“Good times equate with good smells: even cow manure smells great because it evokes such wonderful memories; conversely, bad times equate with bad smells.” – Antony Synnott
Hedonics
“Odour is a significant component of our moral construction of reality and our construction of moral reality. The fundamental hypothesis is simple: what smells good is good. Conversely, what smells bad is bad. ” – Antony Synnott
Let us scent your fragrance!
“Go on, O Lord, and make an end of it, stir us up, and call us back; kindle us and pluck us to thee, be fragrant, and grow sweet unto us.” – AUGUSTINE
Magic
“Magic, in order to achieve its greatest potency, must enter through the nose.” – BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
Nothingness of Scent
“Duft (i.S.v. Parfum) ist nichts und kann deshalb alles werden.” – CHRISTIAN JANECKE
Creativity
“Wherever I create something I like, I can be sure that it is too far out.” – ANDREAS WILHELM
Everything
“I know of nothing that has no smell.” – JEAN-CLAUDE ELLENA
Seasonal Greetings!
“B. O.” is the indispensable Other of the perfume and fragrance industry, despised and feared at the same time; to be eradicated, yet its raison d’etre.” – HANS RINDISBACHER
The social role of a perfume
“Perfume plays a social role in that it effects a unique synthesis of individual egoistical and social purposes in the field of the sense of smell.” – GEORG SIMMEL
Ambient scent!
“In social organizations smell is a rich unconscious background to everything else.” – OLIVER SACKS
Perfumer
“As a perfumer I am the car. The FDM is the driver.” – Andreas Wilhelm
Olfactory communication
“In Hades, psyches perceive each other by smell alone.” – HERAKLT
Ephemeral strength
“There are strong perfumes for which all matter is porous. One would say they go through glass…” — CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
A sociology of smell
“Smell is in the nose of the smeller, but also in the culture of the smeller.” – ANTONY SYNNOTT
Ocularcentrism
“Now sight is superior to touch in purity, and hearing and smell to taste.” – ARISTOTELES
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