Perfume has helped people to pray, to heal, to make love and war, to prepare for death, to create. Timeless and universal, scent has been a powerful force in ritual, medicine, myth, and conquest. From earliest times, people have taken pleasure in rubbing fragrant substances into their skin. Charles Baudelaire, “The Flask” 1 P ERFUME-the heady and elusive marriage of the essences of herbs and spices, wild grasses and flowers, bark and animal and tree-is an engine of the universe. A thousand slumbering thoughts, dismal chrysalids Within the shadows trembling like new butterflies, Which set themselves to fly, as crumpled wings unfold In tints of azure, frosts of rose, and flakes of gold. Introduction One finds an ancient flask, and from its spout A spirit, now restored and much alive, pours out.
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