arg!

[telophase]

So to take advantage of the snow day, I spent an hour and a half or so this afternoon messing about with my perfume components, creating a heart-note accord and a couple of top-note ones, and testing some scent samples from Luxury Lane Soaps, which I hadn't tested yet since I wanted to go through my BPAL ones and figure out what it was that I was allergic to before going to another company's scents.

And you've probably figured it out by now: I am currently sniffing and sneezing. Aargh. With no way of telling which one is at fault.

The only component I know I was working with that is in Phantom Time Hypothesis is benzoin, so I guess tomorrow I get to perfume myself with a drop or two of that, and see if I start sniffling and sneezing later on. :P

Comments

[mothoc.livejournal.com]

Your comment about benzoin reminded me about benzaldehyde. It's used to give an almond-scent to cosmetic products, and I ran across it in some shaving cream I tried a while back. Severely irritated my face when I shaved with it, and I had to stop using it. Turns out that it's known to cause allergic reactions (http://msds.chem.ox.ac.uk/BE/benzaldehyde.html). I'm not a chemist, and I don't know how closely benzaldehyde and benzoin are related, but it might be worth paying attention to.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it looks like they're related. Thanks! (Haven't tested it yet; will do so at some point soon. XD))