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"Dyson returns to the vibration theory in another article later in 1928, in which he goes over some of the same ground, spending a full two pages explaining to perfume chemists that smell can neither be action at a distance nor chemical reaction of the odorant with the cells in our nose. The first point is clear because only things which evaporate have a smell, and the second because molecules like paraffins (strings of -CH2- capped by CH3s) do have a smell and are otherwise quite inert chemically." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.) "This was prompted by my friend David Armstrong, who, no doubt tired of my lyrical ramblings about perfume, suggested that I get it all out of my system and down on paper. I sat down in my mother's flat in Paris and wrote a few reviews, after which I started going around the publishing houses to see who would be interested. The only publisher who showed an interest was a small outfit that had started a series of pleasantly arcane guides (on whisky, luxury, etc.) and needed to keep it going. They paid me peanuts and made a mess of the cover, but they printed it and sold it." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"Since I'd visited Ushi with Sayoko, Ushi had taken her first paying job, tried to run away from home, and had begun wearing perfume. "Perfume?" I asked. "She has a new boyfriend," Setzu offered. "He's only 75 years old." I look at Ushi as she clapped a hand over her mouth and unleashed one of her blessed hee-haw laughs. When the echoes faded, I sat quietly and let the ladies resume their conversation." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Car exhaust, perfume, household cleaners, wood smoke. Fluoride. Tap water, toothpaste, fluoride treatments. Benzyl alcohol. Solvents, perfume, artificial flavors. Glycerin. Makeup, soap, lotion, furniture polish. SUMMARY: FOOD REACTIONS Overcoming food reactions is of absolute, pivotal importance. It is often the single most significant element of the Healing Program. In many cases it's just as important as the element of eliminating toxicity. As the old saying goes, "One man's meat is another man's poison." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Take the suburban train from Gare Saint-Lazare to Versailles Rive Droite, a twenty-minute ride. Get out of the station, which already feels provincial with its line of waiting Mercedes taxis, their idle drivers chatting to each other, and set off down thp intprminahlp Avptiiip Hn Parr He Clacmv The entire snbtirh emits the sadness of fulfilled dreams. On both sides are the large houses of those who made it a century and a half ago, giving off the curious mixture of luxury and meanness that comes from building them almost as large as the grounds, with only a little room to spare." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.) "This behaviour follows a physical law, as familiar to us as other manifestations of the arrow of time. Imagine the strangeness of a fragrance that was like a cologne played in reverse: first the sweet, soft, amber notes, then the spicy heart, and finally, in the dark of night, a blast of fresh citrus. It would be as scary as seeing the bath water sprout a shimmering column, head for the tap and disappear up the pipe. What loosens the molecules from their perch is heat. On warm skin, the molecules are shaken by thermal motion more violently than on a cold surface." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"Phthalates are used in deodorant, hair gel, mousse, hairspray, shampoo, lipstick, mascara, nail polish, and perfume, as well as in fragrances. These ingredients are often hidden, remaining undisclosed on product labels. Even though phthalate-free products are just as effective as those containing phthalates, these chemicals are used in concentrations as high as 10 percent in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other plastics for storing and packaging food. Phthalates have been well-known as hormone disrupters since 1980, when dibutyl phthalate was shown to cause testicular atrophy in rats ( 2)." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "By the time they are eighteen, many will be anointing themselves daily with toner, moisturizer, foundation, blush, eyeliner, eye shadow, mascara, lipstick, lip gloss, perfume, hair spray, and nail polish, in addition to a range of personal care products including deodorant, mouthwash, and more. They will apply hundreds of ingredients to their skin every morning, many of which will include the same dyes, preservatives, and emulsifiers, and other frequently toxic chemicals used during industrial manufacturing." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "And the most prominent dangers in perfume and fragrances are allergens. Allergens are a large group of natural and synthetic chemicals which cause sensitization of the skin, known as allergic contact dermatitis. This is entirely different from non-specific dermatitis, known as irritant contact dermatitis (4). Allergic contact dermatitis involves two distinct stages. First, the skin comes into contact with an allergen, which sensitizes specific "memory cells" to that allergen." