{"id":471,"date":"2010-04-06T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/?p=471"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T19:59:05","slug":"perfumes-chemical-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/perfumes-chemical-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfume\u2019s Chemical Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After receiving my May 2010 issue of\u00a0<em><strong>Marie Claire Magazine<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0today, I sighed and thought \u201cAhh, just want the doctor ordered\u2026now I can relax on the couch and read it cover to cover before the school bus arrives to interrupt my solitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was enjoying an afternoon of relaxation, with the warm breeze blowing in through the open doors, the birds chirping and the sweet scent of the orange blossoms filtering through from the Navel trees outside. \u00a0I flip to the\u00a0<strong>article on perfume<\/strong>, and was delighted! My favorite subject, and near the end\u2026what a great ending to this fabulous issue.<\/p>\n<p>I started reading \u201c<em>My Chemical Romance<\/em>\u201d by Martha McCully, and my blood started boiling\u2026what is she talking about! \u00a0Hating perfumes, who is this wack-job and why are they letting her write a piece on perfume?!?! \u00a0I read further thinking it will get better, and we come to the \u201cvomit reflex\u201d portion of the article. \u00a0What? \u00a0Seriously?\u00a0 Sure, I can see an aversion to an ingredient or two, but a vomit response\u2026give me a break.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cI have a love\/hate relationship with fragrance\u2026 It\u2019s just like a love affaire\u2026 Although I truly want to love perfume, I can actually feel sick when I smell it,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0says this author.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The author relating her love\/hate reactions towards a perfume with a love affaire was ridiculous!\u00a0 Why not stick with the subject\u2026relating our \u201cfirst date\u201d impressions with a perfume\u2019s top notes, the infatuation period of courtship with the heart notes, and the stability and commitment ratings of your beau with a fragrance base notes. \u00a0This would have been a much more plausible correlation between a love-affaire and perfume.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>This is my idea of relating a fragrance&#8217;s bouquet to a love-affaire&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Top Notes &#8211; first-date impressions<\/li>\n<li>Heart Notes &#8211; courtship&#8217;s infatuation period<\/li>\n<li>Base Notes &#8211; relationship&#8217;s stability and commitment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I \u201cgot\u201d the point the author was trying to make,\u00a0<em>sort of<\/em>, but her reasoning was totally off.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Experts the author interview said\u2026<em>\u201cWhat you like or don\u2019t like has to do with your brain\u2026 Fragrances can trigger certain pathways that stimulate what\u2019s called the vomit center.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s not the emotions and memories evoked by a scent. I don\u2019t wear strong florals because I don\u2019t want to smell like my mom, and I don\u2019t want my husband wearing Old Spice because I\u2019ll picture my grandfather while we make-out\u2026but that doesn\u2019t mean that I \u201chate\u201d florals or have the urge to \u201cvomit\u201d when I smell cheap aftershave.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the chemical versus natural ingredients. The striking scent of the orange blossoms and the mingling fragrance of my wilting Petunias and Alyssums are beautiful in my garden, but they don\u2019t belong in a bottle on my dressing table.\u00a0 Natural aromas are best in their natural environment, and labs can make truer scents more stable that keep longer in our perfumes\u2026or we wouldn\u2019t shell out $50 a pop, right ladies?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I agree with Veronique Ferval, from IFF, that was quoted as saying\u00a0<em>\u201cFor me. It\u2019s not about synthetic versus natural. You need both to make a creation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s not that we hate being bombarded with scent, if we truly didn\u2019t like it, companies would stop making scented-everything.\u00a0 The fact is, we love it! No hate involved.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201chating\u201d happens when the scents surrounding us\u00a0<em>don\u2019t mix well<\/em>\u00a0together for \u201cus\u201d as an individual.<\/p>\n<p>The aversion to perfume this author writes about is inaccurate, it\u2019s dislike to a combination of scents\u2026that\u2019s why we all like different perfumes, we like diverse \u201cbouquets\u201d of fragrance. \u00a0Most perfume houses don\u2019t release a body care line after the initial launch of a new scent, so we tend to mix and match lotions and gels, and perfumes willy-nilly based on what\u2019s on hand. \u00a0The result is often disastrous. \u00a0The ideal is to use all the smelly-stuff to create a cohesive bouquet of aroma that is beautiful to each individual, and I promise any repugnance will dissipate.<\/p>\n<p>I have a small fascination with fragrance, from my Yankee Candles to my Nag Champa incense, from my weekly visits to Bath &amp; Body Works to my monthly visits to the Macy\u2019s perfume counter, from my scented car fresheners to my 20 minute decision on what I want my clothes to smell like when selecting a fabric softener at Target. Well, maybe it\u2019s more of scent obsession. My gal-pals have encouraged me to blog about my opinions and knowledge of fragrance\u2026since I\u2019m the go-to gal for all things smelly. On a recently created blog at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theperfumegirl.com\/\">www.theperfumegirl.com<\/a>, I started a new series on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/2010\/04\/dkny-be-delicious-and-enchanted-orchid\/\">Scent-Combos<\/a>, the pairing of scented body wash and lotion with a perfume. If we could inform others about what scent group they like and help them design a collection of similar fragrant items, we could transform the world of scent and convert all these \u201cHaters\u201d to be like us!<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Although my \u201cchemical reaction\u201d to this article was not\u00a0great\u2026 the rest of the issue is, as always,\u00a0Spectacular!\u00a0 Check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marie Claire<\/a>\u00a0website to read about the no-makeup, \u2018o natural beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/perfumes\/fragrances\/jessica-simpson\/\">Jessica Simpson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After receiving my May 2010 issue of\u00a0Marie Claire Magazine\u00a0today, I sighed and thought \u201cAhh, just want the doctor ordered\u2026now I can relax on the couch and read it cover to cover before the school bus arrives to interrupt my solitude.\u201d I was enjoying an afternoon of relaxation, with the warm breeze blowing in through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[24,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theperfumegirl.com\/fragrance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}