Qui fait l'ange fait la bête: Odeurs et parfums en occident. Epigraphie Religion according to legend

according to legend

Giulio Guidorizzi

Neither Jesus

most of them previously unseen

figure majeure du naturalisme portugais encore méconnue en France

Qui fait l'ange fait la bête: Odeurs et parfums en occident. Epigraphie Religion according to legendIf our culture relegated the sense of smell as animal, it has constantly and unknowingly "spoken about the nose" through our likes and dislikes, our sensitive memory and our spiritual or religious experiences. This essay questions what was at stake in the age old contempt for olfaction and then questions its contemporary rehabilitation: we reactivate its role in medicine, we reveal its unconscious influence on our choices and feelings, we meditate on