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Chanel revolutionized the fragrance industry with the introduction of aldehydes and other synthetics, which gave fragrances greater consistency and stability at lower cost. Synthetics captured the imagination of manufacturers, and their advantages helped blind the industry to any consideration of the unknown impact these synthetic ingredients would have on health. Beginning in the 1970s, synthetic scents, usually associated only with perfumes, had been integrated into so many cosmetics and personal care products that they were a part of normal daily experience." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Used to enliven everything from candy to perfume, MA is in all products containing artificial grape flavor. MA is in purple Kool-Aid, grape soda, bubble gum and many other foods. Categorized by the FDA as GRAS (Generally Regarded as Safe), it has been used for decades without any evident signs of toxicity in humans—besides causing serious, albeit temporary damage if it gets in our eyes." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "To read their versions, they say that if you eat a couple of keppel apples, every time you pee you can fill up a couple of perfume bottles—well, it ain't so." An opportunity to confirm his findings unfortunately presented itself when I went to wash my hands after our fruit tour and found an unflushed stool in the toilet. To facilitate his experiments, Whitman had his alkaline beach sandlot dug up and replaced with six hundred truckloads of black, loamy, acidic soil. He is galvanized by the challenge of finding and growing plants no Floridian ever has before." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "When I first encountered a papaya on a teenaged trip to Central America, I was astounded by its flavor, how it filled my mouth with an edible perfume. The ones at home all tasted vaguely unhygienic. In my experience, fruits are inextricably linked with travel, with other lands, with escaping. Growing up in suburban Montreal, winters were pretty fruitless. When I was thirteen, my family moved to Budapest for a couple of years. My brothers and I had never tasted apricots, peaches and tomatoes as good as the ones that grew in our backyard and in our relatives' orchards." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Friedrich Schiller kept rotten apples inside his desk and would breathe in their decaying perfume for inspiration. D. H. Lawrence climbed nude into mulberry trees to write. Henri Michaux claims that he spent twenty years learning how to project himself into fruits: "I put an apple on my table. Then I put myself into the apple. How peaceful!" I too went off the deep end trying to get to the core of fruits. Wanting to understand these fruit votaries' passion, I spent months combing through any book that contained the word "fruit" in index searches." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Quick Fact: In 2003, a 10-year US study found that pleasant, floral-spice perfume makes women appear 10 pounds lighter in the eyes of the opposite sex. A perfume diet may be the next big thing! - Exercise Your Right to Exercise! - Moving your body is vital to "living-it" as it burns calories, resets the metabolic set point, decreases hunger and increases metabolism all day and evening (for up to two to eight hours after exercising). Exercise is the most effective way to keep your metabolism from slowing down." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"Once they're done with all that poisoning, they'll slap on some aftershave, perfume, or cologne, further poisoning their skin and liver with toxic chemicals. Some brand-name perfumes contain as many as 22 different cancer-causing chemicals identified by laboratory testing. The FDA has been petitioned to require safety warnings on such products, but has stonewalled such efforts. In 1986, the National Academy of Sciences targeted syntheticfragrances as one ofthe six categories of chemicals that should be given high priority for neurotoxicity testing." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Do you use cologne or perfume? ? Are you overweight, underweight, or do you have cellulite deposits? ? Does your occupation expose you to toxins? ? Do you drink alcoholic beverages regularly? ? Do you eat fish more than twice a week? ? Do you regularly swim in a pool or lake? ? Do you live in a major metropolitan area? ? Do you live near an airport? ? Do you work in an environment using fluorescent lighting? ? Do you drink non-organic coffee? ? Do you feel tired, lethargic, or sluggish upon waking and even throughout the day? ?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"This is Stephen Dedalus after he has confessed to a priest about being with a prostitute: He knelt to say his penance, praying in a corner of the dark nave; and his prayers ascended to heaven from his purified heart like perfume streaming upwards from a heart of white rose. The muddy streets were gay. He strode homeward, conscious of an invisible grace pervading and making light his limbs. In spite of all he had done it. He had confessed and God had pardoned him. His soul was made fair and holy once more, holy and happy .. ." