A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Damascenone

Perfumery
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A potent aroma material with fruity, rosy, floral, and slightly woody facets.

Detailed Definition
Damascenone is a powerful trace material that can lend rose compositions depth, fruitiness, and a dark, almost wine-like diffusion. Used poetically, it may signify the hidden force inside a seemingly delicate flower: bruised petals, ripened fruit, or a perfume that turns darker as it warms. The term suits poems about transformation, when beauty becomes complicated by heat, age, desire, or the pressure of being remembered.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may use damascenone to deepen a rose image with hints of fruit, tobacco, and dark sweetness; In an elegy, “damascenone in the roses” could make the flowers seem mature, shadowed, and emotionally complex; The term can suggest how a trace ingredient changes a floral composition without becoming its most obvious note; A perfume poem might present damascenone as the hidden dusk beneath a bright rose.
Additional Notes
Damascenone is exceptionally potent, so trace amounts can transform a formula. Its dark rosy, plum-like, fruity, and slightly woody character adds richness and depth to floral, fruity, and amber compositions. It is related to the odor profile of damask rose but is not simply rose oil.
Also Known As
Beta-Damascenone Rose Ketone
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