Cavern Scents Journey

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

The event that triggered my decision to write about this part of my journey was the disappearance of the Vinyl Bag. I realized, when I went back and saw that it was gone from the Wooden Box, that the smell of its contents had reached someone who cared. Besides me.  The opening of the Bag [...]

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 it doesn’t work that [...]

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 for that box. [...]