Hello. My name is Lancelot Murray. I am the owner of www.samplethefragrance.com. We sell perfumes & fragrances for women and men through our online store. However, we are more than just an online fragrance etailer. We strive to identify and highlight consumer dissatisfactions within the fragrance industry and provide a platform to make your concerns and ours known through blogs. We believe that by working together we can bring about positive change for all.
Recently, there has been an increasing buzz of discontentment among purchasers of perfumes and fragrances. Many are unhappy about the increasing unavailability of .05 oz. vials of free fragrance samples. They have become more and more difficult to acquire. Further, there is a growing dissatisfaction with the overly utilized fragrance sampling method implemented at many brick and mortar perfume counters.
It is common knowledge that department stores are where fragrances are most commonly sampled and purchased. At www.samplethefragrance.com , we boldly declare that department stores' fragrance counters are not the ideal environment for sampling fragrances. Here is why.
On approach to a typical department store fragrance counter, one becomes overwhelmed by the heavily fused odor of many different fragrances that permeate the air. One's sense of smell becomes tainted by the smorgasbord of various scents. Under such conditions, it is difficult to grasp the true bouquet of a fragrance under consideration for purchase.
Then, one's fragrance selection is sprayed onto a thin strip of paper from which one is expected to sniff. It begs the question. Would sniffing the fragrance on a sniffer strip give the sniffer reasonable feedback to base a purchase decision? We think not.
The only true way to sample a fragrance is to apply it onto the body. Wear it at the time of day the fragrance manufacturer suggests. Sample it for at least one week before making a determination whether or not the fragrance is right for you.
In order to perform these necessary pre-purchase tests, a fragrance sample of sufficient quantity should be readily available. The sample scent should be used exclusively and consistently during the test period.
Here are a few questions that should be answered before making a fragrance purchase selection. Is there a harmony between your body's chemistry and the fragrance? What comments do your friends and family make about the new fragrance when it is worn? Is the fragrance long lasting? Did it enhance your attitude in some meaningful way? Is it all you expected it to be and more? In your opinion, is the fragrance worth the asking purchase price? Those and other personal factors should be considered as a part of the fragrance purchasing decision process.
Now here is a major part of the problem. Acquiring fragrance samples from department stores and other fragrance outlets have become increasingly difficult. Fragrance counter representatives inform that fragrance samples are in short supply. They too complain that manufacturers provide fewer samples than they have in the past. Consequently, there are increasingly fewer free fragrance samples to be offered.
The short supply of free fragrance samples has given rise to the sale of these .05 fluid oz. vials of scents. Evidence of this can be found in the growing number of etailers who offer fragrance samples for sale online. That too begs the question. If fragrance samples are in such short supply at popular fragrance counters, then where are etailers getting the fragrance samples they offer for sale online? Are the samples they offer for sale authentic?
We believe the sale of fragrance samples in any form is unethical and constitutes an act of immorality. The free fragrance sample concept was created to allow fragrance lovers to sample scents free of charge. The idea is to encourage would be purchasers to sample a fragrance free of charge, be captured by its aroma and enticed to purchase a regular sized container at full price. This fragrance sampling model however appears to be in jeopardy today.
If the availability of free fragrance samples decline but the sale of these samples persist and increase, individual product lines and the entire perfume and fragrance industry could be negatively impacted.
At Sample The Fragrance we want to encourage manufacturers or those responsible for the shortages of supply, to continue making samples available free of charge and in greater quantities. Also we will persuade manufacturers to impose measures to discourage the sale of fragrance samples.
Please join us in our quest to achieve this worthwhile goal. We encourage your feedback. Email us. Blog with us. Share your experiences on fragrances you have tried. Liked it? hated it? We want to know.
Also, please visit our site and subscribe to our newsletter. It will be our way of keeping you up to date with all the advances in our drive for free fragrance samples in adequate supply. Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you real soon. Bye for now.
Lancelot is my name. I am a West Indian by birth. Care to venture a guess from which island I hail. Take a hint. It is not Jamaica.
On numerous occasions, I attempted to acquire fragrance samples from brick and mortar fragrance counters. Never got them. It was then I decided to raise an alarm over it.
Join me.
Perfume is one of those products that may influence our emotions. People`s sense of smell influences behavior and sets different moods. It may even bring up memories of the past. As a marketing tool, perfume is also present in our everyday lives and it can be found in lots of consumer products. Besides the fact that perfume is so popular, have you ever wandered how it came into being what it is today? What`s the history of perfume?
Some anthropologists say that perfume was used by primitive man thru the burning of gums and resins for incense. Eventually from 7000 to 4000 bc, richly scented plants, animal and fatty oils of olive and sesame are thought to have been combined with fragrant plants to create original ointments.
