ABSTRACT
Concomitantly, many of the foul smells which infused the lives of the inhabitants of earlier periods in Western history have been eliminated from our modern First World consciousness. In effect, therefore, an olfactory gulf lies between our own deodorized modern life and the richly scented lives of our forbears.2 In what follows we will explore this lost world of scents in order to try and recapture, if only on paper, the essence of those earlier, more redolent, times.
