The musk and narcissus.. the sense of smell and social imagination

How was the process of removing the secret and disturbing odors, which made us humans beings creatures who cannot tolerate everything that might break the silent olfactory barrier of our environment? What are the stages of this profound anthropological change? What are the social stakes behind this change in forms of evaluation and symbolic systems? Lucien Febvre did not overlook the problem: where the history of olfactory inclusion falls between many paths he initiated. Since then, the paths of perception and taste have come into focus, the former stimulated by the discovery of the great dream contained and strengthened by its alliance with aesthetics, while the latter has hidden behind the desire for social analysis and daily life customs. In this field as well, the sense of smell suffered from the loss of its favored status, which fell victim to it, while an aggressive campaign against the olfactory density of the public space was outlined.