Smell is a primal, evocative sense. However, what makes one good is highly contextual, don’t you think?
For example, I love the rich, sweet smell of an old car. It’s a complex olfactory cocktail of vinyl, gasoline (particularly the smell of exhaust unencumbered by emissions controls), and such. I enjoy it because it reminds me of happy times as a child, attending auctions and car shows with my father. Know what, though? I’d find it disconcerting to walk in my house at the end of the day and smell that. It’d be wrong.
And I wouldn’t generally say a woman who smelled like Japanese food would be a good idea, either.
Behold Sushi—one of the latest exciting fragrance concepts from Demeter Fragrance Library. No worries; we’re assured by the page that it doesn’t smell like what you think. Rather:
“Sushi is the fresh scent of just cooked sticky rice and straight from the seaside seaweed, laced with hints of ginger and lemon essences.”
Well, that’s much better.
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