Scent Seller

(image: Pietro Longhi, The Scent Seller, ca. 1741. Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice) When it comes to words and perfume, generally the words are devised around strictly hedonic terms, to “like” and to “not like”, and a rainbow of positive, market-driven descriptors. Is it possible to reconsider and add new dimensions to the seductive act of artifically…