The perfumery arts in Asia have traditionally been presented as exotic or, in recent decades, mainly ignored. The ethnographic report in hand recalibrates the character and meaning of perfumery in the Islamic world illustrated by the local example of 'Adan/Lahj. By retelling the…
In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with bot…
In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with bot…
Een man, geboren in erbarmelijke omstandigheden in Parijs in 1738, heeft een uiterst gevoelig reukorgaan waarmee hij als parfumeur grote faam en macht verwerft.
Die Geschichte eines Mörders - des Mörders Jean Baptiste Grenouille, der am 17. Juli 1738 in Paris in einer stinkenden Fischbude geboren wird.