helmet wash, with perfumes

Saw this banner in Yogyakarta during my visit for the Supper Snapshots exhibition early this month.

It says:
Fortune, Helmet Spa
Helmet wash, from Rp7,000 - Rp15,000
Various perfumes available:

• Softly
• Macho
• Flirty
• Extreme

sniffing scotch tapes

Apart from sniffing books,there is another smell that I really like in bookshops: scotch tapes.

(thanks Rara for the photo!)

me and moleskine

I always like Moleskine notebooks - they're very good to write on, they're sturdy, and they smell good.

Well at least those were my impression when I used to buy moleskine in the Netherlands. However, I was rather disappointed to know that the Moleskine notebooks in Indonesia do not have the same good smell as those in the Netherlands. The softcover notebook which I used to buy had the strong, leather smell that I really liked. But not here. I will make further 'research' on that one later. Now I am just happy to have another moleskine notebook.

Thanks to Titing for the photo! :-)

book-sniffer

I secretly sniff books in book shops ;-)

My favourite section was the Classics, especially those by Wordsworth. I believe they have the best book smells, which explained my dozens of Wordsworth books at home.








thanks to Maarten for the photos!

civet+rosemary at flona 2013

Flona is an annual house plants and pets fair held in Banteng Square, very close to my office. I usually went there around 3-4 times (the fair ran for a month) but this year I only went there twice. However, I still enjoyed my visits as on my first one I got to carry a civet that smells like pandan leaves. Locals called this cute thing "musang pandan" or pandan civet, and I think some of them still dwell on the roof of my house.

On my second visit to Flona I bought a couple of rosemaries. And again I secretly sniffed it on the bus on my way home.

For more photos from the Flona, visit my blog here.

 

Book-smelling

One of the 25 signs that you're addicted to books (according to this fun list in Buzzfeed) is this:

hoorah to book-smelling!

mini bliff

As you have probably guessed, mini bliff is a small version of bliff, an olfactory board game I developed for my thesis at Leiden University a couple of years ago. I decided to develop a mini bliff to make it easier to transport, and to easily introduce my game to novice players.

So, if you're in Jakarta and want to try to play the mini bliff, please don't hesitate to contact me. I will be more than happy to arrange some mini bliff sessions :-)