Every woman wants to smell divine. But the quest for the right fragrance can be as elusive as that search for the excellent Prince Charming. Yes, there are abundance of fish in the sea. And, sure, it’s easy to steer clear of the cheaper, less desirable, options. But even when you limit yourself to the high-end stuff, the option of fragrance is overwhelming.
Shopping for perfume or cologne is additionally complex by the fact that the olfactory law quickly becomes overwhelmed. After three or four fragrances, your potential to differentiate in the middle of scents is probably shot. And, because you verily have to try fragrance on your own skin (it will react differently with each person’s skin), you’ve probably run out of places to spritz it too!
Scent
Memory & Smell:
While cologne and perfume are known for providing fragrance, perfume bottles have long been sought after for their display-worthy design.
Our sense of smell is deeply related to our faculty of memory. Marcel Proust, the French author, described in great information how a smell from childhood can trigger an intense and involuntary descriptive memory of a clear event and emotional state.
It makes sense, then, that we are attracted to fragrances that are somehow related to clear memories, however abstractly. The types of fragrance each of us is drawn to will fall into one of two camps: light and dark.
A Lighter Fragrance Touch
As the name suggests, light fragrances are floral, ozonic and fresh. They evoke a sense cleanliness and youth, smelling of line-dried laundry and fresh growth, of freshly chopped wood, spring rain and newborn babies.
Even in the sterile environment that most modern homes and offices epitomize, there exists a desire for a fragrance that spells “clean”, but yet adds gentle warmth to our anonymous surroundings. Lighter scents achieve this task with subtlety and style. Their wearers are vivacious and playful, yet they don’t take themselves too seriously.
But though these discount designer fragrances are light, they are not necessarily un-complex: The bouquet can be a blend of many floral fragrances, with dashes of fruit, citrus, water or ‘green’ notes such as grass and herbs, which will evolve differently on each wearer.
A limited on the Darker Side
At the other end of the Globe, there are dark fragrances. Dark scents are not the natural option of most girls: They’re gritty, tenacious, dirty and full of depth. They smell like old books, of worn leather, wet earth and rotting wood.
The former purpose of all fragrance was, of course, to stop us from stinking in times when population could not bathe daily; hence the name “toilet water” or eau de toilette. The ingredients chosen were ones that signalled freshness, like lemon, lavender and roses; ingredients we associate with lighter scents. But population soon advanced a use for fragrance beyond that of plain deodorizer, and there lies the origin of darker fragrances.
In 18th century France, perfumers began to add excrement, diluted extremely, to floral fragrances to generate depth and complexity. Nowadays, the equivalent ingredient is musk, which will add an animal note to any fragrance.
Of course, the former perfumer employs these ingredients with skill. Adding musk to floral and fruit scents will generate a sickly, sweet scent, that’s at once nauseating and luxurious. Dark fragrances speak of a woman who is sexual, confident, mysterious and passionate.
Signature Scents:
Whether you gravitate towards dark or light perfume or cologne, at some point you’ll find one you adore. Then the clear request becomes whether that fragrance is a life-long love or a fickle fling.
But there’s an inherent Catch-22 in adopting a signature scent: On one hand, you’ll leave a definite imprint on people’s subconscious memory. You’ll be forever related with that fragrance and it will come to be a part of your personality, a part of your identity – like the colour of your eyes or the sound of your laughter.
On the other hand, the longer you wear a fragrance, the less you’ll be able to detect it yourself. You won’t yourself enjoy the waft of fragrance that a man smells when he kisses the nape of your neck. You’ll also have to come to be a pro about how much you apply. Those ghastly ladies who wear too much perfume probably can’t smell the fact they’ve gone overboard!
Myself, I’m a big fan of the signature scent. I’ve been wearing the same fragrance for more than 15 years and although I have had the odd affair with someone else fragrance, I’ve always come back to my trustworthy signature scent. And returning has been like reconnecting with an old lover; there’s a sense of familiarity and reinforcement of a deeply-ingrained identity.
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