Ire and Fury in Perfumes

Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel, 1868 When planning to write a piece on ire and fury in the context of perfumery, I was pondering something other than the emotions when dealing with a fellow subway commuter or a woman next to you in an elevator doused in some potent, sweet, and completely intolerable perfume, even though aficionados of cloying, stifling compositions who do not consider ot...