Molecule 01 Escentric Molecules 2006
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"More Aura Than Fragrance" or "How Noses Don't Need People to Perceive Perfume."
A lot has already been said about the smell and how it smells.
My associations would be most likely to be warm (paradoxically, cool fits too), smooth, wooden metal. Powdery I don't take it was.
I find it fascinating how clearly the difficulty we have in describing completely artificial "new" fragrances comes across in the commissions. My intuition goes first of all over colours and temperature, see above if necessary still materials. But I digress...
I would like to share 2-3 other thoughts:
For me, the fascinating thing about Iso E Super is the way it is perceived. I myself walk at the limit of the ability to smell. I hardly smell it pure (and freshly applied), but I recognize that it is there. Like an aura that influences the overall appearance, without being able to say how.
As a component of perfumes, it is distinctive and usually quite easily identifiable. You can only guess what it does to these perfumes, how it influences and changes them, if you have tried to incorporate it into your compositions yourself. A fascination par excellence. But the development of the fragrance and the symbiosis it enters into with the inherent odour of the wearer is truly wondrous. I can smell pure Molecule 1 after 2 hours better than directly spraying on and then always fundamentally different from wearer to wearer. The fact that the perception then probably also differs from nose to nose makes the mystery become perfect.
But the most interesting for me is the following phenomenon:
If I get into the mist of Molecule 1, I always need 1-2 seconds to identify the sensation as smell, so directly the smell resonates somewhere in my brain. I can then assign it, analyze it etc, but the first impulse is always surprise and amazement.
So I imagine that non-scent-enthusiasts must perceive perfume. A sensory impression that flies under the radar, is perceived, causes a reaction (joy, disgust, surprise, etc.) and can only then be assigned.
Fascinating.
In the history of perfume craftsmanship win milestone, which can hardly be overestimated, like Ambroxan (and in my eyes e.g. also Dihydromyrcenol)!
My associations would be most likely to be warm (paradoxically, cool fits too), smooth, wooden metal. Powdery I don't take it was.
I find it fascinating how clearly the difficulty we have in describing completely artificial "new" fragrances comes across in the commissions. My intuition goes first of all over colours and temperature, see above if necessary still materials. But I digress...
I would like to share 2-3 other thoughts:
For me, the fascinating thing about Iso E Super is the way it is perceived. I myself walk at the limit of the ability to smell. I hardly smell it pure (and freshly applied), but I recognize that it is there. Like an aura that influences the overall appearance, without being able to say how.
As a component of perfumes, it is distinctive and usually quite easily identifiable. You can only guess what it does to these perfumes, how it influences and changes them, if you have tried to incorporate it into your compositions yourself. A fascination par excellence. But the development of the fragrance and the symbiosis it enters into with the inherent odour of the wearer is truly wondrous. I can smell pure Molecule 1 after 2 hours better than directly spraying on and then always fundamentally different from wearer to wearer. The fact that the perception then probably also differs from nose to nose makes the mystery become perfect.
But the most interesting for me is the following phenomenon:
If I get into the mist of Molecule 1, I always need 1-2 seconds to identify the sensation as smell, so directly the smell resonates somewhere in my brain. I can then assign it, analyze it etc, but the first impulse is always surprise and amazement.
So I imagine that non-scent-enthusiasts must perceive perfume. A sensory impression that flies under the radar, is perceived, causes a reaction (joy, disgust, surprise, etc.) and can only then be assigned.
Fascinating.
In the history of perfume craftsmanship win milestone, which can hardly be overestimated, like Ambroxan (and in my eyes e.g. also Dihydromyrcenol)!
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