Demeter has launched Rice Paddy, the latest addition to their Fragrance Library.
A fabulous and unique combination of the young, green shoots, the emerging rice and the water. This fragrance has elements that are fresh and energizing, while also reflecting the calm, almost Zen-like nature of the rice paddy.
The development of this fragrance was very personal. I had wanted to make a Rice fragrance for some time, but despite several efforts, I was unable to come up with anything satisfactory. Then on a trip to Taiwan I visited a factory, and on each side of the factory was a working, living rice paddy. At the first chance I slipped away and spent 30 minutes contemplating that paddy and inhaling its scent. It was that experience I tried to capture in this fragrance.
Demeter Rice Paddy is available in 15, 30 or 120 ml Cologne ($6 – $39.50) and in matching bath & body products.
(via demeterfragrance)
Really?! Because the only rice paddies I’ve ever smelled smelled like water buffalo crap. Used for fertilizer and when tilling they just poop in the field. LOL, I find this frag idea hilarious because I swear they never have been in one.
And I’ve been in China, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, they all smelled the same. I’m a farm girl so I sort of like the smell of animals (I also like the smell of skunk, but that’s a whole other issue) but I just don’t picture it as a perfume. Rice plants themselves, maybe, Rice Paddy, NO.
I will verify that the rice paddies in Madagascar smell like Zebu poo, too! It was *precisely* the comment I was gonna make, but you beat me to it!
Don’t know about rice paddies, but I am intrigued about you and skunk as I find I like the smell of fox (much to the horror of my family)! What does skunk smell like? Fox has a musty, musky, coffee like aroma to me.
Skunk has a very very sharp pungent odor they release when frightened or confronted. They raise up on their front legs with their back legs in the air, lift their tail and let go from a gland near their anus. Unlike other animals with similar glands I don’t think skunk is used for any type of frag. A fresh release is VERY strong, but wafting on the breeze in the country…I don’t know why I like it, maybe just because it reminds me of the country and the farm. I can also remember that when the poor farm dogs got sprayed, grandma would give them a bath with tomato juice, one of the few things that cut the stink. Otherwise they had to slink around, the other dogs avoiding them, until it naturally went away (a long time).
I have heard people actually keep skunks as pets, and that they behave similarly to cats. I think they have the glands removed that produce the foul smelling stuff in these cases though.
There was a man who raised skunks and sold them as pets in Michigan when I was a little girl. He de-scented them – I understand removing the scent glands was a very simple procedure. As pets, they are much like cats. However, the state made removal of the scent glands illegal as animal cruelty. People would grow tired of their pets and release them. The odor released by the glands are the only real protection skunks have.
This is true. It’s not to mark territory like other scent glands, it’s a defense scent. Maybe that’s why it isn’t used in frags, not for love, for war LOL
Will have to take your word for it … never been to a rice paddy
I almost bought a mini of this with a Demeter order I placed last week, but I decided from the blurb that it probably smells more like water and grass than like rice or grain … wish Demeter actually had a “boiled rice” or “rice steam” scent. I know CBIHP does one, but his stuff (though I love much of his work) is much much more pricey, and not worth it to me for a “novelty” scent like rice steam.
LOL I completely agree with previous comments. I spent my childhood playing in a paddy field next to my grandparents’ place and it smells like rich, warm, buffalo droppings
the Demeter perfume probably smells pleasant, if nothing else, but the association with paddy fields makes it difficult for me to take it seriously.