Can a New Perfume Rekindle Eroticism? A Proposition for 2022

Last week, nested in a gray winter apartment as half my Instagram feed collectively convalesced, I found myself charmed by Harold McGee. Back in December of 2020, the wizard science writer appeared on the video podcast Modern Wisdom to talk about his latest book, Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells. McGee, beamed in from his home in San Francisco, had the look of a kindly sage, with a close-cropped gray beard and white AirPods. He delighted in strange phenomena, be it John Waters’s Odorama scratch-and-sniff cards for the 1981 film Polyester (embedded with whiffs of skunk and… Read Full Article