Ahh a fellow olfactory obsesionado! Im tempted to start giving you some amber like perfume names lol but I won’t do that except for one I can’t resist. The most feminine and closest to that sweet amber smell I’ve come across is Roja’s Amber Aoud. In fact I just had to spray some on ( like that first weak spray is enough it’s so strong). I only own a sample which is enough as a bottle from Roja is usually 500-1k. I’ve too had a curiosity about amber and almost all the ones I’ve come across on the market are too masculine/smelling like my Polish grandpas aftershave . Yes I agree that real amber smell is incredible! Growing up in Poland id look through my grandmothers jewelry and she had a lot of amber pieces, and she’d show me a little trick and tear up a small bit of paper into a bunch of tiny pieces and rub a piece of amber on her clothes and show me how static it is by hovering it above the pieces as they’d fly up and stick to it.
And very interesting the link between olfaction and intelligence and how the brain identifies smells also using the language portion. So cool!! Thank you.
Oh, amber is where we get the word for electricity incidentally. In Greek it was called electron and in Latin it was called electrum. On a vaguely related note magnetism is named after the Greek region of Magnesia and magnetite meant a rock from Magnesia. So that’s a particularly interesting story you have!
Ahh that’s amazing bit of info about the origin of the word!!! So maybe they saw that there was a property about it that was non-magnetic but also attracted certain things which propelled the use of that word. I copy pasted from wiki this: “Latin electrum
The classical names for amber, Latin electrum and Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ēlektron), are connected to a term ἠλέκτωρ (ēlektōr) meaning "beaming Sun". I’m sure I could go down a whole etymological rabbit hole from there lol. Anyways. Thanks for that nugget of info!
Ahh a fellow olfactory obsesionado! Im tempted to start giving you some amber like perfume names lol but I won’t do that except for one I can’t resist. The most feminine and closest to that sweet amber smell I’ve come across is Roja’s Amber Aoud. In fact I just had to spray some on ( like that first weak spray is enough it’s so strong). I only own a sample which is enough as a bottle from Roja is usually 500-1k. I’ve too had a curiosity about amber and almost all the ones I’ve come across on the market are too masculine/smelling like my Polish grandpas aftershave . Yes I agree that real amber smell is incredible! Growing up in Poland id look through my grandmothers jewelry and she had a lot of amber pieces, and she’d show me a little trick and tear up a small bit of paper into a bunch of tiny pieces and rub a piece of amber on her clothes and show me how static it is by hovering it above the pieces as they’d fly up and stick to it.
And very interesting the link between olfaction and intelligence and how the brain identifies smells also using the language portion. So cool!! Thank you.
Oh, amber is where we get the word for electricity incidentally. In Greek it was called electron and in Latin it was called electrum. On a vaguely related note magnetism is named after the Greek region of Magnesia and magnetite meant a rock from Magnesia. So that’s a particularly interesting story you have!
Ahh that’s amazing bit of info about the origin of the word!!! So maybe they saw that there was a property about it that was non-magnetic but also attracted certain things which propelled the use of that word. I copy pasted from wiki this: “Latin electrum
The classical names for amber, Latin electrum and Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ēlektron), are connected to a term ἠλέκτωρ (ēlektōr) meaning "beaming Sun". I’m sure I could go down a whole etymological rabbit hole from there lol. Anyways. Thanks for that nugget of info!
“It stinks!!!” - The Critic
Wonder if you would like the scent of a rosin bag that they use in baseball. Fresh cut lumber may often have resin.
Resin and amber forever.