Feeling happy to see my home and I was walking little fast to reach quickly, cause I was so tired after moving the whole day. Noticed the smile of the watchman and entered the elevator.
WOW… again!!!
A sweet and charming fragrance seized my tiredness & threw somewhere. It’s a lady who left the elevator about 3-4 minutes ago but still her aroma was whispering her tales. Every time I smell it and try to draw that lady till I reach to 5th floor, my home. May be someday I’ll be successful in this sweet mysterious mission….
Fragrance… wraps us with prudence that pierces through our nose and flows direct to our heart. Without any falter our eyes get closed, heart get blown and takes somewhere in heaven. This, not only gives us the sagacity of imagination but also the traditions and customs of our ancient fathers…
Even when we just hear the word Perfume, What first comes to our mind??
Floral, musky, delicate, bold, spicy, sweet, feminine, masculine are all words used to describe something very abstract, a scent.
To smell clean is to be clean… And we smell……
Smell is a window of our heart. Mothers and their babies bond through smell. Smell triggers memories buried long in our unconscious, as our sense of smell is linked directly to the limbic system, the oldest part of the brain, which is the seat of emotion and memory.
Alliance Française, she consigned me a sip of honey of French culture that I became wild to drink the whole bottle. We know, French are rich in each and every type of arty things. Apart of everything, Perfume is incomparable creation by the French, & it made me bound to go though those fragrance-ways they walked 300 years ago. When I started to learn about their perfume customs, it opened my senses.
History books said me it is the Egyptians who invented perfume as a way to anoint and embalm their dead. According to Wikipedia I got, the first perfumes were incense, which explains the actual origins of the word “perfume”. It comes from the Latin words, “per” and “fumus”, which mean “through” and “smoke”. So it was through the burning of resins and woods that these fragrances were achieved. And they were used for religious ceremonies.
I heard, it was in the 18th century that France was introduced with the smell of the perfume and later on perfume industry grown enormously. Now it has completely taken over the perfume industry. And you know what?
“Today French perfume is considered as the best and it is mostly used by upper strata of the society due to its expensive price.”
With the change in perfume industry in the technique, materials and style of perfume formulation, French perfume are now can be availed by the middle income group. Before that, it was considered as a product possessed by only the elite section of the society. Due to the development of new fragrances, perfume has undergone profound changes which helped to bring out the finest quality oil based French perfumes. And, it made me happy cause at least I could buy one if I can go to France someday. Lolzz…
After browsing so many websites, I got Paris is a home for many worlds’ best selling perfumes. And the classic perfumes made by Channel, Yves Saint Laurent and Lagerfeld or Avant Gard perfumes of Jean Paul Gautier and French connection, after getting these names I just started explore their precious life stories along with their manifest creations. First of all its said that “the best French perfumes could be said to be that of “Chanel No. 5″ by Coco Chanel and “Joy” by Jean Pateau”.
it was only a start of my journey…