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"You might, for instance, start to wheeze shortly after vacuuming the house, gardening, exercising, wearing a particular perfume or drinking a glass of wine. If you are sensitive to foods your observations may reveal a pattern linked to additives. Confirmation of your allergic sensitivities can be carried out by your doctor using skin-prick or scratch tests. RAST (radioallergosorbent) tests, a type of blood test, are used in some cases." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"But while he slept, a serpent smelled the wonderful perfume of the plant, darted forth, and carried it away. Eating it, the snake immediately gained the power of sloughing its skin, and so renewed its youth. But Gilgamesh, when he 161 Though the hero was warned against touching these waters on the journey out, he now can enter them with impunity. This is a measure of the power gained through his visit with the old Lord and Lady of the Everlasting Island." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.) "Rather, we tend to perfume, whitewash, and reinterpret; meanwhile imagining that all the flies in the ointment, all the hairs in the soup, are the faults of some unpleasant someone else. But when it suddenly dawns on us, or is forced to our attention, that everything we think or do is necessarily tainted with the odor of the flesh, then, not uncommonly, there is experienced a moment of revulsion: life, the acts of life, the organs of life, woman in particular as the great symbol of life, become intolerable to the pure, the pure, pure soul." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Some have bright colors, some have strong perfume, while others raise their temperatures. All have nutritious pollen to eat and the greatest treasure of all, nectar. Flowers have ingeniously designed themselves so the nectar lies deep inside, causing bees, insects, and birds to have up-close and intimate contact with them in order to retrieve a precious drop of nectar. Many plants have only one pollinator so that a symbiotic relationship between the two ensures their survival." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Imitating her Muslim neighbors, the empress Zoe of Byzantium (1042-1055) turned her bedroom into a home perfume factory by installing braziers; her servants were allotted particular tasks, some distilling the perfume, others mixing it and a third group bottling the scent. Not all ancient peoples were fond of dousing themselves with perfume. In 361 b.c. Agesilaus, king of Sparta, where perfume was banned, visited Egypt and was entertained at an elaborate banquet." - Peter James, Nick Thorpe, Ancient Inventions (Get the book.)

"In the case of phthalates and personal-care products and cosmetics, the addition of a small amount of DBP provides just enough "give" to reduce cracking by making nail polish less brittle and more chip-resistant. When perfume fragrances are dissolved in either DEP or DMP, they evaporate more slowly, making the scent linger longer. In hair sprays, they help avoid stiffness by allowing them to form a flexible film on the hair. Users of high-end phthalates include some of most popular perfumes." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Solvents, perfume, artificial flavors. Glycerin. Makeup, soap, lotion, furniture polish. SUMMARY: FOOD REACTIONS Overcoming food reactions is of absolute, pivotal importance. It is often the single most significant element of the Healing Program. In many cases it's just as important as the element of eliminating toxicity. As the old saying goes, "One man's meat is another man's poison." Reactive foods can literally act as a poison within the systems of certain people." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Sensitivity to perfume or other chemical odors ? Persistent joint and/or muscle pain ? Chronic infections ? Depression ? Fatigue ? Headaches The higher your score, the greater the potential toxic burden you may be carrying and the more you may benefit from a detoxification program. (If you scored below 10, you are not living on planet earth in the twenty-first century, you have fibbed on the test, or you are living a very sheltered life!" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Among other everyday sources of environmental toxins are paint, perfume, furniture, and carpets. Most of the fragrances on the market today do not come from natural flower scents or any natural scents; they're mostly chemicals. Some people can't go into department stores because they get violent headaches. Formaldehyde is used in inexpensive press board furniture as part of the glue. Many people get sick carpet syndrome because insecticides have been sprayed on carpets. Patient Story: Paint Exposure_ When I was injured on the job from some paint fumes, my whole life changed." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "She smells natural gas, or smells that perfume across the room, or she can smell food cooking before anybody else. She can smell disinfectants. If these odors bother your child and she can perceive them faster than anybody else, it means that she is probably becoming sensitized to the abundance of chemicals that we have now managed to put in our food, air, water, clothing, homes, schools and workplaces. "What else do you notice if a child is sensitive to something in school? The child may get an A one day, and an F the next day in the same subject." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

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