What Appeal does Fragrance Have?

By on Dec 27, 2015 in Effective Skin Care | 0 comments

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There’s a reason so much of our focus is on fragrance; it’s because scents enrich our lives,

and creates an atmosphere that can either help calm us or put us into a focused mindset.

Fragrances have associations the world over:

  • Lavender is thought of as a sleep aid, and helps to calm the nerves.
  • Peppermint is to help alleviate stress.
  • Cinnamon takes away fatigue.
  • Citrus tones are associated with cleansing, as well as improving mood and concentration.

By using the power of scents to our advantage, you could feel more comfortable in a variety of situations.

FRAGRANCES AND THEIR EMOTIONAL TIES

Our sense of smell is about 10,000 times more sensitive than any of our other senses, and as such play a big part in how we think and feel.  So do experiment and find your special fragrance.

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As the old saying goes, sex sells. And, arguably, nobody knows this better than the perfume industry. YSL’s Opium, for example, may be named after the drug, but the heavily made-up, scantily clad muses in its advertisements suggest a different kind of temptation. In a television spot for Parisienne, another YSL fragrance, Kate Moss writhes around in the backseat of a car while suggestively rubbing a rose all over her body.

 

For Tom Ford’s latest scent, Cara Delevingne is naked in a pool of orchids. (Believe it or not, that’s one of the designer’s tamer campaigns.) And, in the mass market, who could forget those sexually objectifying Axe ads?Fragrance has a long history with sex and seduction. “The height of that was Cleopatra filling her ship with rose petals, wading knee-deep through them to go and meet Mark Antony, creating the indelible image and smell of a bouquet of roses,” says perfumer Mandy Aftel, the author of Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent.”Seductiveness is embedded in the history of perfume — that’s why it’s lasted across the globe and across the millennia.

 

“Cleopatra’s aim — to seduce by intoxicating the senses — still resonates today. I used to sell perfume on the Upper East Side of New York City, and women frequently requested what was “sexy,” purchasing a scent only if their husbands responded immediately to its charms. I myself have been wearing the same vanilla-clove-musk concoction on every single date for the past three years.

 

However, I felt conflicted recently when I heard a man say, “Fragrance is not successful unless it seduces.” I was at a launch event for two new perfumes by Oribe — yes, the hairdresser — and we had just been taken through the inspiration behind the juices. One was, naturally, a recently opened Birkin bag: the smell of lipstick, expensive leather, and cigarettes. I thought about fragrance — where we apply it, who we wear it for, and how it makes us feel. And, then I thought, Is all of this really just for a guy?

I know you will love to know more from Phillip Picardi so please click on source link below:

http://www.refinery29.com/why-do-we-wear-perfume#page-1

 

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