Re: the smell of henna
Posted by Zimra on August 10, 1999 at 07:20:30:
In Reply to: Re: the smell of henna posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on August 10, 1999 at 02:19:13:
: Remember how you bought a perfume that smelled sooo wonderful on
: your friend, and on you it smelled like deep fried sauerkraut
balls?
: (No, not you, personally, but you know what I mean...) It's that
: complex sort of thing. There have only been three perfumes I ever
: thought smelled nice on me, and one is a men's aftershave......
: Scents are very strange things....and the only masters of perfumes
: that I know of are the French and the Arabs. (That should suggest
: something to you right there....)
As for stinky henna, I love curry-henna smells(adding fenugreek, Zimra, almost off to pennsic
amazing scent-wizard. He asks all sorts of odd questions about you
before he formulates a blend (ancestry, natural hair color, and other
things) and the results are wondrous... I think it goes way beyond
art. :-) He makes one perfume that many of my friends and I wear, and
it smells different on every single one of us (it's just frankincense
and myrrh). Sometimes I ask what the perfume is without thinking,
when I smell it on a friend, and the answer is "duh! yours!" And even
with something this simple, it makes a huge difference if he or one
of his apprentices mixes it. It's just magic (or advanced science,
indistinguishable from it :-)
cardamom, cloves, etc. to the tea/lime/coffee water (I call it "henna
soup" :-) Plain old henna (on the skin) doesn't smell so great to me.
Eucalyptus oil in henna (paste or on skin) is the ickiest for me...
well, ok, it's a toss up between that, and sweaty/plastic-wrapped
henna that has way too much new skin sprayed on it.... eeewwwww!