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Perfume: Articles of Interest #9

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The Importance of Our Sense of Smell

Our sense of smell has historically been the least respected of our senses, stemming from philosophers in the West who derided it. We have the capacity to smell things in the parts per billions, but we lack the capacity to talk about them. Learning to smell comes from learning how to describe smells.

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