Three thousand years ago in ancient Egypt, historians believe that perfume was first used in rituals, as part of their religious ceremonies, creating a pleasant smell. These scents came from gums, resin trees, oil and from a variety of plants resulting in a perfume unguent that was rubbed into the skin. Hundreds of years later, women of Egypt were using perfume for their cosmetic qualities. It is believed that Egytptian queen Cleopatra had her own exclusive balms and scents used as cosmetics and aphrodisiac, which helped her to conquer Julius Caesar and later Mark Anthony. Also from this same era, it is believed that perfume was used in Mesopotamia for ritual ceremonies. And farther east, in China, aromatic herbs were used for medicine purposes.
Later on as trade routes expanded, perfume became very popular and demand for scent products increased trade among different civilizations. Africa and India started to supply Middle Eastern civilization with spikenard and ginger. Syrians sold fragrant goods to Arabia. Mediterranean civilization began buying cymbopogon and ginger from South Arabia. And so the trade of scent goods kept on, and as it continued to swell, fragrance perfume was eventually introduced thru time to several civilizations such as Hindus, Israelites, Carthaginians, Arabs, Greeks, Romans and finally reintroduced hundreds of years later in Italy and France.
By the 13th century Italy was doing major trades of spices and perfumes with Eastern civilizations. Portugal and Spain were also trying to establish important trades of spices by having exclusive routes to the East. That`s how the new world of America got to be discovered.
As Italian perfume influence swept over neighboring countries, France began expanding the use of perfume by first offering perfumed gloves, which were most often perfumed with neroli or animal scents such as ambergris and civet. From then on, French perfume has become famous worldwide and today sets the standard for excellence.
Also France played a major role in reestablishing the use of perfume for therapeutic purposes in the western world. It has been reported that during Word War II, therapeutic perfume had been used in the treatment of wounds and burns, and later in the treatment of psychiatric problems.
Perfume has brought different people together in the past thru the trade of aromatic scents. It also played a major deal, since its trade meant economical power for the nations. And so the history of modern man has been greatly influenced by this special product, enabling new worlds to be discovered. On a personal level, perfume is capable of influencing people`s behavior and that by itself sets perfume in class by itself. Perhaps that`s what makes it so desirable by all of us.
Roberto Sedycias
IT Consultant for PoloMercantil
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Becoming something from anything
was a great bliss of paradigm.
I take a dip in anonymity.
You will never know
where do you start a rough patch
on the road ?
A prehistoric site could not outlive
the humiliation of proximity to hate.
Violence chewed the dust.
My knees give way to anguish of morality:
horror of captivity of dawn.
The eyes are going to collapse in endless night.
Tapping of kernel in hard shell of truth bothers me,
like a mountain dew under the stone.
I will destroy the anxiety of grass.
Death of desire may take place
Fragrance still devastates the moon.
SATISH VERMA
Satish Verma
Satish Verma was born in 1935, did his post graduation in Botany in 1957.
At the age of 18, he started writing poems in Hindi and got them published in various journals. In 1957 he started a literary journal called Lahar (The Wave...) which immediately became a grand success and sold like hot cakes.
In the early 60's he successfully tried his hand at translating the classic works of Ravindra Nath Tagore like Balaka, Jyoti-Kanikain and Manimal into Hindi which were hailed as landmarks in the art and craft of translation.
His versatility and creativity almost goaded him to compose poems of a different sort and a class by themselves which came out in volumes like Prayaas and 1974 and Other Poems.
In 1980 his first- ever collection of English poems called INWARD JOURNEY saw the light of the day, which was well received and reviewed in various journals and magazines in India and abroad.
And all these years he was teaching Botany to graduate students.
In 1980 itself he started a social project of Holistic therapies called SEWA MANDIR which in due course of time has become the biggest institute of charitable kind in Asia. Sewa Mandir, however, was also in a way responsible for making Satish the poet undergo a long hibernation. And for about 25 years he did not write a single word.
And suddenly the creating urge erupted almost in a volcanic fashion and for the last two years he has been writing literally daily without any compromise with profundity, infact.
He has been rightly called "a talented poet" by Mark O'Connor, the Olympic poet of Australia and John Kinsella has found "Certainly something interesting and spiritual and tough! happening" in the poetry of Satish Verma. While Christopher Rollason has been impressed by "a strong and elegant line, forcible rhythms, and memorable use of alliteration and assonance" in the recent masterpieces of Satish Verma, E.E. Sule finds Satish's poems "exhilarating" exhibiting "a restless spirit in a surrealistic quest..." .
Satish's poems written during the last couple of years will shortly be published in his forthcoming volume called Beyonds & Betw?on.
Presently he lives in Ajmer, INDIA.
He can also be reached at kantasatish@gmail.com
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