So many great quotes in this! Smell needs no interpreter, indeed.
I love nothing better than eating flowers. Now I know why. Their infusion is my own perfume. When it’s dandelion season, I am out there collecting fresh blooms to fritter each day until I turn yellow! Then come sweet violets, buttery lilies, nasturtium with their peppery spike… ultimately to the squash blossoms in mass to satisfy my flowery appetite into autumn.
Fascinating history of using smoke as a mask, as purifier and enhancer—it really set the table for me as I read the rest of the article. Put in this context as part of a recipe, rather than a cloak, fragrance becomes the potion we seek for many kinds of magic brought into daily ritual. Modern day use and application of artificially developed chemicals in a bottle or bar delivery system have destroyed the ethos of an everyday mysticism we could have at our fingertips. It takes little to note the air on a walk after rain, smell the chlorophyll while tearing kale, take in the herbal range of glory of a cut wild lawn.
We are what we eat, we smell like our diets as much as anything else. Rather than reaching for false prophets of irresistibly, might I suggest considering a more vibrant, naturally sourced meal would improve not only our longevity but our love life as well?!
Oh my yes! Tabu! So overpowering! It was popular in Montreal in the 1950’s and 1960’s. As with the first Commenter, after years in a fragrance-free workplace I stopped applying scent, save for soap, shampoo, skin cream etc. Since I retired, however, I have not resumed applying scent. My mother had worn Muguet de Bois or the similar Nina Ricci L’Air de Temps. When I did use scent I favoured similar light florals or “Green”, Herbal scents such as Balmain’s Vent Vert.
With summer now approaching here I am reminded of the often oppressive scent of over-perfumed riders on crowded and hot public transit vehicles. Another “gift” of retirement is that I do not need transit as frequently.
This is timely! I've recently started wearing perfume again after years of avoiding it due to scent-free workplace policies. Now that I am a fully remote employee, I realized I could wear it again again. It is amazing how much more I feel like myself. I do sympathize with those who are sensitive to scents (some give me headaches too), but I also love my perfume! I don't bathe in it, but one person's light scent is another's wall of unbearable fragrance, so...I don't really know what the answer is here. In the meantime, I smell amazing and I feel great and this is one more reason that I never want to work in an office ever again.
So many great quotes in this! Smell needs no interpreter, indeed.
I love nothing better than eating flowers. Now I know why. Their infusion is my own perfume. When it’s dandelion season, I am out there collecting fresh blooms to fritter each day until I turn yellow! Then come sweet violets, buttery lilies, nasturtium with their peppery spike… ultimately to the squash blossoms in mass to satisfy my flowery appetite into autumn.
Fascinating history of using smoke as a mask, as purifier and enhancer—it really set the table for me as I read the rest of the article. Put in this context as part of a recipe, rather than a cloak, fragrance becomes the potion we seek for many kinds of magic brought into daily ritual. Modern day use and application of artificially developed chemicals in a bottle or bar delivery system have destroyed the ethos of an everyday mysticism we could have at our fingertips. It takes little to note the air on a walk after rain, smell the chlorophyll while tearing kale, take in the herbal range of glory of a cut wild lawn.
We are what we eat, we smell like our diets as much as anything else. Rather than reaching for false prophets of irresistibly, might I suggest considering a more vibrant, naturally sourced meal would improve not only our longevity but our love life as well?!
Oh my yes! Tabu! So overpowering! It was popular in Montreal in the 1950’s and 1960’s. As with the first Commenter, after years in a fragrance-free workplace I stopped applying scent, save for soap, shampoo, skin cream etc. Since I retired, however, I have not resumed applying scent. My mother had worn Muguet de Bois or the similar Nina Ricci L’Air de Temps. When I did use scent I favoured similar light florals or “Green”, Herbal scents such as Balmain’s Vent Vert.
With summer now approaching here I am reminded of the often oppressive scent of over-perfumed riders on crowded and hot public transit vehicles. Another “gift” of retirement is that I do not need transit as frequently.
This is timely! I've recently started wearing perfume again after years of avoiding it due to scent-free workplace policies. Now that I am a fully remote employee, I realized I could wear it again again. It is amazing how much more I feel like myself. I do sympathize with those who are sensitive to scents (some give me headaches too), but I also love my perfume! I don't bathe in it, but one person's light scent is another's wall of unbearable fragrance, so...I don't really know what the answer is here. In the meantime, I smell amazing and I feel great and this is one more reason that I never want to work in an office ever again.