The word "Perfume" derives from the Latin language and means "through the smoke." This hints of incense, perfumed incense that were burned to release their scent of fragrance.
 Cologne derives from the French word (eau de cologne) meaning "water of Cologne." Cologne is known today as eau de toilet, meaning "water of the toilet" or "toilet water." Hmmm! What are we being told here?
Toilet water is "a scented liquid with a high alcohol content used as a skin freshener." Basically, your eau de toilet perfumes and colognes only means: SCENTED TOILET WATER! This is what you are paying for!
While ancient people really wore perfume to smell nice and alluring, today, we mostly wear perfume and cologne to mask our odor. What we generally eat today in the United States, which is mostly stuff that ferments, putrefies, and rots in our bellies, e.g. dead animal flesh (meat) and dairy products (congealed cow snot), leaves a foul odor that seeps through our pores, and because we are masters at masking things, we mask or attempt to mask the odor (foul odor) that usually and mainly comes out in our armpits/underarms, mouth (via breath), and genital area (especially pertaining to women and their vagina) which is why we have whole industries for underarm odor (deodorant and antiperspirants), mouth odor or bad breath (mouthwash, gum, gargle, breath mints, etc.), and female genitalia odor (feminine deodorant sprays and talc).
If your breath stinks, don't go to the root of the problem (which lies in your colon), simply mask it! It's the American way! Gargle or stick a piece of chewable rubber (gum) in your mouth or a pop a few Tic Tac or breath mints into your mouth.
Same thing with the vagina! If it smells, don't go to the root of the problem (which also lies in the colon as well as the uterus), simply spray on some fragrance! This is the advice of marketers of products for sale to help mask your odor problem, whatever it may be.
In ancient times, in countries such as Kemet (Egypt), fragrant resins were burned as incense offerings. However, today we understand perfume to be a solution containing 15% to 30% perfume oils and 70% to 85% alcohol, respectively.
Ancient people such as those in Egypt (Kemet) and other countries of Africa, Arabia, China, and the so-called Middle East wore natural fragrances derived from essential oils from flowers. Flowers are Nature's fragrance and source of fragrance. Many of Nature's fragrances were derived from flowers from such essential oils as Ylang Ylang, Magnolia Blossoms (Neroli), Rose, Jasmine, Linden, and Lavender. Many other natural scents and fragrances were derived from the likes of Sandalwood, Frankincense, Spikenard, Patchouli, Cinnamon, and Davana whose scents are heavenly or celestial.
What happened to perfumes between their origin and today? What is the secret? What is the mystery? The answer is: OIL! Yes, oil-based perfumes.
When we look back in history we find that some of the most precious gifts of kings, queens, and other nobility were perfume oils.
However, modern day perfumes and colognes are alcohol based. Alcohol is a toxic solvent, derived from CRUDE OIL (PETROLEUM). Plant-based oils are not. Oil penetrates any porous material, e.g. paper, wood, hair, skin, etc.; therefore, oil-based perfumes will penetrate the skin, causing the fragrance to stay. As a solvent, alcohol is a drying agent. Alcohol dries (evaporates) from the most porous material within a short period of time. The difference is that the pleasant, sensuous scent of oil-based perfumes will linger longer in addition to having a therapeutic effect on the body and thus positively impacting human health.
And look at perfumes and colognes today! The bottle does not even tell you what's in the bottle, ingredient-wise. Today, we look at the design of the bottle, smell the fragrance, spray a little on us, and buy it (if we like the synthetic smell). We purchase perfume and cologne predicated upon smell, not health. We don't care that no ingredients are listed on the bottle or box; all we care about is how good the synthetic stuff smells.
For most of us, our sense of olfaction or smell is corrupted and polluted due to constantly smelling and eating synthetic substances that have no business in or on the human body.
Many of the perfume and cologne ingredients are known irritants and are toxic through skin absorption. This is true!
There are over 600 chemical ingredients that have been linked to cancer or are believed toxic to the reproductive system. Many are used to manufacture perfume and cologne.
