Comments on: Strange, but Not Invisible http://perfumeposse.com/2008/02/14/strange-but-not-invisible/ Tue, 22 May 2012 12:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: benvenuta http://perfumeposse.com/2008/02/14/strange-but-not-invisible/#comment-76457 benvenuta Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:29:51 +0000 http://perfumeposse.com/2008/02/14/strange-but-not-invisible/#comment-76457 *scratches head* I too dislike people who claim to have allergies and disoders they don`t have just to make their lives easier. I think they are doing very bad service to people who really suffer from allergies, fibromyalgia, migraines etc...and there are many. (I have read that in restaurants many people claim to have allergies to thing they just don`t like. Waiters and cooks hate it, of course. The Waiter at waiterrant.net has many such stories of such people who admitted they were lying in the end.) *scratches head*
I too dislike people who claim to have allergies and disoders they don`t have just to make their lives easier. I think they are doing very bad service to people who really suffer from allergies, fibromyalgia, migraines etc…and there are many. (I have read that in restaurants many people claim to have allergies to thing they just don`t like. Waiters and cooks hate it, of course. The Waiter at waiterrant.net has many such stories of such people who admitted they were lying in the end.)

]]> By: erin k. http://perfumeposse.com/2008/02/14/strange-but-not-invisible/#comment-76411 erin k. Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:32:45 +0000 http://perfumeposse.com/2008/02/14/strange-but-not-invisible/#comment-76411 molly, clearly you ARE talented and creative - you're writing! many influential people used to be known as a woman/man "of letters" - writers, artists, philosophers, etc. who developed their thoughts and expressed feelings through letters to their friends, lovers, and sometimes even enemies. that's pretty much what we're all doing now, using perfume as the touchstone. p.s. - i'm a visual artist myself, and i highly recommend printmaking for anyone interested in art and/or therapy. it's great, and you can try anything from more involved methods like woodcut (many use linoleum instead of wood) or silkscreen to simple at-home stamps made from styrofoam meat trays. it doesn't necessarily require a teacher or lots of materials, and something about the process is very satisfying and cathartic. it's a criminally overlooked art form! molly, clearly you ARE talented and creative – you’re writing! many influential people used to be known as a woman/man “of letters” – writers, artists, philosophers, etc. who developed their thoughts and expressed feelings through letters to their friends, lovers, and sometimes even enemies. that’s pretty much what we’re all doing now, using perfume as the touchstone.

p.s. – i’m a visual artist myself, and i highly recommend printmaking for anyone interested in art and/or therapy. it’s great, and you can try anything from more involved methods like woodcut (many use linoleum instead of wood) or silkscreen to simple at-home stamps made from styrofoam meat trays. it doesn’t necessarily require a teacher or lots of materials, and something about the process is very satisfying and cathartic. it’s a criminally overlooked art form!

]]> By: Molly http://perfumeposse.com/2008/02/14/strange-but-not-invisible/#comment-76378 Molly Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:49:05 +0000 http://perfumeposse.com/2008/02/14/strange-but-not-invisible/#comment-76378 Hi Catherine, I really like your outlook on art and life! I've been wanting (needing, really) to find a way somehow to artistically express my emotions...but I'm really not very talented at anything art or craft-wise. But I know that's not really the point! I'm trying to find someone/place in my area that offers art therapy. I think that would be really good for me. I need to just try *something* and just jump in without worrying if I'll "fail" or not. (this is a major problem for me--a fear of failure--and it holds me back in many areas of my life) You've really inspired me and made me think; thank you so much! PS: I've never tried Carnal Flower but I just know I'd love it! Tuberose is just heavenly... And anything by Ormonde Jayne is beautiful and can't help but lift your mood! I like all of them but especially Frangipani, Ormonde Woman, and Ormonde Man. Orris Noir is growing on me too... Molly :) Hi Catherine,
I really like your outlook on art and life! I’ve been wanting (needing, really) to find a way somehow to artistically express my emotions…but I’m really not very talented at anything art or craft-wise. But I know that’s not really the point! I’m trying to find someone/place in my area that offers art therapy. I think that would be really good for me. I need to just try *something* and just jump in without worrying if I’ll “fail” or not. (this is a major problem for me–a fear of failure–and it holds me back in many areas of my life)
You’ve really inspired me and made me think; thank you so much!
PS: I’ve never tried Carnal Flower but I just know I’d love it! Tuberose is just heavenly…
And anything by Ormonde Jayne is beautiful and can’t help but lift your mood! I like all of them but especially Frangipani, Ormonde Woman, and Ormonde Man. Orris Noir is growing on me too…
Molly :)

]]> By: Catherine http://perfumeposse.com/2008/02/14/strange-but-not-invisible/#comment-76376 Catherine Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:57:28 +0000 http://perfumeposse.com/2008/02/14/strange-but-not-invisible/#comment-76376 Hi, Molly, I will say... making art has been the best avenue to combat depression, engaging with the world via the camera, developing photographs, hand-making books. In such a state, it is important to recreate the world, to rebirth one's place in it. I truly find perfume an everyday opportunity for that rebirthing of self. And then it follows me wherever I go in the day. I am not surprised in your choices of cocoons (yes, I love that word)...they envelop like sparkling filaments. Mine have to be Mona di Orio's Nuit Noire, OJ Ta'if, and FM Carnal Flower. Vero's Rubj is starting to become another. I thought it was my least favorite of the three, and yet I reach and reach and reach for the sample. I am a flower-girl completely! I used to say, the body is a garden--cultivate it, prune it, water it. Hi, Molly,

I will say… making art has been the best avenue to combat depression, engaging with the world via the camera, developing photographs, hand-making books. In such a state, it is important to recreate the world, to rebirth one’s place in it. I truly find perfume an everyday opportunity for that rebirthing of self. And then it follows me wherever I go in the day.

I am not surprised in your choices of cocoons (yes, I love that word)…they envelop like sparkling filaments. Mine have to be Mona di Orio’s Nuit Noire, OJ Ta’if, and FM Carnal Flower. Vero’s Rubj is starting to become another. I thought it was my least favorite of the three, and yet I reach and reach and reach for the sample. I am a flower-girl completely! I used to say, the body is a garden–cultivate it, prune it, water it.

]]> By: Anne http://perfumeposse.com/2008/02/14/strange-but-not-invisible/#comment-76356 Anne Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:34:59 +0000 http://perfumeposse.com/2008/02/14/strange-but-not-invisible/#comment-76356 :d I think I might be guilty of that sin myself. In the name of 'testing', doesn't count as overspraying. :d I think I might be guilty of that sin myself. In the name of ‘testing’, doesn’t count as overspraying.

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