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|  The fifth sense, otherwise known as our sense of smell, has
always been my favorite of all the human senses. Most of my childhood memories
involve a certain smell; my mother's chocolate chip cookies, the field where we
played soccer, the horse barn, my dog's green-stained paws after he ran around
on fresh cut grass, my first car, the scent of Bonnie Bell Lip smackers....
sour grapes, bubblegum, toasted marshmallow... and Mr. Sketch scented magic
markers. I think I tried to eat the blueberry
marker when I was a kid.
It probably doesn't seem like a big leap that I would be fascinated by
fragrance from an early age. I remember asking for Ungaro Diva for my 14th
birthday. Imagine a 14 year old wearing
that scent? I was taken by the bottle
and the image of the model in the white dress that mirrored the bottle's shape.
That's when the perfume collecting began. Throughout every stage of my life; high
school, college, jobs, friendships, vacations ~ there's a perfume memory. But it’s not simply a memory of wearing a
certain perfume, it’s more specifically that the scent of certain perfumes
evoke, sometimes startlingly so, memories and events in my life. In high school I vividly recall wearing Perfumer’s
Workshop Tea Rose (and Poison and Lou Lou by Cacharel but I digress). If I smell Tea Rose today, I can visualize the
hallways of my high school, my orange locker that I could simply kick open,
didn’t need to dial the combo, I can see all the posters and notes and stickers
inside that locker. Smell, more than any
other sense, transports me, and I find this amazing.
Over the past few years I've delved more deeply into the
world of perfume. I've read about the
various perfume houses and their "noses", those elusive fragrance
artists and their inspirations. My taste
in perfume has evolved perfume by perfume to where I now love at least one
fragrance from each scent category. Even if I don't love a perfume enough to
wear it there are so many that I admire and enjoy smelling and trying on. I have come to the conclusion that perfume
is, quite simply, an art form. Yes, there
is some science or perhaps chemistry to the development of perfume, but in the
end, it is an artist who creates a beautiful fragrance.
This brings me to today, to the creation of The Posh Peasant. In my quest to read, smell and investigate
everything I could get my hands on about perfume I found some fantastic perfume
blogs, (check my perfume musings & links section for a list of essential
reading). To my absolute delight I
discovered I wasn’t entirely crazy, there are loads of people out there that
don’t just have one signature scent but instead change perfume with the seasons
(I believe most of us accept the term “perfumista” by now). Truth be told there are a good number of us
who switch perfumes during the course of a day and I got a good chuckle when I
found PerfumeCritic.com with their daily shout board that uses the following
acronyms for this behavior: SOTM = Scent of the Morning, SOTD = Scent of the
Day, SOTE = Scent of the Evening!
I have always been
ecstatic when a new bottle, sample or decant I've ordered arrives in the
mail. Nearly everyone I know gives the
standard advice to always “follow your passion” in life, so I decided to create
a business that involves selling one of my favorite things, perfume, for other
"perfumistas" to enjoy. I wanted The Posh Peasant to meet two
goals. To sell full niche lines as well
as a vast array of hand-made decants.
For the niche lines I’ve specifically sought out the true “indie”
perfumers who make their perfumes in small batches and to me are the “real
deal.” Since the site just launched I
will be adding about a half dozen more niche lines in the next few weeks and I’ll
be continuously adding to the decants section.
I sincerely hope that The Posh Peasant allows
you to further explore the beautiful world of fragrance to your hearts content!
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