The scent of imagination

[sathari]

Over in the welcome post, synecdochic  and I had a bit of a discussion about scent and imagination/synaesthesia, as a result of which I promised to post the following questions for the comm to play with!

- Do any of you have synaesthetic effects around your perfumes and other scented things? (For those who aren't feeling like clicking links, synaesthesia is when you have two or more senses that overlap or interact--- some of the most common ones are associating colors with letters or numbers, although just about any combination is possible--- the link is to a book called The Man Who Tasted Shapes, in which an MD was inspired to research synaesthesia as a result of a friend who could tell that chicken was undercooked because "it didn't have enough points on it". In this case, we'd be talking about sounds, colors, textures, etc., that your perfumes and other scents call up for you--- or other scent-related overlaps: did you buy a perfume because it smells like your favorite song, for example, or your favorite color?)

- Relatedly, do any of you associate particular scents with fictional characters (ones you follow in others' work, ones you work on yourself, ones who are both, etc.?)

I'll post my answers down below as an example, if anyone's curious.

(Suggested tags: meta; maybe something related to "things we relate to scents" or "ways we experience scents")

Comments

[lunabee34]

Oh that's right! I had seen that sometimes you get free imps with a purchase. Or is that every time? Either way, it sounds awesome.

I hope other people are interested in scent!fic. It kinda sounds a wee tad pretentious when I say it out loud, but I think it would be so fun to think of the perfume as a writing prompt. Plus, it's not like BPAL doesn't wax poetical itself on the site with all the scents. LOL IDK

[sathari]

It was every time back when I was buying regularly; not sure if that's changed, as it's been a while for me.

Not pretentious at all--- admittedly, I've only ever played around the edges of the "active BPAL fandom", if you will, but it seems very much like a natural "thing" in the fandom! :)

[lunabee34]

Oh good. :)

[kore]

There's at least one BPAL RP comm on LJ, altho I don't remember if it's been updated recently.

[kore]

Writing prompt is a great idea!

I've ordered from them recently -- the shipping times have improved a lot, and they do still send frimps, altho they seem to send fewer now.

[sathari]

I've ordered from them recently -- the shipping times have improved a lot, and they do still send frimps, altho they seem to send fewer now.

That is awesome to hear! *has just placed an order and would rather have faster shipping with fewer frimps*

[lunabee34]

I ordered 12 imps and ended up getting 4 frimps. I was super pleased with that. :)

I'm glad you like the idea of writing prompts. I am having a lot of fun with them.