“We can smell only what is in the process of wasting away…â€Â  — G.W.F. HEGEL, Continue reading Condition of smelling
Category Archives: DICTUM
Of our delight in smelling
“As for the tempting delight of sweet smells, I am not too much taken with it. When I miss them, I do not seek them; when I may have them, I do not refuse them: yet also ready always to be without them.” – AUGUSTINE (354-430) Continue reading Of our delight in smelling
Rejecting an appeasing scent
“I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell the scent in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer Me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs, for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.” – AMOS
Disorder of things
“The specific problem with the olfactory in this respect is that its linguistic structure of reference always throws us back into the disorder of things.” – HANS RINDISBACHER
Fragrant wizard
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.” – HELEN KELLER Continue reading Fragrant wizard
Simulation
“It is easier to make an airport tunnel smell like real jasmine than to use pictures, a video, or a trompe l’oeil to make people believe that they are walking through a real jasmine plantation in that tunnel.” – CHRISTOPHE LAUDAMIEL
Surprises
“There is no wonder for those who can not be surprised.” – Â MARIE von EBNER-ESCHENBACH
Perfumery
“Perfumers actually compound music: perfumery is to olfaction what music is to hearing and painting to sight.” – CHRISTOPHE LAUDAMIEL
Perfumer
“At the beginning was actually not the Verb, but the Scent: for chemical detection was the communication tool used by the first bacteria appearing on earth, for food and reproduction.” –
CHRISTOPHE LAUDAMIEL, CHRISTOPH HORNETZ, BRAJA MOOKHERJEE & SUBHA PATEL Continue reading Perfumer
Matter!
“Smell is a quality not to be separated from matter.” – IVAN VAN BLOCH Continue reading Matter!