Re: TOTD 102808: best analog

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Adam Gottschalk wrote:

> What to you is the best analog for perfumery? Music? Painting?

> Poetry? Is it simply smells to you and that's it? Math or science?

> Medicine?

>

Hi Folks....

This a tough one...that may vary from person to person....

I see it as half chemistry, half botany, half art, half psychology.....

I realize that's too many halves...but I think that barely describes it....

Because of the process of olfaction, it's kinda it own unique thing...

And what perfunery is, is gonna mean something different due to somone's

point of view of perfumes....

Back during a checkered youth...perfume to me was Old Spice Lime....and

believe it or not, Hai Karate....

It also meant certain scents certain female acquaintances wore....<G>...

Now....I'm not sure where the intoxication came from...the lady, or her

scent, or both or, other activities of the 70's.....but intoxication it

was....

I became first addicted to jasmine through incense...Indian...the words

mysore and agarbhatti on the box with the sniff test....

Still burn it when I can find it...

Yer probably gonna get a whole buncha takes on this one...

--

W. Bourbonais

L'Hermite Aromatique

A.J.P. (GIA)

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> What to you is the best analog for perfumery? Music? Painting?

> Poetry? Is it simply smells to you and that's it? Math or science?

> Medicine?

To me it is analogous to any art, but is on a higher order yet; it

affects the mind more immediately and deeply, it works with

subtleties like no other, it imposes its essence, if you will, more

emphatically. A balanced perfume is virtually identical in conception

to a balanced musical composition, or a balanced canvas (I imagine

Kandinsky would have made a great perfumer), or a poignant and well

executed poem. One works with the same kind of alchemy in all of

them: good confronting bad, dissonance contrasting with consonance,

lofty side by side with the mundane. There is of course some math and

science to it also. Many of us learn the science by experimentation;

the more experienced can talk about it scientifically. In the sense

that is a descendant of the apothecary, it also has elements of

medicine.

I have always been a strong proponent of the unity of knowledge (see

EO 's Consilience if interested).

[Guest guest]

What to you is the best analog for perfumery? Music? Painting?

Poetry? Is it simply smells to you and that's it? Math or science?

Medicine?

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> What to you is the best analog for perfumery? Music? Painting?

> Poetry? Is it simply smells to you and that's it? Math or science?

> Medicine?

>

It's certainly not math or medicine to me. Really, it's a little bit

of all of the above besides those -- as well as literature, and

fantasy. Lots of fantasy there - smelling and blending tends to draw

one to live in one's mind. Not always a bad place to live, when you

have those lovely smells!

Cheers!

Andrine

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> > What to you is the best analog for perfumery? Music?

> Painting?

> > Poetry? Is it simply smells to you and that's it?

> Math or science?

> > Medicine?

Well Analog is stuck in my mind as a picture

so here goes

Perfumery is like a dream of something past,present and future

continuance (sp)

MUSIC

the Hum of the spheres and ode to joy, sorrow, a past time to bring you out of

suffering the meraphysical cells of the universe in movement

Poetry

Is an attempt to access the unknown restating itself to get clear

Math a reduction of seeming intervals and their relationships

Medicine the path of rightness that heals but can kill as well

I really think i didn't get the meaning of your question

I was blocked by the word analog and couldn't stop

I believe on the thirteenth reading your question is asking us if perfumery

is any of the suggested disciplines...N'est-ce pas?

Amour Toujours

PERFUMERY is love living itself in an expansive moment always

ready to recede if that is the necessity of the extention of time always

changing.

Au revoir mes petites fleurs

Bonne Nuit

I read that flowers sleep...oh la la !

Bb

Coucou BB your Froggy mod played the sub-editor for the French quotations,

that is why you will see some little changes,

" Bisous "

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> What to you is the best analog for perfumery? Music? Painting?

> Poetry? Is it simply smells to you and that's it? Math or science?

> Medicine?

>

Architecture. Art and science, structure and space, beauty and function;

elevating or

comforting or simple or complex or transparent or hidden, gothic or modern, etc,

etc.

Of course, this comes from a landscape architect . . . I've finally started

Mandy's workbook,

and notice that I smell some things in shapes. Don't know if this will

continue; I'll see I

guess.

One of many s.

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> > What to you is the best analog for perfumery? Music? Painting?

> > Poetry? Is it simply smells to you and that's it? Math or science?

> > Medicine?

>

> To me it is analogous to any art, but is on a higher order yet; it

> affects the mind more immediately and deeply, it works with

> subtleties like no other, it imposes its essence, if you will, more

> emphatically. A balanced perfume is virtually identical in conception

> to a balanced musical composition, or a balanced canvas (I imagine

> Kandinsky would have made a great perfumer), or a poignant and well

> executed poem. One works with the same kind of alchemy in all of

> them: good confronting bad, dissonance contrasting with consonance,

> lofty side by side with the mundane. There is of course some math and

> science to it also. Many of us learn the science by experimentation;

> the more experienced can talk about it scientifically. In the sense

> that is a descendant of the apothecary, it also has elements of

> medicine.

>

> I have always been a strong proponent of the unity of knowledge (see

> EO 's Consilience if interested).

>

ditto

thanks Adam

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> > > What to you is the best analog for perfumery? Music? Painting?

> > > Poetry? Is it simply smells to you and that's it? Math or science?

> > > Medicine?

> >

See also at Michel Roudnitska's website

http://www.art-et-parfum.com/index.htm

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What to you is the best analog for perfumery? Music? Painting?

Poetry? Is it simply smells to you and that's it? Math or science?

Medicine?

Good evening from Colombia. I had to start participating someday and

this one jumped out at me. I think the only art/science that compares

completely would be the culinary art. Whether it be cooking or eating.

From the selection of ingredients all the way to the end user´s sniff

or swallow...... Norm