The power of olfactory perception to suggest and evoke, to trigger an association or a faraway memory, enables every aromatic essence to create its own world, enveloping us in a private realm of impressions and images, harmonies and desires. Manipulating our most intimate sense, the parfumeur becomes the architect of emotional spaces, a painter on the canvas of imagination, a sculptor in an intangible material that works at the deepest level of sensibility.
— From Scents and Sensibility, an article at France Today about the Osmothèque perfume museum in Versailles.
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Next time I am in Paris, I am going!
Do! And give us a full report! I would love to go…
Perhaps we could think about a group tour….Seriously!
I know the logistics could be something to work out, but why not at least give it some serious thought?
I think Sniffa might have gone there? If not, I'm sure they will!