Welcome To Smell This!
Let me start by introducing myself. Call me the Candle Queen BUT I'm not just interested in scented candles. I love ALL scented products. I was blessed with a super sniffer, and I can pick up even the most subtle of scents. It's a blessing, yes... but it can also be a curse. Imagine, if you will, you can smell everything around you better than most people. It's great for stuff that smells GOOD, right? Unfortunately, not everything smells good.
For Example: I can smell someone's stinky foot odor when they take their shoes off DOWNSTAIRS, and I'm upstairs. They think they're are getting away with it, casually leaving those stinky sneakers at the door, but I can smell both the stink wafting from their shoes AND the smell of their stinky socks carrying offensive odors upstairs to me. I wrinkle my nose, as they take a seat across the room from me. Should I say something, or Is this the same type of scenario, when people don't tell you that you have food caught in your teeth? We live in a world where we avoid offending people at all costs, lest we look like anti-social, bitchy cave people with no social skills to speak of.
I've always been into scented products. Because of my ADD, I never stick with any fragrance to long, except my secret perfume oil I have been wearing for over a decade. No, I won't tell you my secret, but I do have my favorites. These scents are comforting, familiar, sexy, warm, exciting... triggered by experiences and memories. I have a love of incense, especially Nag Champa. In the Naughties, that's what my home smelled like in the cold Vermont winters. It is a scent that travels with me, to every apartment I have ever owned.
My Ex Husband wore Polo by Ralph Lauren. The one in the green bottle. I remember getting it for him every Christmas. It's a scent that fills me with a plethora of emotions. It's also a scent that's too painful for me to revisit, though I appreciate the occasional encounter. When your brain attaches memory to a scent that is especially emotional, it kick starts your fight or flight response. Your brain perceives this particular scent as a potential threat, making you acutely aware of anyone wearing it. I almost can't handle it, but, after many years of healing, I can probably hold it together and not run off or leave the room now. Scent is a powerful thing.
Besides PTSD from an abusive relationship, I have something called, "Emotional Intensity Disorder", which basically means I FEEL emotions very strongly. Too strongly. I'm hypersensitive, not just about myself, but about the world around me. This all brings me back to hypersensitivity about OTHER things, scent being one of them. I'm an empathetic person, yes, but I will tell someone if they're kinda stinky. I'd want someone to tell me if I stunk. Please do me that favor! I know there are other people out there with even more sensitive noses than mine, and the last thing I want to do is smell bad.
Where am I going with all this? Well.... I just want to let you in as to WHY this blog is important to me. Scent is personal, magical, painful, offensive, beautiful, enticing, heartbreaking... and so much more. A certain scent can bring you back to childhood, high school, college, your first love, your wedding, any any other life-changing events you may have had. I want to share my love of all things scented. I want to give the best, un-biased, informative, thought provoking, and hopefully, INTERESTING reviews. There will be posts about candles, perfumes, body washes, plug-ins, lotions, air fresheners, and many, many more scented products to come! I hope I can help you make the best scent choices. I don't know how many people will actually read my blog, but I hope to connect with you. Let me earn your trust and I will not steer you wrong! If you have a product you want me to try or smell, please let me know, and I will do my best to review it. Whatever I can get my hands on, I will post about!
You are about to embark on a wonderful journey of the olfactory kind. Grab a cup of coffee, pull up a a seat, and get ready to
SMELL THIS!
For Example: I can smell someone's stinky foot odor when they take their shoes off DOWNSTAIRS, and I'm upstairs. They think they're are getting away with it, casually leaving those stinky sneakers at the door, but I can smell both the stink wafting from their shoes AND the smell of their stinky socks carrying offensive odors upstairs to me. I wrinkle my nose, as they take a seat across the room from me. Should I say something, or Is this the same type of scenario, when people don't tell you that you have food caught in your teeth? We live in a world where we avoid offending people at all costs, lest we look like anti-social, bitchy cave people with no social skills to speak of.
I've always been into scented products. Because of my ADD, I never stick with any fragrance to long, except my secret perfume oil I have been wearing for over a decade. No, I won't tell you my secret, but I do have my favorites. These scents are comforting, familiar, sexy, warm, exciting... triggered by experiences and memories. I have a love of incense, especially Nag Champa. In the Naughties, that's what my home smelled like in the cold Vermont winters. It is a scent that travels with me, to every apartment I have ever owned.
My Ex Husband wore Polo by Ralph Lauren. The one in the green bottle. I remember getting it for him every Christmas. It's a scent that fills me with a plethora of emotions. It's also a scent that's too painful for me to revisit, though I appreciate the occasional encounter. When your brain attaches memory to a scent that is especially emotional, it kick starts your fight or flight response. Your brain perceives this particular scent as a potential threat, making you acutely aware of anyone wearing it. I almost can't handle it, but, after many years of healing, I can probably hold it together and not run off or leave the room now. Scent is a powerful thing.
Besides PTSD from an abusive relationship, I have something called, "Emotional Intensity Disorder", which basically means I FEEL emotions very strongly. Too strongly. I'm hypersensitive, not just about myself, but about the world around me. This all brings me back to hypersensitivity about OTHER things, scent being one of them. I'm an empathetic person, yes, but I will tell someone if they're kinda stinky. I'd want someone to tell me if I stunk. Please do me that favor! I know there are other people out there with even more sensitive noses than mine, and the last thing I want to do is smell bad.
Where am I going with all this? Well.... I just want to let you in as to WHY this blog is important to me. Scent is personal, magical, painful, offensive, beautiful, enticing, heartbreaking... and so much more. A certain scent can bring you back to childhood, high school, college, your first love, your wedding, any any other life-changing events you may have had. I want to share my love of all things scented. I want to give the best, un-biased, informative, thought provoking, and hopefully, INTERESTING reviews. There will be posts about candles, perfumes, body washes, plug-ins, lotions, air fresheners, and many, many more scented products to come! I hope I can help you make the best scent choices. I don't know how many people will actually read my blog, but I hope to connect with you. Let me earn your trust and I will not steer you wrong! If you have a product you want me to try or smell, please let me know, and I will do my best to review it. Whatever I can get my hands on, I will post about!
You are about to embark on a wonderful journey of the olfactory kind. Grab a cup of coffee, pull up a a seat, and get ready to
SMELL THIS!
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