An immaterial expression of the personality, the perfume, by its wake, participates in the individual identity of the individual. In humans, the desire to adorn, embellish and sublimate oneself is universal in time as in space. Tattooed, scarified or superficially cutthroat skin, modeled skull, perforated lips, ears or nose, the body is the ideal support for these metamorphoses in which the most unbridled imagination disputes it in the strictest of terms. The transformations brought to the skin and to the body always have a meaning in the communication to the other. Individual decision or social pressure, the reasons for these acts depend on the cultural context and are based on an ideal of beauty, a ritual of passage, individuality, belonging to a group ...
True visual language, body marking marks the stages. of life, recounts births and mourning, immortalizes marriages, betrays rank and fortune, indicates tribal affiliation.