The biggest gift to us is being unique. Why waste it for the ordinary?
Cannes, September 2011. A mild late summer evening in the yacht port of Cannes - glamour is floating in the air, spiced with a breeze of sea-salt. Three women and three men on board of a motor boat, relaxing with a glass of champagne, after having a thrilling day at the perfumery fair. We laugh, praise, criticize, discuss. And slowly, the business issues are drifting away to other themes, to the big, yet so familiar ones: man and woman, the differences, the similarities. Why it gets more and more difficult, to sound out what makes a woman a woman, and, yes, what is the typical man about.
It seems proved: the overlaps get larger. Well, nice! But how come? Due to socialization or genetics? Which role is played by the men-reserved Y-chromosome, and how much power has the X-chromosome that is twice with women, yet just once with men? Men on board pulling a wry face... yet still raising the question: would the world be a better place, if it gets governed by women only? And which role do the genes play, when it comes to a partner choice?
Well, at least here we all agree, and one of us remarks: usually, those ones are matching to each other that can stand the partner‘s smell! A nature smart gambit, he explains, because we all are provided with aromatic scent-particles by the nature itself, and they get poured out through our skin.
And they‘re sending, unconsciously, reproduction-relevant information towards our counterpart, and thus providing us with selected mutual sexual attraction. Fascinating the fact, says the woman right next to him, that we automatically like to choose those perfumes which are outlining our nature-given scent profile.