Would you be able to look at a collection of color swatches and distinguish crimson from vermillion, chartreuse from lime, turquoise from aquamarine from cyan, fuschia from magenta?

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• lol...thanks for the chuckle!

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  by BROADWAYTHECAT on September 25th, 2009

• NP Cat.

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  by Sir yhvhash on September 25th, 2009

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• That's amazing. It's like what musicians call "absolute pitch." I had a friend who could hear a note and tell me if it was a C or C#. I have no idea how she did it, but others also have the talent. Associating the name with the hue seems equally difficult.
  
   

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  by Mr_Natural Abstractor of the Quintessence on August 27th, 2009

• I can do it with smell also, but not with pitch. I wish. That would be great.

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  by Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot on August 27th, 2009

• I love to smell spices but I can't identify many of them by name. I would definitely mix up parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Also oregano and marjoram. Some are easy: pepper, cumin, curry, cilantro.
  
   

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  by Mr_Natural Abstractor of the Quintessence on August 27th, 2009

• I can smell them as you are saying them! But I do cook a lot. I noticed I could do this pretty well when I used to sell perfume. I could remember a fragrance years later and also tell if another perfume had like qualites in it. I was really amazed when watching a travel show on Jamaica featuring rum. This woman taste tester could mix different barrels of rum and come up with the same flavor over and over again by smell and taste. I am nowhere near that good, for sure, but she makes millions doing this. What a job.

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  by Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot on August 27th, 2009

• They have professional perfume smellers (?) who help design new fragrances. I think they make big bux, too.
  
   

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  by Mr_Natural Abstractor of the Quintessence on August 27th, 2009

• They have and they do!

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  by Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot on August 27th, 2009

• Speaking of professional smellers, remember this?
   
  http://www.dumb.com/m_pictures/704a123ccc80e7b348dadedca79eadcd.jpg
  I think it was originally published in National Geographic. Something about undesirable jobs.
   

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  by Mr_Natural Abstractor of the Quintessence on August 27th, 2009

• LOL LOL!!! Yes Yes! I worked at Alberto-Culver in 1968 (I was 18) and they had them in the company. They also had ones for FDS a feminine hygene spray. You find THAT picture and I'll give you one million points! (P.s. I worked in the office, honest)

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  by Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot on August 27th, 2009

• >>FDS a feminine hygene spray.<<
  That's amazing. I remember seeing it advertised. They took pictures? I remember the product, but I wasn't aware of the smell test or the pictures. I wonder how they picked the guys to do the smell test?? I would have sent my résumé by overnight express. Just kidding. I've never had a gf who needed that kind of product. <harumph> Natural is best. It's fun, it's healthy, it's natural, and it's 100% organic! :)
  
   

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  by Mr_Natural Abstractor of the Quintessence on August 28th, 2009

• Well, I'm sure they did NOT take any pictures that is the point, at least not for public consumption. And, I'm sure the empoyees that were the "sniffers" were not men. This was the 60's which were not all that far removed from the puritanical 50's at least not where coroporations like Alberto-Culver were concerned! Wild though, isn't it?

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  by Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot on August 28th, 2009

• >>the "sniffers" were not men<<
  
  I considered that. Then they must have been lesbians, eh?
  JUST KIDDING! If they actually did a sniff test (maybe they didn't bother) I'll bet it was with the underwear on, from a safe distance, a few feet away. (Sometimes those things explode.)
   
  Seriously, health-conscious women don't still use products like FDS, do they?
  
   

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  by Mr_Natural Abstractor of the Quintessence on August 28th, 2009

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• OOOHHH - a baby troll gave me a -1, how precious!

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  by Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger on September 25th, 2009

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• Yabbut could you say "this one is chartreuse, the other one is (whatever other made-up color name)"?

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  by Amorphous Blob on September 25th, 2009

• If it's a totally random color name like they use for paints, probably not. If it is a generally recognized shade name probably though I make no 100% money-back guarantees! Saying that Cyan blue is also known as Mystic Waters (Sherwin Williams exterior) is a skill I don't, and hope never to have :)

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  by Merriment on September 25th, 2009

• My wife & I still laugh at a shade a pamphlet called "accessible beige".

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  by Amorphous Blob on September 25th, 2009

• Aren't they absurd?

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  by Merriment on October 3rd, 2009

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• Yeah, me too.

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  by Amorphous Blob on September 25th, 2009

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• That's good enough.
  Some can't. :)

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  by Anonymous T on August 27th, 2009

• I'm right there with ya, Tom!

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  by Amorphous Blob on September 25th, 2009

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• I think the question is not about associating the corrrect name with each color but the ability to distinguish one hue from another when swatches are placed side-by-side.
  
   

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  by Mr_Natural Abstractor of the Quintessence on August 27th, 2009

• Yep, that I can do. That was my second sentence and second paragraph. ;)

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  by Cantras on August 27th, 2009

• So you did. I missed it.
  
    

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  by Mr_Natural Abstractor of the Quintessence on August 27th, 2009

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• You cheated though - you're a woman. ;-)

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  by Amorphous Blob on September 25th, 2009

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• Times up. Pencils down.

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  by Amorphous Blob on September 25th, 2009

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• Thanks.

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  by Amorphous Blob on September 25th, 2009