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Article: A woman who knows what the nose knows: A book that makes scents of the least understood organ.(Features)(Books)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 22, 2002
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Byline: Julie Finnin Day
ED: ALL 08/22/2002 -- Marcel Proust once wrote that perfume "is the last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all our tears have run dry, can make us cry again." He was no stranger to the evocative power of scent: the odor of a madeleine dipped in lime-blossom tea moved him to write "The Remembrance of Things Past."
And yet, as author Gabrielle Glaser proves, the nose is one of the least understood organs. Even though Americans spend $10 billion a year on smelling fresh, science is only beginning to take odor seriously as a subject worthy of research dollars.
Glaser aims to demystify this much maligned (and ...