Part 2: Places My spreadsheet lasted exactly five minutes. The original plan seemed perfectly sensible. Brand. Fragrance. Notes. Rating. Done. Instead, I found myself writing things like: Tea House. Rainy Afternoon. Silk Road Library. At first I thought I was simply being whimsical. I wasn’t. I was discovering that “fragrance notes” answered the wrong question. […]
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Cataloging Scents, Cataloging Selves – Background
Part 1: The Inventory That Escaped Some projects begin with grand ambitions. This wasn’t one of them. My goal was embarrassingly practical. Figure out what I owned. Figure out what I liked. Stop buying duplicates. That was it. Instead, I accidentally started writing a series about memory, travel, identity, emotional geography . . . and […]