tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1151761157097023332024-02-18T23:51:43.339-08:00Lurana: Enticer of the Light * writer, artist * Lura AstorSenses*Nasal Translator* Olfactory CultureLura Astorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536795462551023352noreply@blogger.comBlogger415125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115176115709702333.post-46291146576562951922020-02-14T11:36:00.000-08:002020-02-14T11:29:23.667-08:00Lurana on Pinterest - smell, fun, fragrance, bottles and more<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you are on Pinterest click <b><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/luraastor/perfume-scent-odor-fragrance/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span> </a></span></b>for my olfaction images #fragrance #fun #perfume #scent #packaging #installations #bottles #humor<div class="blogger-post-footer">copyright: Lura Astor/Lurana/lastor/lurana.com</div>Lura Astorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536795462551023352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115176115709702333.post-4033737486616236902020-02-14T01:00:00.000-08:002020-02-14T11:30:15.833-08:00Aphrodisiac Business<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZiukzB26O-IQ9ijOIOUEdsY02Y0NxpQendPPcTX6EPpq-f7t0cSzuo3-p8Hk8g2Paan98-OjvAY0Q8F09WPmvXpOTQRnjxQ0O8ujtyLS-S8xALEnjymhNwALbvsU9ZIlj7vlDDmgBPk4/s1600/another+kiss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZiukzB26O-IQ9ijOIOUEdsY02Y0NxpQendPPcTX6EPpq-f7t0cSzuo3-p8Hk8g2Paan98-OjvAY0Q8F09WPmvXpOTQRnjxQ0O8ujtyLS-S8xALEnjymhNwALbvsU9ZIlj7vlDDmgBPk4/s320/another+kiss.jpg" width="235" /></a><br />
“All our successful perfumes,” said Parid perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain, “have two notes – vanilla and an animal scent. In short, they are aphrodisiacs.”<br />
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The chairman of International Flavors and Fragrances (a multi-million dollar company) agrees.<br />
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“Our business,” he has said,” is basically sex and hunger.”<br />
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The Sex Life of Food: When Body and Soul Meet to Eat, Bunny Crumpacker<br />
2006 Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press<br />
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Illustration:<i> Another Kiss </i>Lura Astor<br />
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The familiar scent of his cologne rearranged my thoughts like bright shards of glass inside a kaleidoscope. - Body of Evidence '91, Patricia D. Cornwell <br />
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If you are on Pinterest click <b><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/luraastor/perfume-scent-odor-fragrance/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span> </a></span></b>for my olfaction images #fragrance #fun #perfume #scent #packaging #installations #bottles #humor<div class="blogger-post-footer">copyright: Lura Astor/Lurana/lastor/lurana.com</div>Lura Astorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536795462551023352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115176115709702333.post-76084138500423806722016-08-07T10:11:00.003-07:002016-08-07T10:11:37.105-07:00Sailing on Scent<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO6Md5KrhgLvgNIa4dNBb7YQtfamt_NxD1IsfgHfVZXW0cUUeIkJeOPGzajWPB_4M6CLCHPjdZJNMr7KwSMs55XJoy1oOxNBQNKYdnN_dLUPZuAlPFmp5hNg9qPdlvqcjhC2NwlpANOfg/s1600/eyes+of.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488653347711213714" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO6Md5KrhgLvgNIa4dNBb7YQtfamt_NxD1IsfgHfVZXW0cUUeIkJeOPGzajWPB_4M6CLCHPjdZJNMr7KwSMs55XJoy1oOxNBQNKYdnN_dLUPZuAlPFmp5hNg9qPdlvqcjhC2NwlpANOfg/s320/eyes+of.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 223px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br style="font-family: verdana;" /><br style="font-family: verdana;" /><br style="font-family: verdana;" /><br style="font-family: verdana;" /><br style="font-family: verdana;" /><br style="font-family: verdana;" /><br style="font-family: verdana;" /><br style="font-family: verdana;" /><br style="font-family: verdana;" /><br style="font-family: verdana;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> </span></span><br />
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what is this chemical alphabet that our noses read so effortlessly from birth?<br />
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<i>Raspberry Bouquet</i>: Lura Astor<br />
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- Coty Perfume<br />
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Perfumes are chemical poems.<br />
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Smell is our chemical sense.<br />
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Plants that wake when others sleep.<br />
<br />Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day,<br />
<br />but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Darek Fidyka was paralysed from the chest down following a knife attack in 2010, but can now walk using a frame after receiving treatment in which nerve cells from his nose were transplanted into his severed spinal column, according to research published in the journal Cell Transplantation on Tuesday.<br /> <br />"When there's nothing, you can't feel almost half of your body. You're helpless, lost," the patient, who is now recovering at the Akron Neuro-Rehabilitation Center in Wroclaw, told BBC's Panorama programme.<br /> <br />"When it begins to come back, you feel you've started your life all over again, as if you are reborn. It's an incredible feeling, difficult to describe," he said.<br /> <br />Specialist olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which form part of the sense of smell, were used in the treatment as they are pathway cells, enabling nearby nerve fibres to be continually regenerated.<br /> <br />Pawel Tabakow, consultant neurosurgeon at Wroclaw University, led a team of surgeons in removing one of the patient's olfactory bulbs before transplanting cultured cells into the spinal cord.<br /> <br />Scientists think that the cells, implanted above and below the injury, enabled damaged fibres to reconnect.<br /> <br />"What we've done is establish a principle, nerve fibres can grow back and restore function, provided we give them a bridge," explained Geoff Raisman, chair of neural regeneration at University College London's Institute of Neurology, who led the British research team working on the joint project.