FRAGRANCE IS FUNCTIONAL

How I learned to stop worrying about art and enjoy my perfume for what it is.

http://salondeparfum-sherapop.blogspot.com/2013/06/fragrance-is-functional-how-i-learned.html

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Sherapop 12 years ago

I'll write to you when I return to FBook, Gold! Probably in August. ;-)

Gold 12 years ago

Very glad to hear that! Good luck with your book - is it a work of fiction? Just curious...

Sherapop 12 years ago

No worries, Gold, I'll continue to write about perfume. I'm doing the wax sample haiku this month because I'm trying to finish a book about something else. I can only do one "big" thing at a time. ;-)

Gold 12 years ago

Yes, in a certain sense you are right and I have to agree - but then again - if you ask yourself the question which of these pleasures you'd "sacrifice" (assuming you'd have to do such a thing) - could you clearly opt for your ability to enjoy music? You know, I am torn. Without perfume, my life would be horrible. Without music, it would be unbearable...

And you write so much and so brilliantly about perfume... I hope your manifesto doesn't announce the end of your review-writing/blogs/essays? It could be understood that way. I'd really miss your presence and your contributions!!!

Sherapop 12 years ago

Hello, Gold! Thank you for your challenging reply to my latest manifesto. I may have gotten a bit carried away, but I do believe that perfume as a "thing in itself" with no connection to the pleasure we derive from it is a fiction. Maybe we disagree about the definition of "functional"? I don't know, but I am convinced that there is a lot more to music than there is to perfume...

Gold 12 years ago

Just "functional fragrances"? Hm. I don't agree. I adore music and studied singing and the piano myself. I don't want to compare the role music plays in my life and the pleasure it gives me to the pleasure I derive from "perfumes" - somehow, dear Shera, the comparison seems inappropriate. Music is also very subjective - why is it that I feel an emotional link to Brahms and can't enjoy rap music? Music is processed in a different part of our brains - it's simply a different SENSE - but not necessarily a more complex or nobler "experience". Music can't be put into words- neither can be perfume. Wouldn't you agree? There's as much muzac and "functional music" as there is "functional" perfume. I don't like the idea of a hierarchy of the senses. Greetings from J.

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