Aroma

We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
— Anaïs Nin
 
 

It’s the closest thing we poor creatures have to magic, my dear – the ability to be transported through time by a waft of scent that unlocks memory
— Jason Fry


Perfume is that last reserve of the past, the one which when all our tears have run dry, can make us cry again
— Marcel Proust
I don’t exactly know what that smell is, but whatever it is, I think it’s doing the job you’ve intended. It makes me feel good, because it smells good. Not too sweet. A little mysterious, but that’s fine.
— Patient A, 2021