Cavern Scents Journey

February 8, 2010
Is it really true?  I have to go find out.
Rats, my KI isn’t working now.   That’s odd.  It worked a couple months ago…  Hmmm, maybe that earthquake shook a relay and the frequency shifted slightly.  We’ll see whether a new one fixes the issue.
Yes it does!  Hey, and there are others here! People [...]

I should not have taken the box.  That really gave it away.  Removing some of the material from the Little Box may have certainly made someone suspicious, but that could have been a fluke, to them at least.   A wander — no.  I keep coming back to the fact that a wanderer would have taken [...]

It is interesting how a simple fragrance remains a memory.  Not a word, not an image — I have often wondered what it is in our brain/body/psyche that actually remembers smells.
Things had gotten so busy I nearly forgot the brief moment of wonder at Devokan last summer.  I’m still not sure it happened, but after [...]

Chink……  chink……  chink……
The quiet tink of glass rod on glass rim penetrated the drawn out wind-like sound I heard as I breathed in.
Chink…….
Leaning forward I inhaled the new combination of scents.  Ooof…  too much pine.
“Rats.”
Well, let it cook.  Smell it again in a few hours.  I thought about the painting — something different would be [...]

Surface Date:  March 7, 2005
To:  Ghaelen D’Lareh
From:  Gr’noreth Solaken
Ghaelen,
We’d like to nominate your latest fragrance blend, “Nee Lehnah,” for a Creative Alchemy Award from the Revnekan Institute of the Healing Arts.  If you are interested in this award, there are a few items we need from you by SD March 13 at 5pm.

A sample of [...]

I really should say that I decided to write down the story when I found the Big Box, not when I discovered the Little Box had disappeared. After all, had I not found the Big Box I wouldn’t have known about the Little Box at all.  Its subsequent disappearance would not have made [...]

The event that triggered my decision to write about this part of my journey was the disappearance of the Little Box. I realized, when I went back and saw that it was gone from the Big Box, that the smell of its contents had reached someone who cared. Besides me.
And I didn’t really [...]

How to begin? Can’t start at the beginning because the beginning has been over for a while. Even though I decided rather recently to begin to tell the story that began back when — I, like most humans, want to tell the story from start to finish. My friend Ruby says [...]

I’ve long worked with fragrances and essential oils on the surface, but hadn’t realized there was such a treasure trove of scents in the Cavern and the associated Ages. The journey to find, catalog, and finally duplicate them has been amazing — and frustrating . Everything goes smoothly unless I start looking [...]