In 1986, the National Academy of Sciences grouped fragrances with insecticides, heavy metals, solvents, food additives and certain air pollutants as the six categories of chemicals that should be given high priority for neurotoxicity testing. According to their report, 95% of chemicals used in fragrances are synthetic compounds derived from petroleum. They include benzene derivatives, aldehydes and many other known toxic substances linked to cancer, birth defects and allergic reactions.
Ethanol is a principal chemical in perfume and cologne (and hair spray, shampoo, shaving cream, soap, and nail polisher) that can cause fatigue, irritation of the eyes and upper respiratory tract, and produce a loss of muscular coordination.
Limonene is another principal chemical found in perfume and cologne (and bar soap, shampoo, hand lotion, and hair spray) that is carcinogenic (cancer-causing). In addition, it can seriously irritate the eyes.
Linalool, also found in perfume and cologne, is a narcotic that causes respiratory disturbances. This chemical contributes to reduced spontaneous motor activity and depression.
Benzyl Acetate is linked to pancreatic cancer, the worst cancer you could develop. Its vapors are irritating to the eyes and the respiratory system. It can also be absorbed through the skin causing systemic effects.
Toluene is a solvent that causes headaches and is a reproductive system toxin. It is on the list of chemicals deemed hazardous under Proposition 65.
Toulene is used in many perfumes and colognes on the market today.
Earlier perfumes used to contain the essential oils of flowers but were too costly for manufacturers that were interested in making money, not spending it. Also, because Nature regulated essential oil production, essential oils were not readily available year round, like synthetic chemical fragrances, another incentive for the perfume industry to replace natural fragrances with synthetic ones.
Today, many people are using perfume and cologne to mask body odors and natural body scents, and for many people, rightfully so when you smell them. Because of what many people eat, many people smell outright horrible; their pores oozing out the smell of macabre from eating dead animal flesh and denatured animal excreta (dairy products) daily. People who smell (stink is a better word but to be nice I will use the word 'smell') usually smell due to what's inside their body, their colon specifically: ROTTED and DEACYED animal flesh, or MEAT!
Leave some meat out of the morgue (euphemistically called a "refrigerator") for a few days and witness the horrible smell of a thawed out cadaver. You'll be like James Brown and will say: "It's too funky in here - open up the door!"
Meat stinks, especially while it sits and rots in your intestines and with all those parasites and worms making their way out of the dead animal flesh and into your tissues, going from one host to another.
Today, many people who spray on perfume are in actuality spraying "fume" on "funk." Yes, they re attempting to mask their funk with perfume which only exacerbates the problem of the foul smell. In case you didn't know, fume and funk don't mix!
I'll admit, light fragrances can smell very sweet to the nose, and some women know how to wear their perfume, putting on just the right amount to get the job done. And then there are other women who simply smell like they screwed off the perfume bottle top and poured all the contents on their body. The results: a very loud scent that can give a smell sensitive person such as myself a massive headache.
I am convinced that most Americans would wear perfume and cologne for the smell (fragrance) despite the name of the fragrance on the bottle. I can just see the various names in my mind:
DOO DOO by Estee Lauder
MASTURBATION by Calvin Klein
CUM by Ralph Lauren
ORGY by Perry Ellis
FECES by Mary Kay
FELLATIO by Chanel
STANK HO by Givenchy
HARD ON by Hugo
BITCH by Bob Macky
POOT by Paul Sebastian
SLUT by Yves Saint Laurent
CADAVER by Giorgio Armani
COOCHIE by Christian Dior
SCANDALOUS by Liz Claiborne
Names wouldn't matter, as long as the synthetic fragrance was appealing to the senses.
It's hard for me to believe that I once was a cologne wearer. I used to wear this stuff despite the massive headaches it caused me. But I too was once deaf, dumb, and blind. As a Taurus and thus a collector (as Taurus is a collector and loves to collect things), I simply used to buy cologne simply for my cologne collection. I used to own over 30+ bottles of this toxic stuff, which included the likes of Drakkar, Cool Water, Joop, Bijon, Carrington, Obsession for Men, Tuscany, White Diamond for Men, Polo, Fahrenheit, Givenchy, and Claiborne to name a few.
