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[Nungali]

Nah .... I  gotta dump on that one ...... having an absolute love of the smell of pine trees .   I never had to stick my face in them to smell them . 

 

His cape and coffee are shitty  too . 

 

NOW  back on topic and to something not silly  (like pine trees not smelling ) 

 

If your baby needs a facepalm  but your palm is too big to do it for him  .....

 

 

Edited May 25 by Nungali

[Mark Foote]

[Taomeow]

7 hours ago, Nungali said:

Nah .... I  gotta dump on that one ...... having an absolute love of the smell of pine trees .   I never had to stick my face in them to smell them . 

 

I specified that it's about a pine tree brought indoors as a Christmas tree, not a live pine tree in the forest.  I love the smell in nature too -- in fact the last thing that still remains of my once profound love of California is the smell of Torrey pines and cedars mixed with the smell of sage and the ocean on a hot summer day.  When coming back from somewhere else I used to smell it even just stepping out of the door at the airport, despite many miles of highway fumes in between.  BUT a pine tree that's been cut god knows how long ahead of the holidays and brought indoors is a different story.  All those terpenes that give it the unique piney smell are volatile -- and largely fizzle out and disappear in transition.  Fir trees, on the other hand...  I don't know, they are stronger or maybe they were fresher back when I had access to them for the holiday season.  That was the New Year's smell (that's what we celebrated) -- fir tree smell mixed with the smell of mandarins hung on it for edible decorations and the smell of fresh snow that intermixed with it every time someone opened the door.  

Edited May 26 by Taomeow

[Nungali]

18 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 

I specified that it's about a pine tree brought indoors as a Christmas tree, not a live pine tree in the forest. 

 

Yeah .....  my first encounters with them was  in the home at Christmas , I had never been in a pine forest until I was about 8 .   I can remember smelling it through the house and would take the end seat on the lounge nearest it , if I could . However there are many types of 'pine' trees , maybe this accounts for it . 

 

How's this for a variation ; 

 

Greek pine nuts 

 

 

Aussie pine nuts 

 

 

 

 

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I love the smell in nature too -- in fact the last thing that still remains of my once profound love of California is the smell of Torrey pines and cedars mixed with the smell of sage and the ocean on a hot summer day. 

 

 

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When coming back from somewhere else I used to smell it even just stepping out of the door at the airport, despite many miles of highway fumes in between.  BUT a pine tree that's been cut god knows how long ahead of the holidays and brought indoors is a different story.  All those terpenes that give it the unique piney smell are volatile -- and largely fizzle out and disappear in transition. 

 

Ah ha !   That must be it .  I remember Dad and big brother going out to cut them . Only later we bought them, usually from fruit and vegetable markets .   They would be stood up in a bucket of sand . Once when one was thrown 'out the back' ('bushland' ) after use I noticed its cut base had little roots coming out . I was told you cant transplant a pine tree by chopping the top off and sticking it the ground .  I got upset and tried it anyway  and nursed and looked after it and ..... proved them wrong .... HOORAY !  I 'saved' the Christmas tree  !  But then  Dad was ; '' We cant have a big pine tree growing up there ." and pulled it out and dumped it again    . 

 

Another early 'piney memory ' ;  we went on holidays and stayed by the water in a caravan park called 'Pine Park' . I was a bit older now and when we got there it turns out I had my own caravan, first time , I could believe it !  ( Later I realized why    ... all those past holiday Mum and Dad had to 'behave' each night  with little Nungers in there   ). 

 

The noise of the wind through the pines was  just great !  Can't describe all the wonderful effects the noise, the smell, the 'needle mat' underfoot .... abso luved it !  There must be some past connections ?  Anyway I took 'The Wendigo ' by Algernon Blackwood  with me to read  ( have you read that ? ) What a book for a little kid to read , alone at night in a pine forest with the wind noise outside   

 

 

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Fir trees, on the other hand...  I don't know, they are stronger or maybe they were fresher back when I had access to them for the holiday season.  That was the New Year's smell (that's what we celebrated) -- fir tree smell mixed with the smell of mandarins hung on it for edible decorations and the smell of fresh snow that intermixed with it every time someone opened the door.  

 

Sounds very alien to me but also delightful . 

 

We  don't have native fir trees  but do have a variety of pines . This  type  became famous for a while ( but now they are down to less than $100 for a small sapling , at first they were thousands of dollars !  The first ones planted out had a steel bar cage around them . )

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2025/02/06/meet-the-worlds-most-safeguarded-tree-a-jurassic-survivor-thought-extinct-until-1994/.

Edited May 26 by Nungali