Scent Word Families: Perfume Performance
Sillage, volume, tenacity, and impact
Performance: What Does it Mean in Perfumery?
This week I’m introducing you to a new feature relating to scent words: Scent Word Families(TM). You’ve had an introduction to this phenomenon over the past few weeks with scent words related to perfume performance: Sillage, tenacity, impact, and volume.
Scent word families(TM) are those scent words which relate to each other and belong to the same scent word family. This is my own interpretation and grouping of scent words and shouldn’t be confused with fragrance families. I think it makes it easier to understand some of the scent language that we use in fragrance when we can see how they go together. This is the writer in me merging with the perfumer in me!
Perfume performance describes how you might perceive a particular fragrance by using each of the scent word tools listed above. If you’re unsure of their meaning, go back through the individual posts and see how they are all related to each other and how to understand the differences between each one.
Over the coming weeks, I will be introducing you to more scent word families(TM) and how each word member of the family is related to each other. Next up is Composition. I promise that it’s a lot more fun than traditional English composition that you studied in school! My goal is to make both language and fragrance fun - while learning at the same time.
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W. Edwards Deming, American economist (1900-1993)