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The Perfume Project: Journeys Through Indian Fragrance
Author: Divrina Dhingra
Publisher: Westland
Pages: 167
Price: Rs 599
In the jingle-jangle of the everyday, we often miss the fragrances that surround us. A typical day in an Indian household, for instance, begins with an array of such aromas, many of which take us down memory lane.
In the jingle-jangle of the everyday, we often miss the fragrances that surround us. A typical day in an Indian household, for instance, begins with an array of such aromas, many of which take us down memory lane.
This happenstance has a name: A Proustian moment, from Marcel Proust’s famous sentence from In Search of Lost Time: “It was the soupçon of cake in tea that sent his mind reeling.” Colleen Walsh notes this in an article titled “What the Nose Knows”. It’s attached to “a
