The scent is a story, a sense that fades away

Author's name: Bjorn Bergheidar Publisher: Afaq for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2026 Literary classification: Humanities Book overview: In a world dominated by sight and controlled by images, humans forget that the sense of smell was once the key to survival, an indelible memory, and a bridge connecting the senses with emotion, memory, and identity. This book is a captivating journey through history, culture, and science, in which author Bjorn Bergheidar recovers the forgotten status of the sense of smell, revealing the role of scents in shaping our awareness of the world, from the smell of rain-soaked earth, to the aroma of fresh bread, passing through childhood memories and the rituals of love, fear, and death. With a style that combines meticulous research and literary sensibility, the author takes us from peasant huts in the Middle Ages to industrial-era factories, from modern chemistry laboratories to daily life immersed in the aroma of coffee or city smoke. It is a book that reminds us that scents are not just marginal details, but a secret language of memory, body, and society, hiding within layers stories of power, social classes, nostalgia, and disappearance. Not just a book about scents, but an invitation to listen to the most subtle and influential sense in our lives. It will make the reader rediscover themselves and the world around them, with deeper intuition and heightened sensitivity.