Perfume

• Some common interpretations for perfume are: Our praise to the Lord, being beautified, being prepared, being honored and being cleansed.

• Perfume changes your emotions and causes you to be drawn to it. It can be a pleasant experience, or it can speak of being caught in a trap.

• Referring to how perfume lifts the emotions: • Proverbs 27:9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [does] the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

• Dreams • Positive: A bride was prepared with oils and perfume to prepare her for her wedding night. Esther is a good example of this.

• This speaks of the Bride of Christ being prepared and made ready for her Groom. It speaks of her falling in love with her Groom - which is Jesus Christ.

• The Scriptures also speak of our praise being as incense before the Lord; that it is a pleasing smell before Him.

• Incense was offered before the Lord twenty-four hours a day under the Old Covenant. Our incense is our praise and worship.

• Speaking of the Love of Bride and Groom • Song of Solomon 4:10 How beautiful is your love, my beloved, [my] bride! how much better is your love than wine! and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices! • As believers we also diffuse the perfume of Christ everywhere we go - or we should anyway! • Because of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, as we go through this world, we carry that treasure inside of us.

• It is just like wearing perfume. Everyone that passes you should be effected by it. I give a good description of this in the Practical Prophetic Ministry book when teaching on the ministry of the prophet.

• 2 Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks [be] to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.

Negative: The Scripture also speaks of the perfume of the harlot and adulteress.

• It speaks of being captured and seduced into the things of the world; of being deceived into thinking that you are being offered something good, when in fact it is false and full of sin.

• Speaking of the harlot (world) that seduces; a love that is false and empty: • Proverbs 7:171 have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

• 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

• 22 He goes after her immediately as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks

See

Aloes, Honey, Oil.

For you to perfume your garments and person, denotes that you will seek and obtain adulation. Being oppressed by it to intoxication, denotes that excesses in joy will impair your mental qualities.

To spill perfume, denotes that you will lose something which affords you pleasure.

To break a bottle of perfume, foretells that your most cherished wishes and desires will end disastrously, even while they promise a happy culmination.

To dream that you are distilling perfume, denotes that your employments and associations will be of the pleasantest character.

For a young woman to dream of perfuming her bath, foretells ecstatic happenings.

If she receives it as a gift from a man, she will experience fascinating, but dangerous pleasures.

If one sees his bottle of perfume evaporating in the dream, it means regards accompanied with apprehension and danger.

If a sick person smells perfumed oils in his dream, it means his death.

If a woman perfumes herself in a dream, it means engaging in good deeds.

If she is unmarried, it means that she will get married and the same goes for men.

If a thief or an impostor anoint himself with perfume in a dream, it means that he will repent for stealing.

(Also see Amber, Galia moschata, Musk)