Odors curl through fiction, evoking mood, unveiling character, and giving immediacy to the distant past. Their primal power has inspired olfactory investigations from the lab to the arts. Yet around us seethes another dimension of the physical universe: the ocean of odors, pulled in with every breath-whiffs of sweaty socks or steaming pho, voluptuous wafts of jasmine, acrid hits of hot tarmac. Language is drenched in the audiovisual: we feel blue, admire visionaries, find that an opinion resonates. Sometimes we seem to be all ears and eyes.
Smells: A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Timesīy Robert Muchembled, translated by Susan Pickford
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