[Sca-cooks] Feast Ambience - incense

[Christina Nevin]

>Serena da Riva
>Who avoids using the front entrance to major department stores for abject
>fear of the PERFUME LADIES.

Oh yes, I'm with you there. No problems with incense, in fact I find it
rather pleasant and relaxing, but I have a very nasty reaction to most
perfumes nowadays - my throat swells, my breathing becomes difficult and I
break out almost instantly in a very painful prickly red rash on my face. I
used to be a major fan of Chanel #5, Fendi, Red Door and other such scents,
but now I can't even stand next to someone on the Tube who's used a little
too much perfume (and it's amazing the number of women who can't tell the
difference between scenting themselves and marinating themselves)[oblig.food
content].
Perhaps it is the alcohol or fixative though, as I don't have any trouble
with oil-only perfumes (I got a really nice one called 'Myth of the
Morrigan' from the Perfumed Garden at Pennsic XXX) or alcohol-free perfumes
(though there aren't many of them around). And I have noticed the last
couple of times I overindulged (OK, got smashed) that I got a rash. I would
like to think I'm not developing an allergy to alcohol, but I have this
'barn door' feeling... :-P
Though actually if we got people to wear period scents to feasts they
wouldn't have alcohol in them would they? Wasn't that an C.18th innovation?
Jadwiga?

Lucrezia


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