Odor

Grenouille: An Ordered Mind Amidst a Chaotic World Readers of Patrick Süskind’s Perfume generally interpret Grenouille as fundamentally separate from other humans, as, unlike other humans, Grenouille has no smell. As a genius antihero, Grenouille has no love for humanity, nor does humanity like Grenouille. Grenouille’s revulsion towards chaos and love for order initially alienate him from humanity, but ultimately these allow him to ascend beyond humanity. Because Grenouille does not fit with…

Inside a busy city there lays a large portrait, housed within a museum of modern art. To the untrained eye, there is nothing particularly extraordinary about it, but experts claim it is worth millions. All the while, in the outskirts of the city, a gorgeous, sprawling mural covers the side of an abandoned building, catching the attention of everyone who catches sight of it, yet it is labeled as vandalism, as mere graffiti. What is the role of art in our modern society, and what is the true…

The fresh smell of new books, the milky smell of babies, the moldy smell of old houses, the smell of newly-mown summer grass…When you perceive a new scent, your brain automatically links it with an environment, a occasion, a person, an object, or a moment; when the same scent come to you again, you would conjure up the bounded memory. Although there is no holding back the wheel of time, scent is always our super-power when it comes to memory. 'But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists,…

The Circles of Sexuality There are many different levels to be understood when it comes to sexuality, not only yours, but also your partner’s values, feelings, and attitudes towards sexuality. With so many different views towards sexuality, it is better to talk to your partner about how they feel on the subject without assuming you know. With learning about sexuality, intimacy, sexualization, sexual identity, and sexual health & reproduction, I feel more confident in knowing what I feel is…

Watching the short film and reading the story are completely different in their sequence of events, both have some similarities but mostly different. The story being the more confusing one because it starts explaining the ending to beginning as for the movie it shows you beginning to end which obviously makes it easier to understand the order. In both the story and the short film there are some similarities. Beginning with the short film, you see the end, Emily is dead at the morgue being…

Joining the Fight One well-placed mortar or bullet can change your future or end it altogether. I was looking forward to my first overseas deployment with nervous anticipation for months. Three months in Iraq, it was not an especially long deployment, but the unknown was turning my stomach into a tangle of weeds. What was it going to be like? I signed up for this job as a government contractor and these trips to new and potentially dangerous locales were going to be a normal part of my life…

Police dogs these days are getting hate because most people believe that the dogs are not reliable enough to find explosives and illegal substances. There are also people who had stated that the dogs give false alerts because the dogs want their handlers to find what their handlers are looking for and that machines are better. Some people will go and disagree with what had been stated such as the author. The people who disagree would state that dogs are very intelligent and are able to sniff out…

Introduction: When you first take a look at the maned wolf you notice it's similar look of it's face to a red fox but it's long legs are what make you take a second look. It kinda reminded me of that scene in Harry Potter and the Prizoner of azkaban ,when professor Lupin turned into that hideous werewolf ,with those freakishly long legs.Even though this species has the word”wolf” in it's name, and has a face of a fox , and the long legs like the ghazelle.It is in fact none of them. Genus…

dangled from the ceiling and clung to the walls. Decades of dust lay everywhere and the place reeked like mildew and sticky-sweet decay and something else . . . a shocking, heavy stench I remembered smelling before in a cave. Guano. The disgusting odor of bat dung. After we had explored every nook and cranny and found nothing except newspapers gathering in drifts, we moved on to what must have been an impressive parlor at one time.…

The Effect of Essential Oils on Physical and Emotional Well-Being I chose to look closely at Dr. Mercola’s article “Essential Oils Support Physical and Emotional Well-Being.” In this article, Dr. Mercola talks about the effect of essential oils and how they support physical and emotional well- being. Being that people smell things differently from one another, smells can have different meaning to different people. This article looks at Aromatherapy and how it allows us to capture the olfactory…