A photograph I took today struck me with a thought about the meaning of life of the perfume; to make appear something that is not really there. A perfume is more than the sum of its parts. A perfume can be considered a form of magic, but not the type of magic of witches and devils. Perfume is the magic of a magician, it is a trick meant to create illusions. It creates something that cannot be touched but is made from tangeable materials (aromachems). This photograph is actually just coats draped over my hatrack in a random way, but at the correct angle what we get is in fact the face of a person; something so lifelike we feel that it will almost start to speak to us (tell us to buy Nabob coffee no doubt).
A few modifiers layered over a basic accord can give a rose that is so lifelike you can almost feel the prick of its thorn ;)
3 comments:
What a delightful photograph and analogy! You blog is a pleasure to read.
If you can create a perfume like you composed the photo (o felix culpa), you will have succeeded in the very process you describe.
haha, they say this is the way Iris Gris was created ;)
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