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well, well, well. FINALLY i am done with my ica 2 speech and FINALLY i presented! hahaha. it went incredibly bad in my opinion. i am not confident about that A now. but who gives a fuck. so everybody just let me forget it, and rejoice in the fact that it is over and that THE HOLS ARE COMING! ANTICIPATION! ANTICIPATION!
anyway, here's my speech. i hate informative speeches. too much information, too little time. tsk. what the fuck can you inform in 5 pathetic minutes. i barely made it even after all the cutting of the paragraphs in a way that resulted in abso-zilch coherence and flow within my entire speech. pfft. you suck, tyng.
topic was perfume. and for the first time, i went "blah" at these sweet-smelling loves. but then, i secretly liked my look, especially loved shirt, today. (: until my classmates say it showed how ___ my boobies. ALAS!
That Olfactory Satisfaction
Olfaction, or more commonly known as the sense of smell, is one very important component that makes up the five fundamental human senses. There are suggestions from research scientists that smell can influence mood, memory, emotions, mate choice, the immune system and the endocrine system. While proverbs suggest that “beauty is in the eye (or nose in this case) of the beholder” and “to each his own”, there is no denial that the modern society is dependent on perfumes as a source of provision of pleasant scents to the human body, objects, and living spaces.
Good morning, Mrs. Medora and fellow classmates. If you haven’t guess, my topic for today is perfumes. And my speech, titled “That Olfactory Satisfaction” will touch on two main points: firstly, the brief history of perfumes and perfumery, and secondly, some early and present usages of perfumes.
The word perfume came from the Latin phrase, "per" meaning "through" and "fumus" meaning “smoke”. This was because the first form of perfume was incense-based and thus, pleasant smells drifted through the air as smoke from the burning incense.
Perfumery, or the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt but was developed and further refined by the Romans, Greeks and the Arabs.
And indeed, incense was first discovered by the Mesopotamians about 4,000 years ago. The world’s first chemist is considered to be a person named Tapputi, a perfume maker who was mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second millennium BC in Mesopotamia.
From artifacts such as the hieroglyphics on ancient Egyptian tombs, it was learned that perfume played an elaborated part in this ancient civilization. When incense made its way to Egypt around 3000 B.C. it became so popular that Queen Hatshepsut led expeditions to search for incense and other valuable commodities. Being fastidious in their personal habits, the Egyptians took elaborate baths, which were the forerunners of the luxurious bathing establishments of the Greeks and Romans. Egyptians also created many scented creams and emollients. But perhaps, one of the greatest Egyptian inventions with perfumes would be the addition of these scents into their embalming process, which I will elaborate later on.
The Romans and Greeks invented different kinds of unguents used simultaneously, with certain scents reserved for particular parts of the body.
The process of extracting oils from flowers by means of distillation, which is the procedure most commonly used today, was developed by Avicenna, the Arabian doctor and chemist. He first experimented with the rose. Until his discovery, perfumes were a strong blend. Rose water was more delicate, and immediately became thriving among the ladies of the court.
The history of perfume is often intertwined with the history of the human race. However, as humans develop, technology advances and the standard of living thus improved, the use of perfumes is no longer a privilege of the privileged. Though the greatest use of perfumes in the past was with the aristocracy and those of means, it is in the present that anybody and everybody uses perfumed products, one way or another.
Incense-based perfumes were initially commonly burned in the religions ceremonies of the ancient culture.
As the gods, pharaohs and priests were gradually relinquished of their exclusive rights, incense, aromatics, and perfumed oil became available to all.
Perfumes were buried with the dead. And the Egyptians even added scents into the ingredients used for the embalming process, which is the prevention of a corpse from decaying by treating it with special substances that preserves it. The process is also called mummification.
Ancient usages of perfumes also included pampering enhancements for enjoyment such as bath essences for the elaborated baths of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans; for medicinal purposes such as the oil of cedar was used to coat papyrus manuscripts to protect them from insects in Lebanon.
In the present, men and women have fragrance wardrobes of many different types of perfumes, using different scents pertaining to occasions and moods.
We could say that more and more of us seek out high quality aromatherapy perfumed oils to use in exactly the same way as our ancestors did. Perfumes are considered a norm in today’s extravagant array, no longer a prerogative of the higher-class, and definitely not a sacred offering.
On a final note, I would like to say that perfumes are indeed an attractive and alluring appeal to us humans. With the successful search of that fragrant extension of you, that scent that you will always wear with sensual pleasure, one is able to live day by day with the utmost level of confidence and high-spirits. And in years to come, a whiff of that familiarity will trigger memories of the youth, of those days, of those times. Aromas are forever etched in the mind. Be it caramel popcorn, bouquet of lilies, freshly cut lawn or the dawn’s virgin dew. Everything has its special essence; it’s to satisfy your olfactory organ.
Thank you.
for someone who loves oral comm, my demonstration was a dumb-failure LACK of passion, calmness, coherence AND all the good points. there goes my 25%, A, gpa, orlando (not bloom.) dreams. martin luther king can go kiss my your his ass. i have a dream, my pfft. i have no idea why i am ticking him off, but his "i have a dream" thingy just happened to tick me off.
anyway, i had a real wild laughing session with ____ (to protect him from getting slaughtered by his girl, i had to beep his name. not that we have some-some-something, but his girl is just damn against him having a whale of a time. or something. i think. *shrugs. (: ) yesterday. you and your red speedos and matching reflective-lens-so-i-can-see-myself goggles. tsk tsk.
NUR, WE MUST GO SEE HIM (and hopefully there are tons of cute asses.) IN WATER POLO ACTION NEXT WED MON OKAY?
(oops. hahaha. )
nur and i had alittle chat about the whole friends-drifting-apart issue. honestly, i think i am a punk when it comes to this kind of things. i would give anything for friendships of mine to remain sweet always; i cant deal with the awkwardness that comes with souring friendships. it's like it hurts so bad that even when you meet up or something, there's this fucking barrier preventing all the intimacy and nostalgia and love and hugs and kisses from diffusing into each other's hearts. I CAN NEVER LIVE WITH IT! it will bug and bug and bug me, and i will cry and lose sleep and lose my appetite (okay, that's not a bad point. honestly. i seriously need to lose more weight.) and whatnot.
so,
i just hope all my friendships are intact from the cruel mutilation of time and absence.
ta-ta.
xoxo.
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