A very brief summary of the hoarding phenomenon, which is behind all types of collecting. Buying and hoarding stuff is also a primary mode of the capitalist system, which we are all subject to (except for perfume lovers in North Korea - if there are any.)
You’ve captured the essence of the collector’s “struggle” perfectly- at least for this collector! Off to read Fromme… perhaps will only “have” his ideas but in time, hopefully, I’ll internalize them.
Great thoughts. I need to read that Fromme. I’ve been wrestling with that idea of having too. Guy Debord posits (in the 1960s) that we’ve moved from “having” to “appearing”, as a society. A look at Instagram (social media) and this starts to really resonate (with me at least).
I'm extremely interested in the subject of samples (I refuse to make them), as well as in accumulating, classifying and saving them or all kind of things. Encountering a fragrance is so elective for me. I wonder when a sample has allowed me to confirm or deny a love at first sight. Choosing a perfume is for me like meeting someone who becomes a dear friend, it's rare and precious. Samples could be like people I meet in the street or at a party. maybe, that's why I'll never be a big perfume collector. Goethe spoke about elective affinities. It makes our love for a perfume so precious and endearing
A very brief summary of the hoarding phenomenon, which is behind all types of collecting. Buying and hoarding stuff is also a primary mode of the capitalist system, which we are all subject to (except for perfume lovers in North Korea - if there are any.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_orientation
You’ve captured the essence of the collector’s “struggle” perfectly- at least for this collector! Off to read Fromme… perhaps will only “have” his ideas but in time, hopefully, I’ll internalize them.
Great thoughts. I need to read that Fromme. I’ve been wrestling with that idea of having too. Guy Debord posits (in the 1960s) that we’ve moved from “having” to “appearing”, as a society. A look at Instagram (social media) and this starts to really resonate (with me at least).
It's such a pleasure to read you, to enter into an intimate history of perfumes and to practise my English reading you.
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I'm extremely interested in the subject of samples (I refuse to make them), as well as in accumulating, classifying and saving them or all kind of things. Encountering a fragrance is so elective for me. I wonder when a sample has allowed me to confirm or deny a love at first sight. Choosing a perfume is for me like meeting someone who becomes a dear friend, it's rare and precious. Samples could be like people I meet in the street or at a party. maybe, that's why I'll never be a big perfume collector. Goethe spoke about elective affinities. It makes our love for a perfume so precious and endearing