The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
il disséquait la beauté dans ce petit laboratoire qu’était sa chambre, parmi les odeurs de cuisine et le tohu-bohu de la tribu des Silva, et, maîtrisant l’anatomie de la beauté, il était plus à même d’en créer. Il était ainsi fait qu’il ne pouvait œuvrer sans comprendre. Il lui était impossible de travailler à l’aveuglette, dans le noir, en ignoran
... See morePhilippe Jaworski • Martin Eden (édition enrichie) (French Edition)
We spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins. We snatch our freeze-frame of life from the simultaneity of existence holding on to the illusions of permanence, congruence, and linearity; of static selves and lives that unfold in sensical narratives. All the while, we mistake chance for choice, our labels and mod... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
Smell’s radical specificity is part of what connects it so particularly to memory; it’s also part of why imitation is so difficult, even when it comes to artificial odors.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
So she’s hiding her diary inside Proust, and he’s hiding his diary by writing in French. Secret French diaries seem to run in the family.”