June 18, 2012

Italo Calvino

Insanely beautiful word choreography. Here.

"When the olfactory alphabet, which made them so many words in a precious lexicon, is forgotten, perfumes will be left speechless, inarticulate, illegible."

What's so French about perfume?

My first article for My French Life is alive. Reflections on the links between the olfactory world and francophilia. You find it here.