A few of my fav things and scent-memory.
Antiques are a fun pastime for me. They remind me of family whom I love in my life and their homes and special places. I have had the privileged to have been passed some elegant and beautiful memoirs in my time. These items bring with them a scent of times gone by. A musty and dusty memory. As much as that worn memory makes me sneeze a bit it also brings loving thoughts of my grandfather, grandmother and times of yester-years. Scent memory is the strongest form of memory for us in our lives because the cells in our brain for scent and for memories are comprised of the same stuff. They are literally made up of the same type of cells. Our brains connect them as one and the same.
You probably know what I mean when I say that a scent will take you back to an exact moment in time! That it will bring a feeling with it that just washes over you with an amazing force!
As an Aromatherapist I am in love with things of this nature. Things that are of a previous time in medicine-making history and things which bring with them a history and a beauty that I feel items we buy now don't have to them. Take a look at these vintage bottles I found while on a trip recently out East. I am in love with their old-fashion charm. I love their relation to my current trade and the beauty they possess because of what they represent in what they were made of. Life before plastic.
Antiques are a fun pastime for me. They remind me of family whom I love in my life and their homes and special places. I have had the privileged to have been passed some elegant and beautiful memoirs in my time. These items bring with them a scent of times gone by. A musty and dusty memory. As much as that worn memory makes me sneeze a bit it also brings loving thoughts of my grandfather, grandmother and times of yester-years. Scent memory is the strongest form of memory for us in our lives because the cells in our brain for scent and for memories are comprised of the same stuff. They are literally made up of the same type of cells. Our brains connect them as one and the same.
You probably know what I mean when I say that a scent will take you back to an exact moment in time! That it will bring a feeling with it that just washes over you with an amazing force!
As an Aromatherapist I am in love with things of this nature. Things that are of a previous time in medicine-making history and things which bring with them a history and a beauty that I feel items we buy now don't have to them. Take a look at these vintage bottles I found while on a trip recently out East. I am in love with their old-fashion charm. I love their relation to my current trade and the beauty they possess because of what they represent in what they were made of. Life before plastic.
Lets call the next group THE FANTASTIC FOUR ! These are a few of my favorite. My artistic side has fallen in love with their lines.
This bottle even has a label. Vintage labels are the inspiration for my own label designs. I show one of my own labels below this bottle.
I studied many vintage labels before coming up with this design for my own products.
I studied many vintage labels before coming up with this design for my own products.