+shopthebookworm Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 Why of course it is National Fragrance Day! Smell something sweet today like a SWEET deal at The Book Worm! Health and Beauty sections are on sale today with a whopping 25% off! Open from 10 to 6pm, the owner is happy to see smiling faces or even grumpy ones for that matter (though I will try to make you smile!) March 21 is always National Fragrance Day. November is National Fragrance Month. Are there any other related holidays? Yes! Fragrance Week is the 1st week in June What is this Holiday for? This day is about cologne, perfume and all the things that are good-smelling. That even includes potpourri, soaps, lotions and even scented candles. Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, objects, and living spaces a pleasant smell. Women love to wear perfume and men love to smell it on women. Women love to smell cologne on a man as well. Fragrance Popularity Fragrance is not only popular as a cologne or perfume. It's also popular in: Aromatherapy: Aromatherapy is a form of alternative medicine that uses volatile liquid plant materials, known as essential oils (EOs), and other aromatic compounds from plants for the purpose of affecting a person's mood or health. Potpourri: Dry potpourri is an assortment of dried herbs and dried flowers that are placed in pretty dishes located somewhere in your home. Many times the dried assortment is infused with essential oils as well. _____________________________________________________ Fragrance Categories The traditional classification which emerged around 1900 comprised the following categories: Single Floral: Fragrances that are dominated by a scent from one particular flower; in French called a soliflore. (e.g. Serge Lutens' Sa Majeste La Rose, which is dominated by rose.) Floral Bouquet: Containing the combination of several flowers in a scent. Ambery: A large fragrance class featuring the scents of vanilla and animal scents together with flowers and woods. Can be enhanced by camphorous oils and incense resins, which bring to mind Victorian era imagery of the Middle East and Far East. Woody: Fragrances that are dominated by woody scents, typically of sandalwood and cedar. Patchouli, with its camphoraceous smell, is commonly found in these perfumes. Leather: A family of fragrances which features the scents of honey, tobacco, wood and wood tars in its middle or base notes and a scent that alludes to leather. Chypre: Meaning Cyprus in French, this includes fragrances built on a similar accord consisting of bergamot, oakmoss, patchouli, and labdanum. This family of fragrances is named after a perfume by François Coty. A notable example is Mitsouko (meaning mystery in Japanese) by Guerlain. Fougère: Meaning Fern in French, built on a base of lavender, coumarin and oakmoss. Houbigant's Fougère Royale pioneered the use of this base. Many men's fragrances belong to this family of fragrances, which is characterized by its sharp herbaceous and woody scent. Since 1945, due to great advances in the technology of perfume creation (i.e., compound design and synthesis) as well as the natural development of styles and tastes; new categories have emerged to describe modern scents: Bright Floral: combining the traditional Single Floral & Floral Bouquet categories. Green: a lighter and more modern interpretation of the Chypre type. Oceanic/Ozone: the newest category in perfume history, appearing in 1991 with Christian Dior's Dune. A very clean, modern smell leading to many of the modern androgynous perfumes. Citrus or Fruity: An old fragrance family that until recently consisted mainly of "freshening" eau de colognes due to the low tenacity of citrus scents. Development of newer fragrance compounds has allowed for the creation of primarily citrus fragrances. Gourmand: scents with "edible" or "dessert"-like qualities. These often contain notes like vanilla and tonka bean, as well as synthetic components designed to resemble food flavors. An example is Thierry Mugler's Angel. __________________________________________________ Plant sources Plants have long been used in perfumery as a source of essential oils and aroma compounds. These aromatics are usually secondary metabolites produced by plants as protection against herbivores, infections, as well as to attract pollinators. Plants are by far the largest source of fragrant compounds used in perfumery. The sources of these compounds may be derived from various parts of a plant. A plant can offer more than one source of aromatics, for instance the aerial portions and seeds of coriander have remarkably different odors from each other. Orange leaves, blossoms, and fruit zest are the respective sources of petit grain, neroli, and orange oils. Bark: Commonly used barks includes cinnamon and cascarilla. The fragrant oil in sassafras root bark is also used either directly or purified for its main constituent, safrole, which is used in the synthesis of other fragrant compounds such as helional. Flowers and blossoms: Undoubtedly the largest source of aromatics. Includes the flowers of several species of rose and jasmine, as well as osmanthus, mimosa, tuberose, as well as the blossoms of citrus and ylang-ylang trees. Although not traditionally thought of as a flower, the unopened flower buds of the clove are also commonly used. Orchid flowers are not commercially used to produce essential oils or absolutes, except in the case of vanilla, an orchid, which must be pollinated first and made into seed pods before use in perfumery. Fruits: Fresh fruits such as apples, strawberries, cherries unfortunately do not yield the expected odors when extracted; if such fragrance notes are found in a perfume, they are synthetic. Notable exceptions include litsea cubeba, vanilla, and juniper berry. The most commonly used fruits yield their aromatics from the rind; they include citrus such as oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruit. Leaves and twigs: Commonly used for perfumery are lavender leaf, patchouli, sage, violets, rosemary, and citrus leaves. Sometimes leaves are valued for the "green" smell they bring to perfumes, examples of this include hay and tomato leaf. Resins: Valued since antiquity, resins have been widely used in incense and perfumery. Highly fragrant and antiseptic resins and resin-containing perfumes have been used by many cultures as medicines for a large variety of ailments. Commonly used resins in perfumery include labdanum, frankincense/olibanum, myrrh, Peru balsam, gum benzoin. Pine and fir resins are a particularly valued source of terpenes used in the organic synthesis of many other synthetic or naturally occurring aromatic compounds. Some of what is called amber and copal in perfumery today is the resinous secretion of fossil conifers. Roots, rhizomes and bulbs: Commonly used terrestrial portions in perfumery include iris rhizomes, vetiver roots, various rhizomes of the ginger family. Seeds: Commonly used seeds include tonka bean, coriander, caraway, cocoa, nutmeg, mace, cardamom, and anise. Woods: Highly important in providing the base notes to a perfume, wood oils and distillates are indispensable in perfumery. Commonly used woods include sandalwood, rosewood, agarwood, birch, cedar, juniper, and pine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragrance __________________________________________________ How can I Celebrate Fragrance Day? Take a field trip! - Get outside and get to smelling! Take a notebook with you and see how many different smells you and your family can come up with. This is a lot of fun and a great learning experience too. Blog with us about it! - We have a blog called "Everyday is a Holiday" so visit our pages and tell us about your favorite lighthouse. Send Free E-Greeting! Follow your nose... Fragrance is associated with the good things in life, flowers, food... So fill your sweetheart's or friend's day with sweet and fragrant wishes with our romantic and floral e-cards. Link to post Share on other sites
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The AmBASSaDEER Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 hey do yall have "silent warrior" or "marshalling the faithful" by charles henderson? Link to post Share on other sites
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+shopthebookworm Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 hey do yall have "silent warrior" or "marshalling the faithful" by charles henderson? i don't have any of his titles but can get them. PM me or call the store and we can get them for you from one of our bookstores we work with. Susan Damn you Bookworm and your clever titles!!!!! Damn you Bookworm and your clever titles!!!!! And you probably thought you just were passing gas Link to post Share on other sites
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