Setting:
Tango dance hall at night
Close up of violinist slowly..deliberately drawing his bow across his instrument
Camera pulls back as Tango couple begins to dance….
Female dancer throws back her head in typical tango style… her dance partner pulls her in close, passionately they lock eyes, twirl, and lock eyes again…
This is my “Soulgasm” fantasy. I am the violinist, composing the music in my head, I am the beautiful female dancer, in satin dress and high heels, I am the energy between the male, the female dancer and the music and this is my dream…
I asked my 19 year old daughter what her definition of “Soulgasm” would be. She said it “is a day when everything goes right, like the day I found my perfect apartment and everything fell into place. I looked up at heaven and said thank you!”
As a Natural Perfumer and advocate of all things natural it is with blushing cheeks that I admit to you my love of certain synthetic scents. I had a feeling about this perfume called Soulgasm. I went to the (beautiful) website and read about the notes in the scent,
Head notes: Peach, Anjou Pear, South African Freesia, Black Currant
Heart notes: Night-Blooming Jasmine, Eurasian Lily, Woodberry
Base notes: Musk, Amber, Vanilla
I immediately thought of my daughter, it smelled like her.
I just knew I had to try this one.
As soon as I received my samples and opened the vial I knew my psychic intuition was spot on. This scent seriously said “Emily” all over it (my daughter). I took it over to her and she squealed with delight. She said it smelled similar to something she wore when she was even younger and that she loved the “youthful-sexy” vibe to it. She says it’s a scent that makes you feel joyful. Her only complaint came later when she realized I had given her the “smaller” of the two samples.
OK, the name…Soulgasm
My definition of Soulgasm (besides my tango dancing dream) would be a moment in time where one feels “at one with the Universe”, like the flash of knowledge one gets when one “realizes physically” that we are one…not the intellectual understanding of that…but feeling it with ones whole being. For me those have been little moments in time, as a child as well as an adult, looking at daisies, or sniffing the scent of real violet flowers…. I couldn’t intellectualize those moments as a child but I certainly felt them.
About the actual perfume called Soulgasm. Certainly a perfume is always about your personal vibe of the moment, how it resonates with your chemistry, mood, hormones, the desired “message” one wants to give out. If you like a sweet fruity floral *pop* with a sexy vanillic musky ambery base I say try it! I did and it is fun, lively and joyful. It lasts well and has good sillage.
A portion of all proceeds from every bottle of Soulgasm goes to the agency Vitamin Angels.
Photos above by Saffret Tuncel.
Enter to win a full size bottle of Soulgasm by commenting on site and giving us YOUR definition of Soulgasm. The draw will be at 11;59PM EST on Thursday August 12, 2010. Thanks for participating!
Monica Skye Miller, Senior Editor, Natural Perfume Editor