Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France’s ninet

"Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France's ninete

Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores literature, medicine, fashion, and social practices during the rise of modern French perfume culture.

The scientific and social history surrounding the 1880 incident of a foul odor in Paris and the development of public health culture that followed. Late in the

The sense of smell has long been the most neglected of the human senses in literature. Common Scents sets out to undo this forgetting of olfactory sense-making