Why Don't 'They' Say?

The internet is nothing if not a vast receptacle of 'things you were never told...' People make such claims all the time, it seems, nowadays.

And some of these 'things' indeed seem to me quite legitimate in the sense that they have been 'suppressed' as information down through the years, for what reasons no one will ever really know, I suppose.

What aftershave, for the well-heeled?

But if we are smart modern minds, we simply have to take into consideration the effects of sophisticated Western marketing, and the way this tends to skew popular beliefs, or to grab the focus away from actual hard facts and onto the media 'message.'

I'll give you an example of something that is part of my standard family background 'knowledge base,' I guess you could call it, but which would not occupy too many people's attentions unless they were in a particular industry.

Here's the example: regardless of the fact that people do know about the 'spice trail/s,' and its history, they still are unable to apply common sense to for example, the eventual outcome of the spice trail on French perfumes... ...for instance. No one ever, not even Luca Turin or Roja Dove in any of their books will say that clearly, the traditional methods and ingredients in perfumes manufactured in the Orient or in India, found their way into what was MARKETED as 'French-invented/created' fragrances.

You see, the fact is, even now, if you purchased a 'big brand house' name French perfume, you will pay a substantial amount of money - for what is essentially a re-packaged, re-branded, stock standard traditional Indian-made essential oil which has been added to an alcohol solution.

You might pay ten dollars in India, or via an on-line purchase direct from the traditional India manufacturer, and pay literally a thousand dollars for the actual exact same thing, albeit the latter diluted in alcohol solution and held in a neat glass bottle.

Russian Leather - totally unisex

Things like Muguet, or Russian Leather - are formulations that have been made by several big names - Chanel, Guerlain, Floris (the English house), Coty; all have made the same thing at different times, since originally, the creators would sell their formula to several manufacturers.

And so, even in the most authoritative reference books, the list of ingredients and the way of formulation is in fact wrong. You see, the belief exists and no one even inside the industry will challenge it because they just lack a lot of common sense and are stuck in the hubris of their positions - that various ingredients now known by certain nomenclature (for one example, take cypriol...) were 'invented' at a certain place, at a certain time, by a certain person or persons...

And even when they tell you, what they think is the truth, when you examine it, it is just plain silly.

'Nagarmotha' fragrance extract- which is called 'cypriol' (extract from the nagarmotha plant) was created by the M. L. Ramnarain perfume house of Kanauj, in India. According to the experts. And that is partly quite correct.

Cyperus or Nagarmotha plant - common nutgrass 

Except that it was 'invented' a lot earlier than supposed.

Cuir de Russie (Russian Leather) by Chanel (original Chanel version, invented by Ernest Beaux in 1921) contains nagarmotha extract - and that is because those people knew about the spice trail, they knew people from the actual authentic spice trail, and they got their ingredients from the actual authentic spice trail. That's what 'secrets' were all about back then; they were genuinely exotic things and real 'secrets.'

Nagarmotha is a very common ornamental plant you can find in any suburb. Almost everywhere in the West it goes by the name of 'nutgrass.' It is neither the tiny hard nutty seeds nor the small short-lived flowers which produce the essential oil or 'fragrance,' but the roots.

Nagarmotha from M.L. Ramnarain is harvested wild from the lower sections of the Himalayas, so yeah, that is pretty exotic... But otherwise, you can get the same stuff from more or less anyone's back yard here in the suburbs.

So cypriol they will make you believe is a few decades old. It is, in Western perfumery at least as old as a hundred years. And in ancient traditional Indian perfumery, many many thousands of years...

And I tell you all that to tell you this: if you believe the Russia collusion narrative began with Peter Strzok or someone like that, or in the FBI or something like that, and that the actual Russians (be they Russian government or just 'Russians') hacked computers to 'meddle with elections' you have no memory, and you are - like most of the modern media, and the common population as well, totally nuts.

Soon, my lad, soon my gal, we will be looking at what really happened, and knowing that, then, we will be able to know what is happening, next. Or now, as in fact it is happening now. Right now. Oh yes; exciting days.

So why don't 'they' say? Because 'they' don't know.