Re: Words for smells
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 9, 2005, 20:20 |
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Das Parfum is one of my favorite books! Not only is it a page turner, and a
bizarre fantasy, it is hilariously gross.
Sally
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carsten Becker" <naranoieati@...>
> On Friday 08 April 2005 10:53 CEST, B. Garcia wrote:
>
> > On Apr 7, 2005 10:46 PM, Geoff Horswood
> <geoffhorswood@hotmail.com <mailto:geoffhorswood@...>> wrote:
> >
> > Metallic - I know that copper coins (or at least American
> > coinage) can have this distinct smell. You could break it
> > further into smells like "rust"
>
> Not only American coinage and not only copper coins. I hate
> this rusty smell. Even soap does not always help.
>
> > Just a few ideas :)
>
> Not language related, but smell related (might be
> interesting to read for you, Geoff): Do you know Patrick
> Süskind's "Das Parfum" (The Perfume)? The story takes place
> in France during the reign of Louis XIV. The protagonist,
> Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a bastard, born by a market woman,
> has no own body odour, but can smell a thousand times better
> than ordinary people -- he is a genius in a way, but his
> character is absolutely absurd, he is totally crazy and very
> cruel. Grenouille's master plan is to brew a truely vicious
> perfume made from the body odour of 24 (26?) virgins that
> makes people love him although he's the personified evil.
> I found this book quite entertaining, but since we had to
> read it in class two years ago, many people didn't like it.
They're crazy. It's brilliant.
S.