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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:27:54 PM No.24544426
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What are some fragrant, olfactory books?
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:33:42 PM No.24544441
henry miller
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:35:44 PM No.24544448
anything talking about smells just feels incredibly vulgar to me
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:45:55 PM No.24544471
Perfume
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:48:33 PM No.24544479
>>24544426 (OP)
120 Days of Sodom
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 12:00:31 AM No.24544514
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Easily this one
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 12:07:37 AM No.24544530
>>24544514
That orange mouse floods my mind with surreal memories from my childhood whenever I see him.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 1:50:04 AM No.24544790
>>24544426 (OP)
edith wharton loves to mention flowers. here's a passage from The House of Mirth:
>"Seating herself on the upper step of the terrace, Lily leaned her head against the honeysuckles wreathing the balustrade. The fragrance of the late blossoms seemed an emanation of the tranquil scene, a landscape tutored to the last degree of rural elegance. In the foreground glowed the warm tints of the gardens. Beyond the lawn, with its pyramidal pale-gold maples and velvety firs, sloped pastures dotted with cattle; and through a long glade the river widened like a lake under the silver light of September. Lily did not want to join the circle about the tea-table. They represented the future she had chosen, and she was content with it, but in no haste to anticipate its joys. The certainty that she could marry Percy Gryce when she pleased had lifted a heavy load from her mind, and her money troubles were too recent for their removal not to leave a sense of relief which a less discerning intelligence might have taken for happiness. Her vulgar cares were at an end. She would be able to arrange her life as she pleased, to soar into that empyrean of security where creditors cannot penetrate. She would have smarter gowns than Judy Trenor, and far, far more jewels than Bertha Dorset. She would be free forever from the shifts, the expedients, the humiliations of the relatively poor. Instead of having to flatter, she would be flattered; instead of being grateful, she would receive thanks. There were old scores she could pay off as well as old benefits she could return. And she had no doubts as to the extent of her power. She knew that Mr. Gryce was of the small chary type most inaccessible to impulses and emotions. He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment. But Lily had known the species before: she was aware that such a guarded nature must find one huge outlet of egoism, and she determined to be to him what his Americana had hitherto been: the one possession in which he took sufficient pride to spend money on it. She knew that this generosity to self is one of the forms of meanness, and she resolved so to identify herself with her husband’s vanity that to gratify her wishes would be to him the most exquisite form of self-indulgence. The system might at first necessitate a resort to some of the very shifts and expedients from which she intended it should free her; but she felt sure that in a short time she would be able to play the game in her own way. How should she have distrusted her powers? Her beauty itself was not the mere ephemeral possession it might have been in the hands of inexperience: her skill in enhancing it, the care she took of it, the use she made of it, seemed to give it a kind of permanence. She felt she could trust it to carry her through to the end."