ANDY SAYS:

People have told me that the lighter your skin, the lighter the color perfume you should use.
And vice versa. But I can't limit myself to one range.
I switch perfumes all the time. If I've been wearing one perfume for three months, I force myself
to give it up, even if I still feel like wearing it, so whenever I smell it again it will always
remind me of those three months. I never go back to wearing it again; it becomes part of my permanent
smell collection.

Sometimes at parties I slip away to the bathroom just to see what colognes they've got. I never look at
anything else - I don't stoop - but I'm compulsive about seeing if there's some obscure perfume I
haven't tried yet, or a good old favorite I haven't smelled in a long time. If I see something interesting,
I can't stop myself from pouring it on. But then for the rest of the evening, I'm paramoid that the host
or hostess will get a whiff of me and notice that I smell like somebody-they-know.

Of the five senses, smell has the closest thing to the full power of the past. Smell really is transporting. Seeing, hearing, touching, tasting
are just not as powerful as smelling if you want your whole being to go back for a second to something. Usually I don't want to, but by having smells stopped
up in bottles, I can be in control and can only smell the smells I want to, when I want to, to get the memories I'm in the mood to have. Just for a second.
The good thing about a smell-memory is that the feeling of being transported stops the instant you stop smelling, to there are no affereffects. It's a neat way
to reminisce.