ScentSearch
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ScentSearch
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Discover · Understand · Use with intention
Thirteen long-form guides, thirty-eight note pages and two short reference pages, in three groups: understanding how scent works, making your own, and living with what you have. Every regulatory figure and research claim is traced to the document that made it.
What is actually happening, and where the research stops.
How perception works, why the same bottle smells different to two people, what the evidence on mood shows, and how to search perfume, cologne, candles, diffusers and oils.
There is no vanilla receptor. Combinatorial coding, the one gene that makes a molecule smell like sweat or flowers or nothing, and why nobody knows how many smells you can tell apart.
Thirty-eight individual notes — lavender, cedar, vanilla, sandalwood, oud and more — each with real product counts, price bands and what it most often appears alongside.
Eleven guides. Candles come as an overview plus one per decision; perfume and sprays are separate, because anything reaching skin answers to limits a candle never meets. Soap is separate again, because making it means handling a corrosive. The last is regulatory rather than practical: it covers how US regulators classify handmade soap.
What to do with what you already own.
How to burn candles properly, basic safety rules, and simple habits that improve throw and burn time.
Diffusers, warmers, candles, wax melts, sprays and skin — what each use needs, and why a candle-safe oil is not automatically skin-safe.