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Do scents (some call aromatherapy), do things for you? Or just make you happy or moody? Anything from candy flavors, foods, and paints to mineral spirits, wood, fresh air, etc. Smell is a powerful concept. Does it invoke your creativity or moods?
-------------------- Deb Fowler
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Right on Rob! When I was doing some billboards at Watkins Glen International Raceway, I had to drive by a pig farm (no longer there!). WOW........it was down hill from there!
-------------------- Tony Vickio The World Famous Vickio Signs 3364 Rt.329 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 t30v@vickiosigns.com 607-535-6241 http://www.vickiosigns.com Posts: 1063 | From: Watkins Glen, New York | Registered: Sep 2001
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Scents and signs...How can you leave out RapidTac-The nicest smell in the trade! Maybe Roger could repackage it as a cologne called RapidAttract! Although if it worked, I don't know how many people want signmakers following them around.
-------------------- Alan Dearborn Dearborn Graphics Hampton, NH USA Posts: 271 | From: NH USA | Registered: Mar 2000
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Many times while working alone (lettering) and either an aroma or a sound will trigger a memorie from the past. Sometime even one you haven't thought about in many years. The mind is a very special place. While at a 50th year HS class reunion, it was possible to take up conversations with fellow students as though it were just yesterday.
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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We emply Roy, whose wife has an aroma therapy business. For years I've poo-pooed the concept, but there certainly is some credibility to it.I don't know the name of the scent Roy wears when he comes in, but it has an arousing effect immediatly and turns soothing after the first minute. Natural oils like that are so much easier to be around than the artificial smells in most cologne. I think some of what the aroma therapy does is connect you with the right one for you and your needs.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6805 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Well I can guarantee that we have the best smelling sign shop in Missouri, my wife runs her candle business inventory in a corner of our main office, shameless plug here - www.thecandlerun.com you wouldn't believe the amount of women customers in the shop that buy candles!!!The Candle Run
-------------------- Shawn Setzer Signs by Shawn 826 Hwy 47 East, Troy, MO Posts: 241 | From: Troy, MO, USA | Registered: Jan 1999
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Oh man, I'll have to dig out my mom's aromatherapy books again.. she makes her own line of high quality lotions, soaps, oils, lip balms, candles too and etc. using essential oils for scenting..
One day I came home and she was burning cinnamon candles.. three or four in every room of the house.. I didnt think anything of it.. then the next day I was thinking about those candles and it hit me... she was experimenting with the cinnamon scent for some specific reason.
I dug out one of her books and looked up cinnamon - I couldnt believe it, she was messing with my mind!
Turns out the cinnamon aroma supposedly arouses men, if ya know what I mean.
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Jim.....candles are ok. but there aint nuthin' like the smell of a man cookin' dinner! Posts: 3729 | From: Seattle | Registered: Sep 1999
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Ahhh... smells... Memories: Gardenias and cigar smoke, State Fair, Santa Rosa,Cal.1950,i'm 5.Turps, Spanish Village, an artists colony in Balboa Park,1960. Garlic, onions cooking pulls me right over. Rose perfume, ohhhhh!
Big Top,Big Nose
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Yeah, "The smell of One Shot in the morning......" Not my quote, but I've heard it t every meet!
Yeah, Rick, I love the smell of "Corners of the Mouth" (Health food store in Mendocino) but my friends HATED it!! HAHA, Somepeople's sences are So limited!
Aromatherapy is powerful stuff..... Remember the story of the old man who's wife used to put a little vanilla behind each ear when she was 'in the mood'? Everytime she baked cookies he'd get a woody!
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what a riot! garlic makes me think of the italian restaurant I worked at salad chef when I was 15- they used wine in the salad dressing, and in the later hours when dinner was done, they would play the piano and take the checkered tablecloths off the table and push the tables together and dance! Voila! The smell of a clean but sweaty man after work isn't bad, but remember the Jade East cologne, reminds me of my first love and the Beatles' song "good day sunshine". Since I've made candles since 1974, I get to go to the little bungalow in the bog 12 miles from here, run by Madeline who is in her 70's,called(Bayberry Bog) with the potbelly stove and smell any of the three hundred scents she has, and believe me it is too overwhelming, like a kid in a candy store! The true aromatherapies are really wonderful, being natural and yet more expensive, but sometimes I use those too. Lavendar reminds me of the lilac tree I had as a child and brings me back; black licorice reminds me of the mountains and waterfalls in Colorado as we traveled and camped through as a young teen, eating and soaking up the beauty. I remember the folds in the rocks and the gushing and sparkling of the waterfalls dancing with the sun with the smells of fresh pine and raw rock. A fresh morning of crisp air after a snow turns me on, (before the traffic starts up), and the smell of frangipani and jasmine remind me of the bike rides in Florida around the orange groves. The smell of different incenses bring me back to the 60's and 70's and what fond memories they are! I do get creative, and things just get unleashed! Not last, and not least can you believe that I can actually tolerate the stinky smell of rotten mangroves in the Fla. Keys doesn't bother me, it meant a get away with no worries and soon salt water air! am I crazy to bring this stuff up? Of course, but I thought it would be interesting and fun!
-------------------- Deb Fowler
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The hint of gum turpentine reminds me of hanging around my mother's painter friends when I was a tot. More than a hint and I think of art school and all of those lousy paintings.
The smell of gasoline in the wrong place always causes me alarm.
The smell of burning hickory wood at LC's Barbeque in Kansas City....no comparison.
The smell of nitro fuel at the drags. Real macho.
The smell of that top secret room deoderizer the "ladies" use when they come to clean every week. So clean.
What is the worst? The US Army is experimenting with that right now in Afghanistan, I just heard about.
Too bad we can't 'paint' signs in smell.
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Glad you brought that up.........and I HOPE Latigo is reading this at some point! Those Breakfast Burritos just ain't gettin' it!
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Linseed oil for me, it aint therapeutic in any way but just smells good enough to drink. David
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Ok..........let me imagine this. Latigo and Si are in a small enclosed area, both eating Si's cooking............................................................................
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homemade bread baking a pine christmas tree line dried laundry coffee brewing hauling hay freshly cut grass in summer the air when it's about to snow a nice deep expensive box of chocolates
I use pure peppermint oil on sore muscles, as well as inhale it if I feel ill or have a headache. I also have tried pepper oil on my sore tummy. (a woman thing) You smell funny, but these both work great. It took me awhile to figure out why my bookeeper smelled different than most.. guess who got me hooked??
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Deb, I just amputated all the limbs of our xmass tree....I can't wait till next year when we will cut our own and bring that aroma back into our house. A tradition that always brings back memories of family! Thanks...fun topic! Joe Makin Chips and Havin Fun!
-------------------- Joe Cieslowski Connecticut Woodcarvers Gallery P.O.Box 368 East Canaan CT 06024 jcieslowski@snet.net 860-824-0883 Posts: 2345 | From: East Canaan CT 06024 | Registered: Nov 2001
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yes, the smell of a fresh cut pine tree still invokes my senses of the first colored primary colors: the Christmas tree bulb lights, (the large ones, a palette of live color), the bubble lights, and inflated artsy plastic colored Santa Clauses with elves, the light up candy canes and Santa on the porch, smells... smells....connect me with memories... by the way, Si is there something about your cooking we don't know about?
-------------------- Deb Fowler
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