Fu-Fu Fever – Fragrance Figures into Many Products

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by Turner Thompson

Fragrances are all around. If you take the time to examine the environment around you, you may well notice that they are, in fact, a part of most everything you do. The world has gone fragrance mad, and there is no sign of slowing down. Where are fragrances showing up now? It is hard to know exactly where to begin, but consider some of the more popular places that we don't always acknowledge.

Consider cars. We have become so obsessed with fragrances and aromatherapy, that a vehicle seems almost incomplete without some sort of scent to it. It might be scented oil drizzled into the rugs of the car to make it smell new, like strawberry, or with a hint of vanilla after an oil change. It may also be a scented piece hung from the rear view mirror in the front seat. There is such an obsession with fragrance now that it is not enough to simply rid the car of bad odors, but it must also get its own new fragrance to replace that odor. Combine that with the bath soaps and perfume scents you bring each time you get into your car and it becomes a chamber of scents, odors, and fragrances; it is a fragrance cocktail.

Bath products are another. There was a time, believe it or not, when soap really just smelled like soap. Not only are soaps scented now with fragrances and perfumes, but even the type of soap you use will determine the scent. There are bath oils, body lotions, and bar soaps just to get you started. Each has its own set of fragrances and perfumes included in it. If that is not enough, there is your shampoo which may be one fragrance while your conditioner is another. Once you have cleaned your body with a scented soap or body wash and washed your hair with a scented shampoo and conditioner, you can still wash your face with a face wash that has its own fragrance. The hard part is not finding fragrances in bath products, but in trying to make sure they all compliment each other sufficiently.

Historical Quote

It is never the thing but the version of the thing:
The fragrance of the woman not her self,
Her self in her manner not the solid block,
The day in its color not perpending time,
Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord,
The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.

—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

To find the next fragrance product, you will have to go no further than the bath mat as you step out of your perfumed shower experience. Lotions have become an absolute hub of fragrance. The idea of lotions and fragrance, in fact, has become so big that they are now often used instead of actual perfume or cologne. Lotions can be purchased with pretty much any scent that is available for aromatherapy now; you need only walk down the aisle containing lotion at your local convenience store to see just how many there are.

Then there are candles. It may seem obvious that candles would be fragrance induced, but they have become so to such a degree that it is difficult to even know how many there are. You may buy them yourself or get them as gifts, but the problem comes in making sure you only burn candles that compliment each other. Like with any time you use a scent, it is really just important that you pay attention to what it is that each fragrance induces as far as a reaction. Work with themes and don't just start lighting candles of varying scents without paying attention to what goes together.

Fragrance is everywhere. By the time you get up in the morning and take your shower with scented soap, wash your hair with scented shampoo and treat it wish scented conditioner, and treat your skin with a fragranced lotion you are already well on your way to fragrance saturation. However, then you might crawl into your car for work where there is vanilla, pine, or new car fragrance either sprayed or being wafted through the car via a hanging decorative fragrance emitter of some sort. That doesn't even take into account the candles that are likely all over your home that you have purchased and gotten as gifts, each with its own fragrance to add to the cocktail of fragrance in your and everyone else's lives. Since we know fragrance is everywhere, it is important to at least make sure they all compliment one another. Take a few extra moments in your day to ensure that what you wear, what you clean with, and what you burn all have some relation in terms of theme or compliment and you will be in control of this fragrance rich society in which we live.

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