The olfactory sense the most potent to bring the past through the doorway of time into the present. We forget time is linear for us in the mundane when one inhalation makes it the year before, the season before, a night before, a sound and feeling before. In this same way we can set up trigger reactions for ourselves, booby traps with dividends, key important states of mind to certain perfumes and incenses, one of the infinite variety of the arts arcane. The whole field of aromatics brings rich dividends when used to deepen various states. But for today, Jasmine hanging rich as a cloud of white stars over the bedroom window brings yesteryear.
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