Words for Odours Quotes

“In the humanities and social sciences, any research on odours comes up against four preconceived notions, all the more robust as they are considered interdependent: that Homo sapiens is, from a functional perspective, a microsmatic species; that we make little use of our sense of smell, considered the lowliest of the senses; that the consequence of this is that we live in societies evolving towards “olfactory silence”, and, lastly, that a defining characteristic of natural language on odours is its paucity." - Foreword by JOËL CANDAU”
― Melissa Barkat-Defradas, Words for Odours: Language Skills and Cultural Insights