Iâm sure others have said this but the absurd part of having perfume as a hobby is that you are interested in something material (scent), which in itself attempts to create or capture something ephemeral (memory, an impression, a certain moment in history the scent is tied to â or, in other words, the scent of history itself). The material object is also ephemeral in a sense, since it diminishes (very slowly) and decays (also slowly. Also not quite the right word, but you understand). In worst case scenarios, you start collecting and buying these bottles of scents, building this slowly decaying library of captured moments. Perfume itself is, in a way, a paradox, an attempt to capture something that canât quite be captured (and which also slips away). But collecting it adds something to it.
(There is also, of course, the aspect of people who just hoard whatever perfume is trendy right now, or make âinvestmentsâ. Different aspect)
