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“If music be the food of love then play on”<\/em>…. So many of us know this line but how many know it is from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In this play, the character Orsino is head over heels in love with Countess Olivia. However, she\u2019s placed herself into a period of mourning, so Orsino can\u2019t woo her. Find out more about the power of music here in our take on the phrase Music be the food of love spray on<\/em>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the play, Orsino asks for there to be an excess of music. He hopes that it will cure him of his obsessional love. He believes too much will put him off, gladly, music is too wonderful for that to happen, its power reaches far and wide. Yet how often have you thought of it as a metaphor or even inspiration for perfume? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is something quite synaesthetic about this relationship. Synaesthesia is a neurological condition that results in a joining or merging of senses that aren’t normally connected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It means that as one human sense goes into action another sense involuntary reacts as well. In very simple terms, someone with synaesthesia may hear colour<\/em> or see sound<\/em>. Some perfumers are known to have this trait and talk of scent in terms of colour, texture or even sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But these traits are far more common than simply those with Synaesthesia. Perfume and music naturally share many strong sensory relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting very easily of course with notes. Both music and scent are made up of notes, all be it very different but none the less, they carry the same name. A musical songsheet is made up of a collection of notes as a perfume is made up of a set of layered notes top middle, and base of course. Music has bridges, hooks, a chorus which echo the layering of perfume. It is a depth that both have as a commonality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both of course must blend seamlessly: a tune that is not pleasing to the ear would be like a badly mixed fragrance, no one wants that. Unless of course discordant music really is your thing…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the very sensory nature of a blend between musical notes and different instruments makes for the pleasant experience of listening to sounds as does the excellence of blending of perfume notes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately both need genius to be achieved; the musical composer the perfume nose. The composition is at the end important for the notes to work in harmony together. Both fragrance and music, just like art too, stimulate our senses that then go on to trigger memories and emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet some new perfumes on the market that celebrate and are inspired by music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Both the following two fragrances by L\u2019Orchestre Parfum inspired by modern dance music and are done as collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s start with L\u2019Orchestre’s \u2013 Electro Limonade Eau de Parfum, a scent composed by perfumer Nathalie Feisthauer and interpreted by NIID, the french Electronic Musician. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening with fresh lemon, clementine, and Italian bergamot that meets with bright mint, and ginger going further into the middle with delicious and very fashionable rhubarb and orange blossom finishing with a base of amber woods, incense, and Haitian vetiver.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole scent is built around the idea of A terrace in the Mediterranean, think chilling with a cocktail at sunset, but a whoosh of fragrance that carries you through the night, that air of southern European freshness that accompanies you on the contemplative restful moment on a wonderful holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It does open with an utter fizz of lemons and is so perfectly named, but settles into a warm skin like mellow sweetness the echoes the very mood of the moment. The soundtrack is so perfectly suited; a synaesthetic symbiotic fusion perfectly balanced resting on the shore of beach heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the soundtrack Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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