a genteel embassy ladies club in Moscow, well-attended
by the bored wives of high-level foreign service officers. Every month, they'd have a
day trip or a presentation of new cosmetics or clothes from a European firm. I still
have this sign in my files, stolen from an embassy hallway, advertising one of the
ladies' events:
"Come join us for a presentation of Christian Dior's newest scent - Poisson! Free
samples to all attendees."
Bless their little old hearts, I had this vision of a bunch of helmet-haired,
power-suited Ladies Who Lunch rubbing raw fish all over themselves. After their signs
vanished all over the embassy, a new one was hastily posted, and one "s" had been
removed from that perfume name. :-)
Gotta get some sleep.
Cheers,
Melissa
- --
Melissa R. Jordan
Owner/Artist/Rubber Maven, Compass Rose Studios (http://crstudios.com)
Chief Navigator, Compass Rose Consulting (http://askcrc.com)
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