2023-05-21 16:12:14
Smell is an unloved sense. 244466310/Adiano – stock.adobe.com
Time.news – In his story In search of lost smellsFrançoise-Marie Santucci very accurately mixes her personal account and her scientific “discoveries”.
If we had to give up one of our five senses, this might be the one we’d sacrifice first: the smell is an unloved meaning. When Françoise-Marie Santucci is the victim, with her partner, of a banal car accident on a small Corsican road in 2018, it will take more than twenty-four hours to understand that she has lost her sense of smell. The pizza from the day before, the Corsican cheese from lunch, the powerful scents of the maquis: there is nothing left. Disbelief quickly gives way to anxiety, and an overflowing thirst for understanding. “As if, by discovering the secrets of olfaction one by one, I was operating a magic trick (in which I was the only one to believe): my sense of smell cannot really have disappeared since I know how it works”she writes in the preamble to what could be described as an intimate investigation.
Former editor-in-chief of Nextthe cultural magazine of Releasethen managing editor of Ellepassionate about oenology, perfumery and…
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