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A more inclusive vocabulary

Posted by Robin on 25 June 2021 3 Comments

"Fragrances of the World," first published for nearly 40 years [sic] by Michael Edwards, is adopting "a more inclusive vocabulary" for his [sic] Fragrance Wheel and doing away with the outdated fragrance term "oriental." Beginning in July of this year, Edwards will instead adopt the term "ambery."

In addition: Soft Oriental will now be known as Soft Amber; Floral Oriental will change to Floral Amber; and Woody Oriental will shift to Woody Amber.

— Read more in Goodbye 'Oriental,' Hello 'Ambery' at Global Cosmetic Industry.

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: fragrance families, michael edwards, oriental

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  1. aleta says:
    25 June 2021 at 12:48 pm

    I’m really genuinely excited to start referring to perfumes as flamber 😀

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    • Robin says:
      26 June 2021 at 10:35 am

      Flamber!!! Excellent, can’t believe I did not make that connection.

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    • jovejove says:
      28 June 2021 at 2:26 am

      I don’t see a French centric industry adopting a word that means “squanderer” in their language. If a French person were to use the word flamber in conversation, it sounds too similar to flambeur, which is like calling someone a “Chad” or “Karen”.

      Dissecting words from different languages and banning them, when they’re taken out of context from another language or country, is pointless. Negro, sauvage and oriental/orien/ori, will continue to be used in their native languages. The base word of oriental is ori, which is a base word for other words we use daily (original/ orientation), and not limited to only in English. Orion, a god who was mainly celebrated in the Eastern Mediterranean, mostly in the Middle Eastern portion of the Mediterranean, a god that could walk on water, which is why he was celebrated by Phoenician people’s. Also celebrated through the constellation for signifying the birth and end of a new year. I could keep going.

      Americans have an issue with Chinese people saying 那个 “Na-ge”, which means “that”, because it sounds like the ‘n’ word.

      If anything, there’s a problem with Americans and their system that breeds hate, not language. This is a bandaid on a deep wound. It doesn’t solve the problem of hatred. Anything to divert the attention from putting money into educating people.

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