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How utterly bizarre... (scents)
Sep. 18th, 2006 12:13 pmI've been whining and pacing because, while I joyously placed my Black Phoenix Alchemy lab order a week or so back, it takes 21-31 days (zounds!) for orders to be shipped. I recognize that buying MORE perfume before the FIRST perfume has been shipped is nothing short of ludicrous. I wanna do it anyway.
Consequently, I have been doing the Internet equivalent of wandering back and forth through the Black Phoenix Alchemy aisles for the last three days or so and staring goggle-eyed at the stock. And, while doing this, I have discovered something totally odd.
As a quick reminder, I'm talking about scents I haven't even SMELLED, let alone worn. All I have are descriptions.
Over the last three days, my opinions of what samples I should buy in my next purchase have varied drastically on a day-to-day basis. Saturday was all light, ethereal scents, Sunday left me craving spice and musk, and today I find myself wanting to buy ylang ylang and rose.
I know that the sense of smell has strong, subtle links to emotion and memory, but this seems a bit much.
I think it's a mystique thing -- mystique-induced olfactory mood reaction. (I wonder if I would do this with clothing and jewelry if I ever Internet shopped for them?)
In any case, I'm buying a spread, because I don't know how these scents react with my skin and I don't want to (for example) buy twelve citrus-based scents only to discover that BPAL citrus smells like furniture polish on me. Once I've actually tried some of them, I can then say "oo, I want more amber" or "yuck, I smell like baby powder" or whatever is applicable.
How utterly strange.
Consequently, I have been doing the Internet equivalent of wandering back and forth through the Black Phoenix Alchemy aisles for the last three days or so and staring goggle-eyed at the stock. And, while doing this, I have discovered something totally odd.
As a quick reminder, I'm talking about scents I haven't even SMELLED, let alone worn. All I have are descriptions.
Over the last three days, my opinions of what samples I should buy in my next purchase have varied drastically on a day-to-day basis. Saturday was all light, ethereal scents, Sunday left me craving spice and musk, and today I find myself wanting to buy ylang ylang and rose.
I know that the sense of smell has strong, subtle links to emotion and memory, but this seems a bit much.
I think it's a mystique thing -- mystique-induced olfactory mood reaction. (I wonder if I would do this with clothing and jewelry if I ever Internet shopped for them?)
In any case, I'm buying a spread, because I don't know how these scents react with my skin and I don't want to (for example) buy twelve citrus-based scents only to discover that BPAL citrus smells like furniture polish on me. Once I've actually tried some of them, I can then say "oo, I want more amber" or "yuck, I smell like baby powder" or whatever is applicable.
How utterly strange.
