“Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. The odors for fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away. Helen Keller
MUSIC
Lynyrd Skynyrd – “That Smell”
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan from “Back to Qawwali”(Long Distance Records, Wagram Label, Montreuil, France)
Karrin Allyson, “You Don’t Know What Love Is” Karrin Allyson Ballads, Remembering John Coltrane Kampo Audio Studios, New York, NY
Eavan Orman Combo “Tango”
John Prine & Alice Dement “In Spite of Ourselves” from the album “In Spite of Ourselves” Principally recorded at Jack’s Tracks and MCA Publishing Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
Misia, from “Garras Dos Sentidos” Erato Discs, Paris France
Manu Chao, “King of the Bongo” from Mano Negra Conny’s Studio (1990-1991)
Bach, from Sonatas & Partitas; Itzhak Perlman EMI Classics
LITERATURE
Hafiz, “If the Scent of Her Hair” Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” Act II scene ii
Rikki Ducournet “Gazelle” Knopf, 2003; Vintage, 2004; Gallimard, French translation, 2007; Fanucci, Italian translation, 2003.
Christine Hemp “The Garden at Escazu”
Hafiz “Stop Being So Religious”
William Matchett “The Water Ouzel”
Diane Ackerman, “A Natural History of the Senses”