Posts Tagged ‘perfume’

Perfume Basics

Posted by on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009.
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Perfume Basics – a few simple tips for finding the right scent for you!

Perfume and the Game of Love

Posted by on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009.
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Perfume has been a major player in the game of Love and Sex for centuries. Perfume not only makes us happy, evokes memories, and expresses individuality, but it is also often marked by the presence of pheromones and their analogues. Pheromones are externally secreted triggered hormones that stimulate sexual appetite. Analogues to human pheromones like [...]

Perfumes Make Scents: Part Two – A Buyer’s Guide

Posted by on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009.
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The perfumes available at Qortezan have been carefully selected. Many are unique. All speak their own individual, wonderfully sensual language. Here are some of the outstanding perfumes you can try at our store: Ombre Rose (J-C Brosseau) – created by famous perfumer Françoise Caron, this is a light, highly fragrant, powdery rose-based perfume that evokes [...]

Perfumes Make Scents: Part One – A Brief History of Fragrance

Posted by on Monday, November 17th, 2008.
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Have you ever caught a whiff of someone as they breezed by you on the street and been instantly transported to another place? Scent is particularly effective at triggering emotional and psychological memories, as Proust so famously described in the opening chapter of In Search of Lost Time. Perfumes, above all, have powerful sensory associations [...]