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Re: the smell of henna
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Posted by Zimra on August 10, 1999 at 07:20:30:
In Reply to: Re: the smell of henna posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on August 10, 1999 at 02:19:13:
: Remember how you bought a perfume that smelled sooo wonderful on : your friend, and on you it smelled like deep fried sauerkraut balls? : (No, not you, personally, but you know what I mean...) It's that : complex sort of thing. There have only been three perfumes I ever : thought smelled nice on me, and one is a men's aftershave...... : Scents are very strange things....and the only masters of perfumes : that I know of are the French and the Arabs. (That should suggest : something to you right there....) There is a perfumer who comes to Pennsic, and he is an amazing scent-wizard. He asks all sorts of odd questions about you before he formulates a blend (ancestry, natural hair color, and other things) and the results are wondrous... I think it goes way beyond art. :-) He makes one perfume that many of my friends and I wear, and it smells different on every single one of us (it's just frankincense and myrrh). Sometimes I ask what the perfume is without thinking, when I smell it on a friend, and the answer is "duh! yours!" And even with something this simple, it makes a huge difference if he or one of his apprentices mixes it. It's just magic (or advanced science, indistinguishable from it :-) As for stinky henna, I love curry-henna smells(adding fenugreek, cardamom, cloves, etc. to the tea/lime/coffee water (I call it "henna soup" :-) Plain old henna (on the skin) doesn't smell so great to me. Eucalyptus oil in henna (paste or on skin) is the ickiest for me... well, ok, it's a toss up between that, and sweaty/plastic-wrapped henna that has way too much new skin sprayed on it.... eeewwwww! Zimra, almost off to pennsic
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