Fragrance Language: How perfumes express us?

No doubt, perfumes attract us with pleasure they creates. If we have to answer “why do we love perfume,” of course, first of all it is because perfume, like all beautiful things, makes us feel happy. I found a wonderful description of a woman on how the perfume impacts her senses and feelings: „What I love most about perfume is that it can move me, in a very personal, intimate way. Sometimes a perfume can really speak to me and I can connect to it, it can touch me in my heart and in my soul, it can evoke memories and emotions, and it can kiss awake sides of my personality that were asleep for too long. It fascinates me and I think it is maybe an aspect you can find in all forms of art.” Not by chance that French symbolism manifested itself through sent and even introduces the phrase “perfume of soul”. Let’s just remember Correspondences of Charles Baudelaire:” Possessing the diffusion of infinite things,/Like amber, musk, incense and aromatic resin,/Chanting the ecstasies of spirit and senses.” (In translation of Geoffrey Wagner, Selected Poems of Charles Baudelaire (NY: Grove Press, 1974).

In the same time pleasant and enjoyable fragrances spur our imagination and open our minds and fantasy. Every perfume like every person has its own character and in the same time we choose it according to our perceptions and our character. And often other people we are in a relationship with associate or remember us with specific fragrance or perfume we used. Fragrances last even more in memory. They save the presence of someone from oblivion. Perfumes may create a tangible link between peoples even though many of us are separated by long distances, especially when we date on-line, for instance. Christian Dior once said, “A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.” So I think when we get knowing better it is good to know the fragrance liked by the Other as everyone more or less express own personality with a personal fragrance. Once I thought that using the same perfume for a long time is a kind of my own “landmark”, but know I found it more exiting to have different perfumes for different moods and tune them according to the moment. Lately I found that Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme creates positive impact on me. So, it is two-way street.
Lately I mostly use Alien of Thierry Mugler and skin lotion that makes me happy.
Yet I odor the smell of freshly cut grass, sea breeze, white and freezing snow smell in a sunny day, freesia in my vase, a little bit sad scent of autumn leaves…
Now, it is your turn to share why do you love perfume? What kind of? How it express you?
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It showed me totally different perfumes that I do not use. But why not try? May be new frontiers of senses would open to me…