A brief story of love cultures

Love here is eros love, mean, sexual love. In many ancient culture, just name it, Greek, Rome, India and Chinese, Making Love is an essential thing, even its part of worship.

In Greek mythology, we can found Eros (god of love), is the matchmaker who joins Heaven and Earth. Eros represent as one of primeval forces of nature. Eros was depicted as a winged youth, slight and beautiful, sometimes with eyes covered that symbolized the blindness of love and bring silver bow and arrows (sometimes bring a flower), with which he shot dart of desire into the bosom gods and men. This mythology also can be found in Roman Mythology, cupid, son of venus, goddess of love.

India, we can found Kama, the god of love, that also an archer with a quiver full of flower-tipped arrows that can pierce the heart trough the sense. This mythology show the connection between fragrance and romance (fragrance that symbolized with flower).

Have we changed after the last few millennia? Did you catch a single frame of movie, when Jonhy propose Mary, what did he bring? Yes, a bucket of red rose. We haven't changed much. Civilizations rise and fall, but Love continues to pierces us with the same bright, scented arrows, transforming existence in showers of golden light.

The association of love (sexual love) and fragrance is close. If we looking back of May Day tradition, which celebrate an ancient fertility rite, Floraria, the spring and flowers goddess. Flora was also a "Lady of Pleasure" who perform nude dancing and orgiastic behavior on her festival. Flora so central to ancient Roman religion.

In many ancient culture, erotic aromatherapy is a common pratice. Kama Sutra, Anaga Ranga, Tantric scriptures, Perfumed Garden describe sensual practise and erotic wisdom distilled from thousands of years of human experience.

In Perfume Garden story, told us about the power of perfume made a prophetess become so aroused and disoriented by the fragrances and she lose control and submit to making love with a false prophet, Mocailama.

Like Perfume Garden, Kama Sutra also use of scent in anointing and sensual massage. Many of flowers and fragrances suggested by these texts.

This show us, correct combination of fragrance and flowers will give aphrodisiac effects, that lead us to sensual and erotic making love session with your lover. You can prepare a Mocailama's tent or a Tantric temple even wildest part of Floraria, Romance of the Rose.

In simple logic, which do you prefer, making love with someone that haven't take a bath for one week or with someone that smell fresh of Rose fragrance? So, thats show us a real relation of making love and fragrance.