A Remedy for Anxiety: Atelier Cologne Orange Sanguine
I suppose this isn’t a review, or really like anything I’ve written thus far on my website. May is both a challenging and joyful month for me, so I took a mental health break and focused on clearing my mind. Atelier Cologne Orange Sanguine played a role for me in my head clearing, so I wanted to write about it here and illustrate how powerful fragrance can be. When I find myself in an anxious state like I did the last month, I want routine and familiar things. I spend lots of extra time with my family, re-watch favorite tv shows and reread favorite books. The familiarity of things, knowing what happens next and listening to characters say the same lines, calms my mind.
Recently, I realized why I like to wear Orange Sanguine when I feel anxious. Orange Sanguine is like rereading my favorite book, but in scent form. There are scents that keep guessing, teasing your nose with many different notes and layers, forcing you to think about it all day. And then there are linear scents that smell the same all day and drift in the background as you go about your day. Orange Sanguine is quite linear, and I love it for its simplicity.
The notes listed for Orange Sanguine are blood orange, geranium and sandalwood. Blood orange plays the star role though, and it’s really all I smell when I wear it. To be honest, I’ve never tried too hard to think about the notes of Orange Sanguine. All I’ve ever thought is how happy it makes me when I put it on; it’s liquid sunshine in a bottle. It has many happy olfactive memories attached to it. My maternity leave with my daughter, the beach at Cape May and hot weather in general. The first spritz of this jolts my brain out of its endless anxiety circle and puts me in one of these happy memories.
There are some fragrances in my collection that I will never be able to write a review about, or discuss technically. Some scents are incredibly personal, so to describe how they make me feel would take pages and pages, and even that might not be enough. Even just sniffing Orange Sanguine without putting it on my skin would help me get through these days last month. Fragrance plays a powerful role in my life, and I imagine it does for many of you too. I hope you are all keeping well and smelling wonderful!
I did do a mini video review of Orange Sanguine of my Instagram page, check it out if you want to get a little more detail about this cologne!
