சுருக்கம்: PerfumePharmer’s Monica Miller asks her fragrance friends about the meaning of scent. Help us explore the topic by leaving comments here or on my Facebook page and be entered into a contest to win a very special gift from The Perfume Critic and L’Artisan Parfumeur.
மோனிகா எழுதுகிறது: “ஒரு FUME தலையில் என்ன இருக்கிறது? FUME HEADS are my new friends. I adore them. They are crazy about scent, collect perfumes, sometimes hundreds of bottles even though they couldn’t possibly wear that much perfume in one lifetime. Does that matter? Methinks not. I find these people charming, considerate, emotionally warm and very very generous in so many ways. What…stands apart in my mind in this delightful community of perfume lovers besides the passion with which they/we describe each new scented “score”, is the dedication to the…nailing down of the differences between each blend of olfactory ingredients…the potion…the jus. It is a never ending topic of discussion, a pastime, a distraction. I love it and I love my new friends.”
Here are the three questions, and click here - PerfumePharmer – to learn how each FUME HEAD chose to answer…
1)”What does scent mean to you?"
2)”What are your earliest childhood scent memories?"
3)”How does the sense of smell relate to/differ from the the other senses?"
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Marlen’s responses:
What does scent mean to you?
Scent means so many things to me – it is one of my fondest joys in life, a constant obsession, a hobby and in some ways a career. Scent is a chance to express my creativity, to use my writing skills and to make new friends. Most importantly, scent is a dynamic, constantly-changing aesthethic pleasure – an art form that I cherish because of its three-dimensional nature.
More humorously, scent also means that I have less space in my tiny one-room apartment for clothing in order to dedicate an entire closet to the ever-growing collection; heartache at not being able to have my entire collection in one geographic location (it currently exists in central Finland, southeastern Pennsylvania and south Florida); and having to make difficult decisions as to which bottles of the 17 that I added to my shopping cart at Parfum1.com I’ll have to remove and dream about purchasing at a later date (last week I painfully went from 17 to 2…deciding on Loewe’s Quizas and Lutens’ ஒளி சாம்பல்).
To elaborate on my comments above, scent went from an interest, to a collection, to a form of communication (scent speaks for me), to a form of personal expression (style), and then to a form of socialization (online and in-person encounters with other aromaholics). Scent later then pervaded my academic pursuits: by building a website for my fragrance writing, I learned how to build websites for my classrooms, students and research. In a strange way, scent has helped me to become a better teacher because of the resources I developed in my pursuit of the next great aroma. Funny how that worked out…
What are your earliest childhood scent memories?
Wrote about this a while back when experimenting with narrative research methods, “The Making of a Perfume Critic”:
ஒருs fragrance, and perfume in particular, has played a major role in the shaping of my writer’s voice, and participation in cultures of fragrance has had a major impact upon my identity, it is impossible to situate myself outside of these cultures. It is because of this privilege of “insider identity” within the fragrance community and my natural inclination towards narrative research that I turned to autoethnography. Afterall, in ethnography the researcher, and his/her interpretive eye, is as much a part of the research as are the subjects being examined.
…I remember my mother’s Shalimar perfume, the mothballs hidden in closets at my grandmother’s apartment, the smell of cedar and pine used to build the summer home I visited as a boy, orange groves in bloom as a child in South Florida, the smells of Disney World (the water rides like Small World and the simulated fire smells of Pirates of Caribbean), rain on asphalt pavement….
How does the sense of smell relate to/differ from the the other senses?
Funny, I actually wrote a paper on this topic as well during my PhD studies “The scented word. Context, intrigue, and the problem of olfactory literacy,” published இங்கே (free registration for the digital copy and lots of other great fragrance-related articles)…As I noted, scent is perhaps the most three dimensional of senses in that although sound and sight are all around me, scent fills those same spaces and then some. It is tangible yet intangible, in my external environment yet internalized inside of me as well…It relates to memory in quite a unique way and although sights and sounds continue to surprise and excite me, they don’t touch the same place within my emotional self that scent does…
What are your answers?
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1)”What does scent mean to you? to me is a complement of my personality
2)”What are your earliest childhood scent memories?” probably the smell of sand and salted water of sea. I was born in the south coast of Spain
3)”How does the sense of smell relate to/differ from the the other senses?” maybe my sense of smell have more “connections” with my memories and overall , with my brain.
1)”What does scent mean to you? Smelling perfume is like feeding the emotions.
2)”What are your earliest childhood scent memories? The scent of forests in spring.
3)”How does the sense of smell relate to/differ from the the other senses? It’s more emotional, primal. I get a more reactive sensation from my sense of smell.
1 – What does scent mean to you?
The sense I love more, it gives me taste for my food, orientation, teaches me what is good what is not, makes me happy when it is good, makes me sick if bad. It is a way to respond to my surroundings. Fundamental!
2 – What are your earliest childhood scent memories?
I remember it vaguely, because I was too little: My father had a friend owner of a drugstore and he gave me a sample, I let it escape from my hands it rolled down the street drain system and I cried. I cried so much they had to call the firebrigade to get the crinkled glass out from the drain otherwise the ‘poor girl’ would die of sorrow and so much crying.
Next day I was all purple with the effort!!!
BTW, the sample was Fleur de Rocaille.
3 – How does the sense of smell relate to/differ from the the other senses?
It is more basic, but it is part of my life and brain and nervous system.
It would be difficult to be happy without it, but even so I would have the ability to recall many scents, because you don’t need to have them near, you can make them up with your imagination and memories, Like the other senses too.
Oooh! Fun!
1- What does scent mean to you? I’m an overthinker. I worry a lot and consider my future and my past. Scent is one of those “interruptions” into thought that bring me back to the moment. They are almost always a pleasure, even when they smell unusual or strange. Scents can also create a mood in a way that other senses cannot: they can comfort in a way that sight, touch, taste, etc cannot. Breathing in a smell changes my thoughts and emotions.
2 – Earliest childhood memories of scent: the chicken coop, the smell of wood being split with an axe, burning leaves, cut grass, aged water in an aquarium, smoke from a wood burning heater, lemon koolaid, plastic doll smells, books, hardwood floors in the sun on our porch, tea in my grandfather’s oversized cups, half frozen lemon meringue pie, mildewy closed guest bedrooms that aren’t used enough or ventilated.This is fun!
3 – How does the sense of smell relate to/differ from the the other senses? Isn’t smell more personal? It seems that way to me. Smell transports me to a place/time/experience with an urgent immediacy that the other senses do not. And it feels more luxurious to me than my other senses. (these are all strange conclusions, but true for me!!)
1) Scent makes me travel in space and time. Perfume can make me feel like I’m in a cathedral in France, in a forest in Japan, in an Indian temple or in the beach.
2) I remember the Nenuco cologne and the scent of lemontrees and orange blossoms in my hometown. And bonefires in the countryside, wet earth and paella in summer afternoons.
3) The sense of smell is the one which make us remember past times so vividly as if we were there again.
1)”What does scent mean to you?"
It’s a message. Silent, invisible, little shy sometimes. Extremely vulnerable to distraction, therefore precious. Hard to copy or dupe, therefore never redundant. For those that notice it – a very important source of information.
2)”What are your earliest childhood scent memories?"
Running behind an old “syrenka” car, inhaling the exhaust fumes. It wasn’t the most efficient engine, so the fumes were full of the smell of gasoline. I still love it.
3)”How does the sense of smell relate to/differ from the the other senses?"
It evokes rapid, emotional response like no other sense. It demands attention and learning first, but then you got the prize – unique pleasuers of smelling.