Sherri Koehler (she/her)

A break from dystopian healthcare choices to whinge on about #Day4 of #Diamine #Inkvent2025:

Full disclosure: I believe I grew out of scented ink being interesting at 11 or 12 (current age: Moon Landing Years Old).

Seriously though, who is the person that said, “I know what the world wants in an advent calendar, the scent of tobacco! That’s festive AF, that is!”

While #SmokyTobacco thankfully doesn’t smell like a club I might have frequented in my youth, it also fails to smell like quality pipe tobacco. It unfortunately smells rather like the aftershave a young human, new to shaving and wearing scent, would enthusiastically select.

#FountainPenInk #Ink #InkSwatching #FountainPenNerd

Dec 5 at 12:47amWeb
Show threadleeceDec 5
@PDXyogini that said, while it's yucky, it's still not as yucky as the rest of the Diamine scented inks I've encountered in some of their other calendars.
Show threadSherri Koehler (she/her)Dec 5

@leece last year’s Fruit Cocktail was vile smelling. Forest Gateau “wasn’t wholly awful”.

I avoided the first year there did it because I had no desire to have that many bottles of scented ink. I’m glad they limit the gimmick since none really smell nice.

Tobacco though!? Santa’s pipe being the connection?

Show threadSherri Koehler (she/her)Dec 5

@leece I tell myself, “You’re not required to actually smell it!!”

And yet, I have to smell it.

Show threadleeceDec 5
@PDXyogini it part of the .... Experience
Show threadleeceDec 5

@PDXyogini oh, yes the Forest Gateau wasn't revolting. That Fruit cocktail was lamentable.

Yeah the choice of Tobacco hasn't really read the room, no one likes secondhand smoke, and, and this, this is more thirdhand, and someone has tried to ge trid of it with air freshener. Has Uncle Dave lit up inside the house before Christmas Dinner and is trying to hide it?