I used to spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on this harmful crap until I met Sister Yuki at the Good Life Health Center in Los Angeles in 1996. Yuki was an aroma therapist and former employee at Chanel who learned the whole synthetic perfume industry. Though I didn't wear my colognes from 1996 to 1998, I still kept them. However, in January 1998 when I moved from Gardena, California, to my destiny city of Glendale, California, I gave away every single bottle of my cherished cologne collection. It was time to part with them and I happily did so in anticipation of starting my new essential oil collection which to date is over 115+ different oils, some which are very rare, expensive, and hard to find.
In closing, I'd be remiss to not cover the synthetic oils on the market (or actually street) that many individuals are wearing, especially those in the so-called conscious community amongst Black people (mainly Afrocentrics and Black Muslims).
Synthetic oils such as Egyptian Musk, Arabian Musk, African Musk, Powder, etc. are not better alternatives to perfume and cologne. There are even synthetic versions of natural oils such as Sandalwood, Frankincense, and Patchouli. You can tell the difference between synthetic oils and authentic essential oils by the PRICE, COLOR, SMELL, and DENSITY of the oil.
All essential oils do not cost the same. Most are pretty economical and some are diabolically expensive, i.e. Rose, Neroli, Linden, Jasmine, Lotus, and True Melissa. However, there will be noticeable changes in price with essential oils, whereas with synthetic oils (mostly sold on street corners, at flea markets, and in Muslim markets) they are roughly the same in price (c. $5 - $10) despite the fragrance or scent. This is the greatest indicator of purchasing synthetic and unauthentic oils.
Many fragrances have "musk" in their name and the word was very common in the last century in the perfume and cologne industry. Like with almost everything else in the United States, sex is involved in selling scents. Musk was originally used for its sexual connotation. Today, musk has been replaced with the names of certain perfumes and colognes, i.e. Obsession, Passion, etc., for sexual connotation.
In closing, for people who still wear perfume and cologne, please do not be offended or upset due to the information you just read. By no means am I telling you or suggesting to you that you should stop wearing your perfume or cologne. You are free to do as you please. You have free will to put toxic substances on and in your body.
I myself personally stopped wearing this stuff after learning that cologne was penetrating my skin and thus entering into my bloodstream and polluting my blood and lymph and thus damaging my organs, especially my eliminative organs (liver, kidneys, colon, and lungs) greatly creating the need for me to detoxify my body. Whatever you put on your skin gets into your blood. This is a medical fact! How do you think those cigarette patches for folks who want to stop smoking, work? Those patches send minimal amounts of the addictive drug "nicotine' into the patch wearer's bloodstream via the skin, so in effect, the patch only stops you from getting nicotine from cigarettes, but you're still getting nicotine. You are replacing cigarettes for a patch, both of which are vehicles for nicotine. So whether you smoke or wear the patch, you are still a nicotine junkie. You have only replaced one vehicle for another. This is all you have done when you wear the patch instead of smoking.
 Today, I only use natural essential oils for my fragrance and I greatly feel the difference.
Unlike synthetic oils and perfumes and colognes, essential oils are therapeutic and affect us on many levels, including mental, emotional, spiritual, and physiological. They are safe (most of them) to use on the skin as technically speaking, we should be able to eat everything we put on our skin as what we put on our skin is considered consuming or eating in nature. Remember, essential oils are derived from plants. They are the "blood" of plants and thus are considered a "food", well, at least most of them as a few essential oils are actually poisonous when ingested and others should be avoided while pregnant due to their oxytocic or uterine contracting affect. Many of them are skin irritants and damage (inflame) skin if directly applied or absent a carrier or base oil, i.e. olive oil, almond oil, etc.
By wearing only natural essential oils, you can help to revive your dulled sense of olfaction that was dulled by smelling synthetic fragrances most of your life.
I always tell people who wear cologne to just simply twist of the perfume or cologne bottle top and take the contents to the head like drinking beer or alcohol. You might as well! After all, the entire bottle of perfume or cologne is going to end up in your bloodstream anyway.
Wearing perfume and cologne is one of the many reasons folks need to periodically detoxify their body.
If you're interested, we list health companies that sell healthy alternatives to harmful perfumes and colognes in our "Alternative Diet and Lifestyle Manual" available in our On-line Store.
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