DaleW wrote:
> I'll disagree here. Take a soft good-quality pencil (a 1 or 2) and
> taste the sharpened end - there's a distinct taste there, and that's
> what I'm referencing (don't use a hard pencil or mechanical pencil
> lead, there's too much filler). That's a very distinctly different
> creature than the aroma of pencil shavings,which is much more
> wood-driven.

Hmmm... I'm clearly going to have to do some research, Dale. I suspect
that we're talking about the same flavor/smell, but that remains to be
seen. I agree that the smell of an unsharpened pencil is definitely
*not* what I'm talking about, but honestly it's been so long since I've
sharpened a pencil that I'll have to track down a sharpener tomorrow
just to refresh my memory.

>
> I'm not familiar enough with Parker's notes to say whether he uses
> pencil-lead/graphite interchangeably with pencil shavings, but I don't.
> The former (to me)has a distinctly mineral note, more taste than aroma,
> the latter is aromatically woody.

OK. More on this later...

Mark Lipton