scent
Pongs of praise: the history and importance of smell for our antisceptic age
That a modern obsession with hygiene has taken smell from us, as have contemporary furnishings, are key takeaways from two books containing reams of delightful facts on all matters olfactory
Stimulating little exhibition: Scent and the Art of the pre-Raphaelites reviewed
Scent and the Art of the pre-Raphaelites… there’s an obvious problem here: how do you represent one sense by another?…
The science of scent
Harold McGee’s Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells is an ambitious and enormous work. Indeed it’s so…
O Rose thou art sick
Choosing to smell of something other than ourselves, and then perhaps in time coming to view that fragrance as ‘our’…
