For this one, I decided to change up the tone a bit and talk about what makes perfumes and fragrances special for me. I was originally going to grab some other people's opinions from the internet, then I realized how much I could really talk about this topic. So here it is, what makes me perfumes and fragrances special for me:
There's something about scents from the day that we are born that makes us remember an experience until the end of time, literally. The ability for the human being to scent is how we can sense what's nearby and how we are able to perceive what might be about to uncoil in front of us. For example, when you were a kid, you remember what it was like when you were about to have a meal. Even if you were two rooms away from the kitchen, you'd still know what was about to happen. You were about eat.
I remember the first perfume I ever bought, it had PACO printed on it. I loved spraying it on when I went to birthday parties and events. I also loved spraying it on just to spray it on. Sometimes I would pretend that I was going on somewhere important... just to spray it on.
While remembering perfumes and fragrances is obviously not as fresh in my mind as remembering the scent of food, I still do remember them and the experiences that I lived through while experiencing these scents. When our minds remember a scent, we can directly connect it to an experience we've had before. It's astonishing, and it can hardwire our brain to sense a positive experience, allowing us to get sneak peak of what's about to come and even to look back and remember it forever. Even now when I'm 32 years old I can look back to third grade and remember these scents like it was yesterday.
Right now, what comes through my mind more often from childhood are scents and fragrances that other people used. I recall these experiences as a little kid, while getting ready to go to events, my mother would smell spectacular. She'd always spray something on that would signify the experience, the adventure that was about to come. Unavoidably, now I can also remember all the mornings when we would take off to school and work. My parents would first drop us off at school, and then they'd take off to work. It was always 8am in the weekdays that we would hop on our four-door Ford Sierra, still dark outside where I'm from, and take off. I remember vividly though, the fragrances all intermixed in the car. It was a mixture of my mother's perfume, my father's, my little bro's and mine. It was a mint fresh experience. It gave the start of the day its mark for me to remember it even now that I'm 32 years old. Looking back, this is what makes perfumes and fragrances special for me.
Needless to mention, all the times going on a date where I would spray myself until I could not smell anything else other than my perfume. Adding on all also, every time we would go to the mall with my friends, either to watch movies, eat, or just walk around.
It was there though, those mornings hopping into the family car, all four of us together (my little sis hadn't been born yet) that signifies the most to me about perfumes and fragrances. That is, the fragrances of my mother, father, and brother all together going on an adventure. The adventure of a day or the adventure of a night. They're embedded in my brain forever, and it might be all thanks to the peculiar scent of a fragrance.
