This picture was taking in Bath and Body Works at the Grove City Outlets. There is a lot going on in the picture, but I chose it because the day this was taken was a great day for me. The picture makes me feel happy, because the day was beautiful, fun, and full of funny things. My mother took us to the Outlets for school shopping. I enjoyed that because I like school shopping, even though I do not like the beginning of school. Bath and Body Works is my favorite store at the outlets because I love all the smells and colors.
The smells and colors are made by people with a very prestigious job. They are called perfumers, and they use chemistry to make perfume, lotion, shampoo, and body wash. There are two types of perfuming: Fine fragrance toiletries, and functional (Sullivan 72). Fine fragrance is lotions and perfumes, while functional is air fresheners, soaps, and shampoos. Perfumers create a fragrance formula made up of about 40-100 ingredients from natural and manufactured ingredients (Sullivan 73). My favorite smell is the Fresh Picked Strawberries. Bath and Body Works makes hand soap and hand sanitizer in that scent. There are over 1,000 to 2,000 different scents that can be used in a fragrance, but they may be used at different doses (Sullivan 74). The perfumers then have to use those scents to make lotions and perfumes. The ingredients are added to alcohol to make liquid perfumes, and a fatty base to make lotions and other cosmetics (Columbia University Press n.pag).
In this picture there is a lot going on. In the far most left corner of the page, there is a lady trying to get her hands on a bottle of a tropical scented lotion that just so happens to be buy three get one free. You can tell that it is tropical scented becaus...
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...oose the right kind of perfume, then it will compliment your style. Just like if you choose the right kind of friend, then that friend will compliment your traits and make you a better person. Over the years I have learned this lesson. I know all too well that the wrong kind of friends will bring you down, and make your self-esteem go down the toilet. They will use you to make them feel better about themselves, and they treat you like you are garbage. Truthfully they aren’t your friends, and the wrong kind of perfume isn’t your friend because it could make you feel like garbage.
Although, this picture was taken for absolutely no reason; I have really taken a lot from this picture. The day was great when it was taken, but I have learned more writing this than I thought I would have. I have learned about the importance of smelling nice, and picking a scent to fit you.
Most pheromone based perfumes marketed on the internet elicit their effect by affecting one or more gland in the body.
The Hawaiian sun beats down on my skin, warming and basking my arms in its radiance. I took a deep breath and detected a sweet, flowery perfume wafting out of a small booth which was completely covered in different beaming colored garlands of all sorts. There were yellow ones, and pink ones, and red ones, and just about every color in the rainbow. I rushed over to the stall and selected a pink, white, and yellow garland that smelled so
The photo is my bedroom. A fragrance is on the small desk next to the bed. Several perfumes on the table and a box of perfumes and scent boy washes are under the bed. It shows that I love scent very much. The turquoise laundry basket, bed sheet and comforter make
Immigrants arriving in America for their first time are initially devastated at their new lives and realize their “golden lives” were simply fantasies and dreams of an ideal life in America. Immigrants from foreign countries, including those mentioned in Uchida’s Picture Bride, faced countless problems and hardships, including a sense of disillusionment and disappointment. Furthermore, immigrants and picture brides faced racial discrimination not only from white men, but the United States government, as well. Immigrants were plagued with economic hardships lived in deplorable living conditions. Though nearly every immigrant and picture bride who came to America fantasized about an ideal life, they were faced with countless hardships and challenges before becoming accepted American citizens.
We all know that cosmetics existed thousands of years ago. Cleopatra used a heavy arsenal of beauty aids to help her shake the foundations of the Roman Empire. Yes, cosmetics and perfumes have a long history, but the consumer industry we live in is relatively recent, a creation of the decades 1890 through 1920. The products hawked in the 19th Century by druggists, perfumers, barbers, physicians, and a colorful assortment of other enterprising individuals were primitive by our standards. Certainly, active ingredients were used with abandon, notably arsenic, lead, and mercury. These were products that really made visible differences, and the consumer was well-advised to be wary of the majority of these mysterious concoctions.
In Lynda Barry’s Common Scents, she considers scents a demon for many reasons. One reason being that everyone has his or her own scent preference and scent in general, yet we also judge the way that other people smell. When the woman whose house smelled like a fresh bus bathroom talking about the smells of different Asian people’s houses, Lynda notes that she was “free with her observations about the smells of others” (18). She sprays her house with disinfectant sprays and air fresheners, which to her smells better that whatever her house smelt like before, but to others, such as Lynda’s grandmother, these smells are too strong and are trying to hide the fact that not everything smells good all the time.
