smell

Author: Annick Legayle
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Publish Date: 2001-02-01
Features: Scent can not only attract and entice but also evoke aversion and disgust; it can cause illness but also dispel toxins and treat diseases. What in our lives is more mysterious than scent? Annick Legayle is a renowned scent expert from France, specializing in olfaction, scent, and the effects of perfumes and fragrances. Scent is her masterpiece. Based on the latest scientific research, this work outlines the role scent has played in our lives from ancient times to the present, the understanding people have of it, particularly revealing the relationship between scent and reproduction, health, death, as well as human sexual attraction, sexual repression, sexual abnormalities, and even incest. It also explores the connection between the nose as an olfactory organ and other parts of the body. This is a highly serious scientific work, as well as a fascinating and informative popular read.