Going from perfume to smell
In addition to living with our fellow human beings, with animals, with viruses, with flat earthers, with price taggers and television panelists with dubious IQ – so much so that I doubt they know the meaning of “IQ”, much less “intellectual” -, in the daily life We live with the sensations that our senses transmit to us.
And it can’t be helped. When something smells, bad or good, you feel it. AND That’s what I’m going to talk about: what enters us through the nose. Eye: I speak of legal things. I mean the scents. And from the outset you have to define things, with the right words.
Because the aromas, the perfumes, the essences, the fragrances are the words that positively describe the thing. On the other hand, stink, smell, vaho, railing, stench, pestilence, sputza, You don’t even want to breathe anymore. But one lives with the smells. Especially if he lives with a smelly partner. But I wasn’t referring to that, but rather to the fact that it is one of our most precious senses: nothing like the smell of coffee in the morning, or of roasting, or of fried onions and garlic, which at any time of the day, whet your appetite, so Before you’ve downed a whole pot of Spanish tripe.
What do those aromas have like freshly brewed coffee? They are able to get you out of bed without even giving you a slap. Of course: they arouse your appetite, thirst, desire for pleasure. On the other hand, the smell of fresh grass, rain, wet grass, does not get you out of bed. On the contrary, it makes you want to hibernate.
The problem with aromas arises when smell cannot be defined what it is: The smell of clean, for example. It is not a clean smell, but is generally associated with the fragrance of laundry soap, fabric softener, furniture polish, even some find the smell of bleach, anti-dandruff shampoo, slippery bathtub pleasant. That’s a clean smell, even if it isn’t. It is enough to throw a jet of bleach and not clean and you already have a feeling of cleanliness. Therefore: be careful with the senses. They are like some political slogans: very misleading.
And the concept of pleasant scent varies from person to person. “Nothing like the smell of Napalm in the morning” said Robert Duvall’s character in “Apocalypsis Now”. But without going that far, how many of you like the smell of freshly loaded gasoline? AND believe it or not, there are people for whom the smell of boiled cauliflower awakens their appetiteand even the desire to drink a glass of freshly loaded gasoline.
There are people who have more extreme tastes. He prefers that his partner, instead of smelling like French perfume, smell like baked chicken with potatoes. It is absolutely subjective. There are people who enjoy the smell of wet dog, and for me, it is the second most unpleasant thing in the world. The first: it is a couple with the smell of a wet dog.
It is that smell, like taste, and the other senses, is educated. And mothers do it unconsciously. How many times as children we went along the road, and your mother made you open the window and told you: “smell, smell the green”, as if the smell were in the color. And we all opened the windows and breathed in the “smell of green”. Until a skunk crossed, and then yes, you closed the windows, the vent and discovered that maybe that so famous that smelled bad in Denmark was not a broccoli soup, but a skunk stew…
And since we need things to smell good, someone invented room deodorizers. And there are some scary names for air freshener scents: the one that comes with “baby smell”, for example: How many babies do you sacrifice to make one of those tubes? And one more terrible question: the baby smell, is it the smell of a freshly bathed baby or is it still in diapers without changing?
And the exotic names they give to fragrances: “Cotton fields” (as if the cotton field couldn’t smell like manure), “Energy Awakening” – (Believe me, I’m not making it up, it exists). What kind of energy? Gasoline, kerosene, pickled beans? “Polar Breeze” (and they show you a photo of Antarctica), as if the smell of the polar breeze that brings the smell from the island of the seals, or of the transpired whales, were pleasant.
And it is that people believe that the deodorant neutralizes another smell and it is not like that. The only thing you do when throwing deodorant to cover up a stink… is cover it up and mix it with another scent! Big mistake. that alone results in an even fouler smell than the original. And it even warns the unsuspecting visitor that you tried to cover up an unpleasant odor before their arrival.
And me I have a problem with certain people and certain smells. It annoys me those people who come and tell you: “I smelled that rotten smell this has”, and unscrupulously brings it up to your nose. If it smells rotten, why do you make me smell it?
And I’m also bothered by those who don’t eat oranges or tangerines “because it leaves an odor on their hands”, but they go to wash the car and They let you put a first step that the car smells like a temporary shelter for a week.
As a comedian named Rita Rudner once said: “The thing I will never understand about scents is why do women kill themselves putting on perfume that smell like flowers, if men don’t like flowers. Wouldn’t it be better if they used, I don’t know, new car interior perfume, or soccer ball perfume?”
And it’s true: there is the smell of new: new book, new car, new CD, new furniture, new bill… although this, in general, and regardless of its nominal value, is worth much less than what you think its aroma is worth. .