The company additionally makes the smells of bath soaps, deodorants, and floor wax. Schlosser reports, “The basic science behind the scent of shaving cream is the same as the that governing the flavor of you TV dinner, in that the aroma of food can be responsible for as much as 90% of its flavor,” (Schlosser 122). Schlosser reveals that in the mid-nineteenth century the processed food industry began expanding increasing the need for flavor additives. (Schlosser 123). The demand for color additives began to grow as well when it was learned that appearance can
A picture is more than just a piece of time captured within a light-sensitive emulsion, it is an experience one has whose story is told through an enchanting image. I photograph the world in the ways I see it. Every curious angle, vibrant color, and abnormal subject makes me think, and want to spark someone else’s thought process. The photographs in this work were not chosen by me, but by the reactions each image received when looked at. If a photo was merely glanced at or given a casual compliment, then I didn’t feel it was strong enough a work, but if one was to stop somebody, and be studied in curiosity, or question, then the picture was right to be chosen.
The novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Süskind takes place in the densely populated and repugnant slums of 18th century Paris where protagonist Jean-Baptiste Grenouille resides as a lowly peasant with an incomparable sense of smell that sets him apart from the rest of the world. However, Grenouille is unaffected, and endures the hardships of brutal peasant life with an iron will, in the hopes of discovering every scent the world had to offer as his only motivation for living. He craves to be alone to further enhance his knowledge in capturing scent; Grenouille becomes so estranged and enthralled in the art of capturing fragrances that he sets out on a quest to concoct the “ultimate perfume” which leads him to commit a series of murders to capture human scent. Süskind, by way of Jean Baptiste’s obscure life and fine nose allows readers to explore the concept of alienation and the effects it has on the character development of Jean Baptiste Grenouille.
From laundry detergent to perfume, room sprays to breath mints, everything now has a chemically produced scent to disguise the natural; modern culture has declared the embarrassment linked with body odor. On a night out or at a first date, men and women are both spritzing cologne and perfume and popping in chewing gum in an effort to smell pleasant and non-verbally communicate a message to the other. They are attempting to present themselves in a way they believe will appeal to the other and enhance the relationship. However, this very act proves that odors have the capability to affect our mood, perception, and
It’s the most iconic perfume that changed the world of fragrance. Chanel wanted to create a scent that was modern, classy and represented women. “Perfumer Ernest Beaux produced a portfolio of samples for Mademoiselle to try- and she chose the fifth proposal” (“Chanel”, n.d). It was composed of eight different ingredients making her perfume more complex than any in the market. She was the first designer to put her name on a fragrance and replaced the typical perfume packaging for a more sleek, simple look. This was an extraordinary scent and it is still around
When going for a walk, a person takes in the beauty around them. On this particular day, the refulgent sun is extra bright, making the sky a perfect blue. White, puffy clouds fill the sky, slowing moving at their own pace. The wind is peacefully calm, making the trees stand tall and proud. There is no humidity in the air. As this person walks down the road, they see a deer with her two fawns. The moment is absolutely beautiful. Moments like this happen only once in a great while, making us wanting to stay in the particular moment forever. Unfortunately, time moves on, but only if there were some way to capture the day’s magnificence. Thanks to Joseph Niépce, we can now capture these moments and others that take our breath away. The invention of the camera and its many makeovers has changed the art of photography.
It’s no secret that fragrance matters to us. It is a huge part of how we experience the products we use and the world at large. For this reason, it’s a deal breaker when it comes to our beauty and personal care products, especially if it’s a product that you leave on the hair and skin or a fragrance that lingers. Many of us have given up products that worked well because we could not stand the smell or because our significant other complained. The fact that fragrance affects not just us but those around us is something we often tend to overlook. Fashion icon Sarah Jessica Parker of Sex and the City once said this about fragrance "It 's immediately communicating more than your clothes, which we think tell our story, right? But clothes don 't invade anybody else 's space.” That’s so true. You can look away if a coworker is wearing something you don’t like, but you can’t hold your breath all day, now can you? Fragrance can even linger in a space long after the wearer has gone or linger on your close, long after you hugged your best friend. Fragrance has such a
To achieve that we became creative with everything from the product itself to choosing distinctive designs for all our perfume bottles that preserves our Arabian culture and heritage.
Stopping and taking a moment to close my eyes and breath in the fresh clean spring like air then slowly opening them to the wonder of the view around me I feel I’m making the most of life.