Smells and colors

As I wrote last friday about colors ... asked me a visitor, how smell for me orange and red.

A difficult, but good question! Yes, the colors smell, but difficult to find words.

Conversely, I've often when smelling a particular scent, an association of color.

Now I tried to write down these perceptions.

Have confined myself to the main colors. Of course: red has many shades from vermilion to magenta... green ranging from lime green to olive and dark fir. And so on.

Many fragrances are also several color association.

I will limit myself to a few smells with only one (main) color.

White

Peonies, lily of the valey, jasmine, lilac and other sweet flowers

lychee, kokos(water)

Yellow

Tulips, freesias, any kinds of roses, autumn asters

vanilla, apples, cubeba-oil

Orange

Apricots, almonds, cinnamon, sandalwood, Peru balm, burning candles

Red

Fruitjam, strawberries, any summerdays

iron, forge, with the soldering iron make glowing silver,

odor in the circus tent, EdP "Fleur de Corail" by Lolita Lempicka

Green

Freshly mown grass, lettuce, raw sprouts, basil, geraniums

candied lemon peel, cut stem of hippeastrum, petitgrain-oil

Turquoise

Cold winter air over snow fields, fishes,

EDT "Kazmir mist" by Donna Karan

Blue

Blue is difficult and in fact there is hardly to find any scent that I associate with blue.

30 years ago there was even a perfume, which I was wearing only blue clothes, because it smelled "blue" for me. But I forgot the name, it was any creation of Yves Rocher.

Blue is more of a sound than a fragrance.

And some voices. For example, this

Purple

Hyazinth, buddlea, lavender, bergamot, ylang-ylang

EdT "Jette" by Jette Joop

Pink

Mango, cloves (dianthus)

EdT "Le Jardin d'amour" by Max Factor

Brown

Mushrooms, wet tree bark, alder forest, star anise, kakao (of course!)

Grey

Laundry,drying on the clothesline, sage, cedar wood, musk

the first summer rain on dusty roads since long time,

an empty ballet studio

Black

Church incense, cloves for cooking, juniper wood, vetiver

I hope I haven't bored you with my little excursion into the world of the senses.

It is only just my personal perception and can be very different for each person.

Maybe it's exciting to watch yourself once more conscious of smell and color?

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