Gina-Marie Gerdis
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Custom Perfumery, Herbal Body Products |
| Location | Louisville , KY, United States |
| Introduction | My first year of working in Perfume,at a passionate and impressionable sixteen years old, introduced me to an artform that combined three areas of lifelong interest,specifically Magic, the Mysterious, and the Human Brain. Case in point: .A spritz of Shalimar can weaken the knees, the Tresor worn on a honeymoon can rekindle a long dead romance, Curve, its reported, can trigger undeniable urges of the most improper sort within 4-5 seconds of detection. But even knowing how olfactory stimuli plug into the evocative processes of the limbic system, the mysterious effect of certain fragrances on the human brain still straddle the line between science and magic. The act of perfuming ourselves and our spaces remains the most modern equivalent of casting a magic spell.There is no ignoring that which smells like hell, and no forgetting that which smells like heaven. |
| Interests | Writing, Perfume, Perfumery, Herbalism, Aromatherapy, Jewelry, Custom Crafting Perfume, Jewelry, Natural Cosmetics and Body Products,........ Writing was, as best I can recall,my first Love. But following swiftly on its heels were my many Aesthetic passions ...perfume,paintings,herbal body and beauty products and jewelry.Custom work is my specialty. All my life I've been happily aware of what I believe is a God-given gift that allows me to see the unique beauty each person possesses. In all my pursuits, I've found that the common thread winding through them all is the act of expressing and enhancing those qualities that lend every individual their own, absolutely unique Beauty. |
| Favorite music | Really??? Oh man, what a loaded question, OK..... Alison Krauss, Eminem, Anything with Cello, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, Lykki Li, Mindy Smith, Iggy Azalea, Bela Fleck and Phish from b-b-b-back in the day....Adelle, The incomparable Tori (good ole Under the Pink and Little Earthquakes. Do our hearts ever really let go of the music that accompanied, provided therapy,and basically just held our hands through our High School years? I'm voting No, Never, Not really), Fiona Apple, One Republic, Mumford and Sons, Imagine Dragons, Radiohead, Micah Gerdis, Digby, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Janice Joplin, Lorde, even if she IS a bit of a bitch-its good stuff, Dido, Eminem, definitely loved me some Nora Jones there for awhile, Coldplay, Nikki Minaj in her ghetto years, Itty Bitty Piggy, anyone? Cat Power, Mute Math, Outkast specifically:SouthernPlayalisticCadillacFunkyMusic, ATliens and Aquemini, Eminem,Billy Holiday, Aretha, Eminem,...seriously I could go on but for those who even made it this far, I'll show mercy and cut it short. |
| Favorite books | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.Ten Days in a Madhouse -Nellie Bly,Anything by Anne Lamott, A Not Entirety Benign Procedure, Stephen King's : The Eyes of the Dragon. Anything by Dave Barry, I've literally read and loved them ALL. Anything published bybThe Onion, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The Grapes of Wrath. Gooberz. All of the Sweet Potato Queens Books. The Brothers Karamazov. The History of Perfume. The Stargazer's Notebook. Aromatherapy by Danielle Ryman, all herbal/aromatherapy themed books by Scott Cunningham, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Brave New World, How to Cook Everything, Look Me in the Eye, Fabulous Fragrances, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, Everything ever written by Tom Robbins, esp.Jitterbug Perfume, Another Roadhouse Attraction, Villa Incognito, **Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire (this I stumbled onto at the freaking DOLLAR store,and its AMAZING...I highly recommended it to anyone interested in the magical,medical,and spiritual uses of plants and their lore), |
You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?
My answer(Though I'm sure you've figured it out; I mean, this one's pretty obvious) :Puce with red stripes. N to the ninth power. "The Sound of Music". Moose. Indian.