<br /> <br />"To me, this is more impressive than a man walking on the moon. I believe this is the moment when paralysis can be reversed."<br /> <br />Tabakow said it was "amazing to see how regeneration of the spinal cord, something that was thought impossible for many years, is becoming a reality".<br /> <br />Scientists now plan to hold clinical trials on 10 patients in Britain and Poland.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">copyright: Lura Astor/Lurana/lastor/lurana.com</div>Lura Astorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536795462551023352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115176115709702333.post-8355836376243005492014-08-08T15:55:00.000-07:002016-01-10T12:43:33.153-08:00Fan and Lace<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I receive a gift of a fan and lace from someone moving out of town, reminded of lace fans while watching <i>Gran Hotel</i> with its evocative soundtrack and beautiful lace pieces in the costuming of 1905-7 Spain.</span></span><br />
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I liked to call him Sean, his Irish name. It's a very masculine name, like him. He drank a lot and his pipe was part of him.<br />
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Martin smiled. <span style="font-size: medium;">“Yes, well, life is short and art is long. Perhaps we can cook up something artful.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Science shows that people recognize their own scent based on their combination of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins. While </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">we may not be able to pick our fingerprints out, our brain knows what we smell like. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So it seems that we choose scents that amplify our own MHC peptides and favor perfumes/scents on another that amplify a non-self MHC type. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That Smell <i>- Lynard Skynard</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oak tree you're in my way </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There's too much coke and too much smoke </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Look what's going on inside you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ooooh that smell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can't you smell that smell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ooooh that smell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The smell of death surrounds you </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Angel of darkness is upon you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stuck a needle in your arm </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So take another toke, have a blow for your nose </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One more drink fool, will drown you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ooooh that smell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can't you smell that smell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ooooh that smell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The smell of death surrounds you </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now they call you Prince Charming </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can't speak a word when you're full of 'ludes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Say you'll be all right come tomorrow </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But tomorrow might not be here for you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ooooh that smell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can't you smell that smell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ooooh that smell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The smell of death surrounds you </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hey, you're a fool you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stick them needles in your arm </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know I been there before </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One little problem that confronts you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Got a monkey on your back </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just one more fix, Lord might do the trick </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One hell of a price for you to get your kicks </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ooooh that smell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can't you smell that smell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ooooh that smell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The smell of death surrounds you </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The smell of death surrounds you</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">copyright: Lura Astor/Lurana/lastor/lurana.com</div>Lura Astorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536795462551023352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115176115709702333.post-17572697236116409692014-07-15T14:34:00.002-07:002014-07-16T10:29:30.640-07:00humor in perfume marketing<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">In <i>Brave New World</i>, Aldous Huxley imagined a future where people would go to concerts to experience "scent and color" instruments where each note transmitted enticing smells of sandalwood and other perfumes and projected pictures on the ceiling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />A well-known writer got collared by a university student who asked, "Do you think I could be a writer?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />"Well," the writer said, "I don't know .... Do you like sentences?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />The writer could see the student's amazement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sentences? Do I like sentences? I am twenty years old and do I like sentences? If he had liked sentences, of course, he could begin, like a joyful painter I knew. I asked him how he came to be a painter. He said, "<i>I liked the smell of the paint.</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- Annie Dillard, The Writing Life</span><br />
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