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Welcome to the PONK club gymnosium
  After a lengthy care suspension, Mum is now an angel. I'll be back as soon as I can.
Postal Olfactory Nose knowledge

PONK is a regular smelling club where organised group purchase makes it possible to obtain new, interesting and high quality ingredients that are sent to you as a mystery. Your own nose has to do some work and see what it finds. The results are going to be available online to be shared between perfumers and discussed openly.

It will take the form of forum discussion which we hope will be both interesting and gainfully informative as well as fun.

Benefits
Practice
Blind smelling

Even the most experienced perfumer sets aside time everyday to calmly revisit existing ingredients and learn new aroma profiles. This is like ordinary piano practice.

A pianist would get rusty if the hands were not used all the time, and the expert perfumers valued nose is no different.

If you want to know aromas by heart, then you must put the hours and the work in.

It is easy to get complacent but the nose needs regular consistent practice to be good.

 

A regular parcel containing a mystery ingredient/s, will be sent globally to club members to learn from, share information about and use for practice. Perfumers of all levels will participate in an unheard of collaboration, purely for practice and cross pollination of ideas.

In this internet world, we are as close to each other in our virtual labs as we are to our screens. PONK lets us use this ability to share ideas and knowledge.

Membership tiers
PONKlet
basic practice option

A regular mystery parcel with enough sample material to smell and learn from

(the size and form will depend entirely on which ingredient is being sent)

 

£10 per month. Postage inclusive.

Discounts for advance bookings.

 

Membership available as:-

PONK
standard practice option

A regular mystery parcel with a practice sample to smell and to use for practice blends. 

(the size and form will depend entirely on which ingredient is being sent)

 

£20 per month. Postage inclusive.

Discounts for advance bookings.

 

Membership available as:-

 

PONK+
user practice option

A regular mystery parcel with enough to smell and make part of the organ for use.

(the size and form will depend entirely on what ingredient is being sent)

 

£30 per month. Postage inclusive.

Discounts for advance bookings.

 

Membership available as:-

There is no obligation to purchase any more than you would like. You may choose any option that suits you and/or change tiers at any time.

If you change your mind and contact PONK before samples have been prepared, then no box will be sent that month and you will not be charged.

If you cancel completely having paid an advance fee, then you can ask for a refund for the unused months. Prepared boxes made for you will be chargeable

The sample will be prepared a week in advance of their sending. If cancellation is not done before that module is prepared then that mystery box will go ahead.

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PONK can remind you monthly if you would prefer a monthly paypal invoice option rather than an automatic debit monthly commitment.

PONK uses direct links to the established Paypal secure site in order to adopt all their guarantees and security measures regarding personal details.

 

Boxes will always contain good quality products with interest beyond their monitory value. Materials will be selected for their interest and learning. 

Members can expect varied membership benefits over the course of a year, as the group funding will be invested in various fascinating shared bulk purchases.

Contact PONK using the form below for any concerns regarding service or delivery issues. Material discussions will be online where indicated.

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PONK modules can be sent anywhere in the world so please bear in mind on the discussion threads that others may not have theirs yet.

International postage often takes much longer than the postal institutions own guidelines state, but they usually get there in the end.

Please contact PONK if yours has taken longer than four weeks since postage. This is around the longest time a box has taken so far, to Canada from the UK.

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