Perfume
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Peau d'Espagne may be mentioned as a highly complex and luxurious perfume, often the favorite scent of sensuous persons, which really owes a large part of its potency to the presence of the crude animal sexual odors of musk and civet. It consists of wash-leather steeped in ottos of neroli, rose, santal, lavender, verbena, bergamot, cloves, and cinnamon, subsequently smeared with civet and musk. It is said by some, probably with a certain degree of truth, that Peau d'Espagne is of all perfumes that which most nearly approaches the odor of a woman's skin; whether it also suggests the odor of leather is not so clear." --Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 "Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent. Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfant, Doux comme les hautbois, verts commes les prairies."--"Correspondances" |
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Perfume is a pleasant smell, scent, odor, fragrance or aroma.
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See also
- Aromatherapy
- Cosmetics
- Fragrance oil
- Incense
- Ittar
- Pheromone
- Pomander
- Potpourri
- Sachet
- Scented water
- Sex in advertising
- Toilet water