'Houses of Scents' in DelhiArticle
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The old surviving perfumery tradition of the country with its epicentre in the city of Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh, finds tangible expression in other major cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow and Hyderabad, in their in-built commercial spaces. This article looks primarily at the urban fabric of…
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A smell! A true Florentine smell! Every city, let me teach you, has its own smell.
E.M. Forster, A Room with a View (1908)
In a survey of historical studies of smell, Jonathan Reinarz refers to the 'rich melange of olfactory sensations' offered by cities and towns (first explored in Aroma: A…
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