I have always hated the smell of patchouli, too, patiodog. Ewww. Even back in the '60s, I couldn't stand it.
The scent that most reminds me of hippies is eucalyptus.
if you wanna have some fun, try to be with Setanta when there's a hippie dipped in patchouli around. He gets positively frantic trying to get away from the stink.
I don't like it, but it's not as bad as porcupine musk.
Dunno about porcupines, but a foul smell that's never bothered me that much (unless in the very immediate vicinity) is skunk. Just doesn't bother me that much -- associations with home home, maybe.
Skunk doesn't bother me unless the spray is very very close - like the skunk is within dog-on-leash reach.
Reminds me of something: one time I'd taken some recreational pharmaceuticals with a guy I worked with who I didn't know very well, and, middle of the night, at this great mountain house he was housesitting, I'm out on the porch smoking something, and the guy is down there pissing in the yard, and I hear this "AAAH!" come from his direction. He comes running up on the porch, goes in the house, slams and locks the door, with me still outside. After a few seconds I start to smell that smell -- and smells are very vivid for me at this point. Dude in the house was totally freaked out, he couldn't tell if he'd been sprayed or not, it takes me a long time to talk him into opening the door and let me in. Somehow he thinks the skunk is waiting right there at the door or something. Turns out he was taking a leak and felt something brush up against his leg, he freaks out and kicks at it (a city boy in town to work, this one) -- but somehow misses getting hit with the spray.
Huh. Not a very good story here on the screen. Ah, well. That's what I get for a youth full of chemical stimulation instead of real experience: crappy stories.
Yep. Just sitting here waiting for the guy to show up and fix the window in the back door. (Actually feels very, very good to be doing nothing at this moment -- haven't spent a good chunk of time doing nothing in over a month now.)
Yay. Doing nothing is WAY underrated.
And from your schedule, looks like you'll be a busy boy soon.
Are you trying to work in addition to all of that?
PATCHOULI!!! Harrumph! hate it.
Lovely to hear all this barking from you, P dearest.
Hey, lighten up on patchouli! Though a little DOES go a long way. Which is true of most scents, IMHO...
Welcome back, patiodog, and glad that your trip was relatively uneventful.
We shall hope that you will share your wildlife ecology classes with us.
Now I have to be a dope and ask: What is patchouli?
It is a rather cloying, sweet (in)essential oil - presumably from a patchouli plant (?) much beloved of hippyish women in the sixties (apparently) and seventies (I know ALL about this time!). It is making a horrid comeback, I smell, amongst the nouveau hippies of now.
It was a problem back then - I am sure it is now.
OK, maybe I can give you some help with that Calculus nonsense if I can remember anything after all these years.
funny, I don't consider patchouli to be sweet. I smell it as very damp, deep forest dirt. But, not as nice.
the sozer wrote:Are you trying to work in addition to all of that?
Prolly a little bit. Just enough to keep me honest.
the rabbit wrote:{Patchouli} is making a horrid comeback, I smell, amongst the nouveau hippies of now.
Comeback? When did it leave? It's stench was still pervading Santa Cruz a decade ago, and I doubt it ever went out of "style" there.
the swimp wrote:OK, maybe I can give you some help with that Calculus nonsense if I can remember anything after all these years.
That I'm not worried about. I've a special gift for bluffing my way through these quantitative things without ever entirely knowing what I did. But I may have to take you up on it when my hubris runs out.
the small letter after j wrote:forest dirt
dung
Patchouli is what all the leather-makers & biker guys rubbed into their leathers. It was supposed to hide the smell of other burning herbs. Sheesh.
i believe deb's description. after all she was/still a hippy
My harrumph is tempered only by the joy of seeing a PUEO!!!!!!!!!!
not quite as nice as forest dirt = dung, in effect, no?
