In The Beginning

This is a little about me and the reasons why I started this blog:

My love affair with perfume started when I was a child. I would always beg the SAs of the stores my mother visited for samples, which I collected with a passion. On one of those trips, when I was around eight years old, I finally asked my mother for my very own full bottle. She could not comprehend what a child would do with one, yet she eventually agreed. I picked Anais Anais by Cacharel. My sample collection kept growing and it even graduated to a collection of miniatures which I love to this day. Again as a child, there was a time when I could always name the perfume of anyone that came near me, I guess that was in the 80s, when there were only about 800 perfumes in the world, instead of thousands of new releases per year... When thinking of what I wanted to do when I grew up, all I wanted was to create perfumes. Disappointment hit me though as I became more and more convinced that this would be an impossible path for me. Because of this I found different interests and chose a different path..but my passion for perfume never waned. I am not an expert and there are so many other blogs out there that do a most excellent job. But I really wanted my own little space to share my love for fragrances and my thoughts with other perfume-lovers. Olfaction is of utmost importance to me.. I consider it my strongest sense. A scent can bring to the surface memories not just as pictures, but as complete emotions, that cradle the heart and lift it with joy, or drown it in sorrow. They can evoke the light touch of a lover past, or the caress of the summer sun. Everything and anything can be contained in smells. For me, the stimulus does not even need be there. It is enough to imagine a smell I have experienced to actually smell it once again as if it was truly there.