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Scents-Harmonies of Color, Seen
or Taste Said to Be as Capable O
Giving Aesthetic Pleasure as Har
monies of Sound-Taste for Per
fume Can Be Cultivated Like Taste
for Music.
Is your nose educated? Gan you
| tell, for instance, the difference be
tween lavender and garlic with your
eyes shut? If not, you had better be-
gin to give your nose daily setting
up exercises, for the long neglected
sense of smell is coming into its
own.
Perfume concerts are the latest con-
tribution of science to aestheticism,
and persons who have always depend
ed largely on convention to tell them
what to like and dislike in the cate
when turned loose among futuristic
perfume harmonies.
The perfume concert is a recent sci
entific experiment. 1t has long been
held by some scientists that harmonies
Of color, accent, Or taste, are az caQa-
Bile of giving aesthetic pleasure as
harmonies of sound If we enjoy Sc
ries of musical chords, they reasoned,
why should we not enjoy a series Of
perfume harmonies or a series of
blended colors? A dress or painting
may be beautiful by reason Of it's
colors alone. But both color and
perfume have always been made to
serve as accessories. They have been
ignored as aesthetic stimulants Yet
both can be fixed In scale, similar
to the musical scale, scientists find.
Using these scales harmonies or
clashing chords and sequences can
be evolved just as in music. This, In
a general way, is the theory of the
scientists who have experimental with
perfume and colore
Describes Liquor "Organs."
So far as taste goes, it will be re-
membered that Huysmans in one of
his novels describes a liquor organ.
This was made up of a scale of
liquors in glasses, and combinations
were formed and tasted by the opera
tor. The symphony Of taste would
seem to be a more far-fetched idea
than the concert of color or scent
1t is especially far-fetched now in
this country, for aesthetics would be
able to rig out complete set of liquid
notes for an organ.
More practicable, perhaps, would be
a soda fountain organ, with a scale
running from strawberry to vanilla.
The difficulty is that one sample at
a time of the soda clerks skill at
harmonies is enough for most people.
A complete symphony, consisting Of a
succession Of allegros, adagios, col
ege delights and cherry whoops would
Knock almost any patron of the arts
INTO transports Of Indigestion. The
American stomach will have to be
before the American
sense of taste can be very much de-
yeloped to appreciate the soft-drink
concert.
The color organ presents fewer diff
:ulties. At least, it offers no inter
lal danger to those testing it's de-
lights. 1t has been used for some
ime as an interesting novelty.
How Color Score Is Written.
The score for color composition is
olors are projected on a screen in
he combinations and order that the !
core directs The concert is pro-
uced by an operator at an organ-like
Instrument with keyboard and stops
yhich control different light rays
Almost any one who is not color
lind or is not entirely devoid of a
ceiling for beauty can get some pleas
re from simple color concert, it is
Maintained Very simple harmonies
aquire more sensitive audience. OF
curse, at any color performance the
erson who is a critic and a lover
colors can get much more out of
he display than a person who is In
Ifferent to the appeal of the spec
'um
Civilized man Is used to depending
i his eyes for information more than
4 his ears, nose, or fingers. For
lat reason, at least, the color organ
rs chance for popularity. When
comes to the neglected nose, 1t
ems likely that at first only a few /
nsitive souls will be able to enjoy
lily the subtleties Of perfume con-
rt.
From PatchouIi to Civet. |
A perfume scale has been fixed by
:. Septimus Piesse, French chem Y
:. He uses delicate and pungent {
ents for the high notes and the '
avy scents for low notes. Though t
W Of the odors of his scale are not
miliar to the layman, most Of them (
e so we quote the plan Of the per t
me keyboard. t
with the bass cleft; three
Laves below middle @: do, patchou- 0
re, vanilla mi, Glove bark; ia, ben v
n, SOL frangipane; la, storax 81
We; do, sandalwood re. clematis;
rattan; ia, castoreum; sol, pergu-
re la, balsam of Peru; 81, carna- t
n; do, geranium; re, heliotrope; h
iris; ia, musk; sol, pois de SON. n
II; la, balsam Of Tolu; 81, CHINA tt
n; do, rose. a
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