Mobi Smells: A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times with FREE MOBI EDITION Download Now!

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Mobi Smells: A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times with FREE MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated?  We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad breath and other smells.  Living in a relatively odour-free environment has numbed us to the importance that smells have always had in human history and culture. In this major new book Robert Muchembled restores smell to its rightful place as one of our most important senses and examines the transformation of smells in the West from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 19th century.  He shows that in earlier centuries, the air in towns and cities was often saturated with nauseating emissions and dangerous pollution.  Having little choice but to see and smell faeces and urine on a daily basis, people showed little revulsion; until the 1620s, literature and poetry delighted in excreta which now disgust us. The smell of excrement and body odours were formative aspects of eroticism and sexuality, for the social elite and the popular classes alike.  At the same time, medicine explained outbreaks of plague by Satan's poisonous breath corrupting the air.  Amber, musk and civet came to be seen as vital bulwarks against the devil's breath: scents were worn like armour against the plague.  The disappearance of the plague after 1720 and the sharp decline in fear of the devil meant there was no longer any point in using perfumes to fight the forces of evil, paving the way for the olfactory revolution of the 18th century when softer, sweeter perfumes, often with floral and fruity scents, came into fashion, reflecting new norms of femininity and a gentler vision of nature.   This rich cultural history of an under-appreciated sense will be appeal to a wide readership.

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Mobi Smells: A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times with FREE MOBI EDITION!

Enough said, it takes you down into the dirt, muck,and mire of previous eras and makes me VERY happy to not have lived in the streets of Paris. However, it does make one think about the importance of scent in evolution, mate selection, and of course the over-emphasis in the US on UnScented (of which I am guilty when buying laundry products and lotions). The wide variety of smells considered 'attractive' is some evidence of our ability to change our collective minds on what "smells good" -- blown-out 1980's, clean-smell 1990's, gourmand 2000's...we keep finding ways to enjoy Scent -- an now more than ever are crossing sex and cultural lines in development and marketing. Worth a read if you're at all into candles, perfumes, or olfaction as a neurological/cognitive science.

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