Seven Notes on Perfume —— Understanding the "fragrance" of perfume

This is a book that makes me overjoyed. I saw this book by chance, and it is also a kind of fate between me and this book. I would have thought it was a boring or pure etiquette book, but it gave me a new understanding of Xiangdao.

When it comes to incense, most people first associate it with religion. Looking back at the scenes where we will use incense, it is not surprising that most people will use it in religious places, and more people may just worship incense to their ancestors, because the source of incense cannot be separated from religion.

Humans have a long history of using incense together. People in Geshitian pray for divine power and smoke. Occasionally, they will find something pleasant to burn because of the burning of vanilla, which may be the origin of using incense. Up to now, most religions worship Buddha with incense, which is a sign of language for me.

The reason why this book is the seven notes of the fragrance world is that it mainly describes seven aspects: fragrance, making fragrance, fragrance containers, using fragrance, tasting fragrance, fragrant tea and fragrant culture.

In addition to the previous chapters, incense products, incense making, incense utensils and the use of incense are more of an introduction to incense, which is called the primary knowledge of incense. The next few chapters are more about the attitude and mood of the perfumer, who knows the true "fragrance" of incense. Of course, the test and cultivation of mood need the cooperation of many environments and factors.

Not only that, but also think of tea and piano, for the elegance and quietness of incense. It can be seen that the author's pursuit of incense is high. He not only has strict requirements for incense, but also has the same requirements for scented tea, and even has certain research on Qin.

Burn incense, play the piano and taste tea. This seems to have become a luxury for modern urbanites. Perhaps this luxury has little to do with money, but more of a spiritual pursuit.

Speaking of "leisure" and "exquisiteness" in life, the best way to combine the two is to drink tea and taste incense. In other words, tea and fragrance in life are originally exquisite parts of leisure culture. It's true, but tea is not as delicate as perfume. It still has its unrefined side in ordinary life (I can't bear to say "rough" here), but if tea and perfume can be combined, it will not be exquisite.

For most people, they may not be as obsessed with incense as the author described in the book. All we ask is to light a stick of incense, watch the white smoke rise, meditate for a quarter of an hour and forget those troubles.