Description
03 | The Sex of Scent
Issue: 03 Spring/Summer 2017
Publication Date: 11 May 2017
Language: English
Pages: 144 pgs
EAN: 9782370630575
Love Has a Nose
The close links between perfume, sex and seduction have been forged over a long period of time and are rooted in myths, beliefs, religion and medicine. Is perfume still gendered today and, if so, what olfactory form does this gendering take? What mechanisms guide our nostrils towards some people but not others, whether they’re wearing perfume or not? We delve into the subject of gender and olfactory attraction, through the prism of history, marketing, anthropology, sociology and biology.