Caron Parfum Sacre image @Nicoleta
I typically come throughout sure associations of notes that make me suppose I “undergo” (I don’t undergo, I take pleasure in each second) from an acute type of musical-olfactive-synesthesia. (“Synesthesia is a neurological situation by which stimulation of 1 sensory or cognitive pathway (for instance, listening to) results in automated, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway (reminiscent of imaginative and prescient). Merely put, when one sense is activated, one other unrelated sense is activated on the similar time.”wikipedia)
The bouba – kiki experiment
Look the 2 shapes within the picture above and picture they have been actual objects from every day life. For those who have been to provide them a reputation, which one could be “bouba” and which one “kiki”? Proper! “The spherical one would clearly be bouba” you’ll say, with out blinking. Why? And why is the reply the identical for (virtually) all of us? When the mouth makes a spherical form when announcing bouba, the mind registers that form and it instantly associates it with the visible that’s extra rounded. One the opposite hand “kiki” is made with sharper consonant sounds, very like the angular picture A. The kiki-bouba impact goes to indicate that our mind subconsciously associates the linguistics of every phrase with the picture that’s related.
Caron Parfum Sacre image @Nicoleta authentic components and flacon circa 1990
As probably the most primary ideas of the philosophy of notion are primarily based on visuals, how completely different could be the world by which the paradigm would shift in the direction of olfaction? Think about a kiki-bouba sort of experiment utilized to probably the most subjective of senses – olfaction. Wouldn’t it even make sense? Open the cap of the fragrance, breathe in, and shut your eyes. What photos roll earlier than your eyes, what music do you hear, what style fills your mouth?
The Go to of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, portray by Edward Poynter
I hear in Caron Parfum Sacre the bombastic starting: a glistening Arabian pure breed shakes its hooves, elevating up within the air tiny particles of the desert sand, that may be felt, tasted even, scratching between your enamel and the tip of your tongue, nostrils sharpening on the feral scent steaming up after the lengthy gallop. Smells of sand raised within the solar, heat dunes, the spice market with fruit baskets spilled over the piles of cardamom and pepper. The mud is slowly settling, and in chiaroscuro, we see an ideal rose, with petals as stunning and complex as a baroque lace, rigorously rendered by the olfactive painter, obsessive about details- every nervure of the leaf, every prickly thorn, in absurd detailed macro magnificence.
Caron Parfum Sacre image @Nicoleta
From the background, the darkness embodied within the sticky myrrh pulls within the rose, and slowly drowns it in its thick molasses. All this wrestle between the sensuality of the rose and the sacredness of the bottom notes: eros, agape, eros, agape is sheer delight.
If I used to be to assign to it the proper music, it could be Monteverdi’s Lamento della Ninfa
Parfum Sacre was launched by the home of Caron in 1990 and the nostril was Jean-Pierre Béthouart.
High Notes: Lemon, Black pepper, Mace, Cardamom;Coronary heart Notes: Orange blossom, Rose, Jasmine, Ylang ylang, Orris, Carnation, Cinnamon; Base notes: Vanilla, Myrrh, Civet, Cedarwood, Rosewood, Amber, Musk
Nicoleta Tomsa, senior contributor
Disclosure: My very own bottle, opinions are my very own
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