Nose 01, For an olfactory culture

• Publisher: NEZ ÉDITIONS
• French language
• Publication date: 04/2016
• Number of pages: 144

Published twice a year, Nose explores the world around us through our sense of smell. It provides insight into the vital role that olfactory sensations play in our lives, in a fresh approach that encompasses art, literature, science, history, food and fragrance. Please note that Nez has been available in English since issue 3. The first two issues are only available in French.

In this number :

At first...

It has always had a bad reputation: it is accused of being an inferior, animal, primitive, instinctive, repressed, superfluous, underdeveloped, subjective sense, incapable of abstraction... However, smells, in turn sacred, therapeutic, aesthetic, play a special role in the history of man. Panorama of the scientific, psychological, historical, philosophical and cultural singularities of a little-known faculty... but which we are beginning to recognize at its true value. State of play.

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