Lifting the veil on Queen of Sheba's perfume

Science Daily ^ | 10/11/2016 | CNRS

[wardaddy]

Women love Chanel blu

Trust me

[MD Expat in PA]

It happens to me, too, and then I get bronchitis. I thought I was alone in suffering a reaction to the stuff.

I am glad to know I’m not alone too.

Allergies are strange.

While I seem to be allergic to certain types of balsam (and FWIW, I learned that frankesence is a type of, in the same family as balsam), I don’t have the same problem with other types of incense or with pine.

I had a friend who was very allergic to pine. When she came to my house for a Christmas party, she mostly stayed in the kitchen or in my club basement but couldn’t stay long because I had a fresh cut Christmas tree in my living room and before long, she started having a reaction to it. But I am not bothered by them.

On the other hand, I get my worst allergy attacks, not in the spring or in fall but in the very late fall and early to mid-winter months. I’ve not gotten allergy tests but my doctor suspects I have an allergy to leaf mold rather than to pollen. I don’t get them all the time but when I do, I feel like I’ve come down with a very bad case of the flu – not just the uncontrollable sneezing and coughing and watery eyes, even a sore throat, but also very bad body aches and chills, feeling flushed and feverish but not actually running a temperature. But in any case, I’m pretty much out of commission until it passes.

The only way I know it was an allergy attack rather than the flu is that it comes on very suddenly but then is completely gone in 24 hours.

I am also highly allergic to Poison Ivy. I end up having to go on steroids for it.

[T-Bone Texan]

My mother wore Emeraude.

You just brought back many wonderful memories.

[T-Bone Texan]

You have a unique voice in your writing, and I know it is you in the first few lines.

The lack of punctuation, perhaps?

I posit it is the stream-of-consciousness tone in the body.

Whatever it is, please don’t stop.

[wardaddy]

Thank you

I’m a very disciplined work or doaholic in my life

I rarely do nothing like in college when we’d all veg and watch tv late 70s on the rare non party night out

I do watch the Escobar Patron de Mal miniseries with my 16 year old.....Netflix....all 115 episodes...soap opera meets docudrama ....subtitled filmed on location

I lived there a bit in the 80s and knew a couple of the players in passing around emeralds biz

But I write on threads like texting all broken or to be exact...undisciplined

I can write blue book essay style but it’s not a natural fit for thread context at least not to me

I appreciate it

Stay strong were gonna need it

I tend to post on the run or late in bed....it’s funny how mood affects content

Some mornings I get up and go damn I wish I had been less candid

[Pelham]

He writes that way for our entertainment.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 10/11/2016. Thanks JimSEA.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 10/11/2016. Thanks JimSEA.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 10/11/2016. Thanks JimSEA. One of *those* topics, after a fashion.

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[PapaBear3625]

I used to use Bay Rum aftershave until my girlfriend at the time told me I smelled like a French whorehouse.

You should have asked her "And how is it that you are so familiar with what a French whorehouse smells like?"

[blam]

"Interesting. When I was a kid, I would chew pine sap which made a pretty good chewing gum and I ended up smelling like a pine tree."

Just yesterday in my daily walk through the woods with my dogs, I was reminded, as a kid, seeing slash marks and the galvanized rosen collectors under the slash marks on the pine trees. I was told that collecting pine rosen was some sort of war-time effort. I also remember the tung orchards (that are no longer ) from that period and for the same reason.(War effort)

Tung Ave is an artifact of that period....there's not a tung tree to be found in the area.

[Texan5]

I have been buying frankincense tears and other natural/raw incense products online for quite awhile, along with the charcoal cakes to burn it on-frankincense is my favorite for getting rid of cooking smells, meditation, etc-incense is almost almost always being burned in my house whenever I’m home-and being Catholic, I learned to love the scent of it at High Mass...

[MayflowerMadam]

I wore Emeraude in college for a while but I figured out that’s what was making me sneeze. Moved on to Wind Song.

[Sawdring]

When I was a kid, I would chew pine sap which made a pretty good chewing gum and I ended up smelling like a pine tree.

You can drink straight gin and end up smelling the same.

[null and void]

I can’t seem to forget her...