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perfume as texture : a tale of mostly chypres

May 16, 2014 by Lavanya

It has been a really long while since I posted. I had sort of promised myself that I wouldn’t post or comment about perfume until I finished a certain piece of work that needed to be finished more than a year ago. I’m still not close to being done with that, but I found this post of mine in the drafts. It was written a while ago (so it doesn’t count as breaking my promise, does it?). But first I […]

Categories: Art, Memories, Perfume Notes, Scent, Science, writing • Tags: crossmodal, perfume, sensory

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Describing Smells

July 17, 2011 by Lavanya

While describing smells, I find that I almost always rely on descripters from several other senses, more so than when I am describing something I see. For example, I see a beautiful sunset, and I think orange flames, marshmallow clouds. Or  egg-yolk dripping down the sky. But when I smell a perfume, for example, I think it smells yellow, or purple. Low-pitched like violets, or higher toned like spicy roses. I might even think that it reminds me of the […]

Categories: Scent, writing • Tags: descriptions, olfactory, sensory, smell

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The texture of a mountain. And some fruit

September 1, 2009 by Lavanya

The picture on the blog, below the words ‘And a small sensory window’, lives in the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and is actually called ‘Angel’s Window’. The picture nudging the words on this post, is what lies beyond the ‘Angel’s Window’. After a short walk, the teasing glimpse through the ‘window’, expands into an unreal view. And by unreal, I don’t just mean beautiful. The view was literally unreal. Like a scene frozen and stolen from an animation […]

Categories: Food/Drink, Travel • Tags: Food, grand canyon, sensory, Travel

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