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or violet-scentlotions gloves and other fineries Elizabeth I of England who reigned from 1558 to 1603 adored gloves scented with ambergris and she not only wore perfumed cloaks she required that her courtiers be heavily scented too so that they might waft sweetly around her when they moved She was particularly fond of Sir Walter Raleigh so I presume she approved of the strawberry cologne he liked to wear Elizabeth kept her pets doused in scent and she wore a pomander—an apple rolled in cinnamon and dressed in cloves—to ward off the plague Many writers have written exquisitely about smells and how they trigger flights ed of comprehensive remembrance Throughout his adult life Charles Dickens claimed that a mere whiff of the type of paste used to fasten labels to bottles would bring back with unbearable force all the anguish of his earliest years when bankruptcy had driven his father to abandon him in a hellish workhouse where they made such bottles In the 10th century in Japan a glitteringly talented member of the court Lady Murasald Shikibu wrote the first real novel The Tale of Genji a love story woven into a vast historical and social tapestry the cast of who which includes perfumer-alchemist- s concoct scents based on an individual's aura and destiny The most poem of all time "The Song of Solomon" weaves a luscious love story around perfumes and unguents In the story's arid lands where water was rare people perfumed themselves often and well and this betrothed couple whose marriage day approaches in the meantime converse amorously in poetry sweetly dueling with compliments lavish and ingenious He tells her that on their wedding night he will enter her garden and he catalogs all of the fruits and spices he knows he'll find there: frankincense myrrh saffron camphire pomegranates aloe cinnamon calamus and other treasures So stirred is she by this loving tribute and so wild with desire that she replies: "Awake 0 north wind! and come thou south blow upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out Let my beloved come into his garden and eat his pleasant fruits" scent-drench- ed From the book "A Natural History of the Senses" by Diane Ackerman Copyright c 1990 by Diane Ackerman Published by Random House Inc EZKUNIMownomillAZ PAGE 10 JUNE 10 1990 PARADE MAGAZINE |