Civilization and Deodorization? Smell in Early Modern English Culture

Jenner, Mark S. R.

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“…Moving forward in time, Corbin (1986) has also highlighted the deodorization of everyday life that occurred in France during the 18th century (see also Payer, 1997;Jenner, 2000Jenner, , 2011Jütte, 2005, pp. 207-211;el-Khoury, 2006;Cockayne, 2007;Chiang, 2008, for a description of the similar changes that were taking place elsewhere in Europe and North America).…”

Section: Eliminating Malodormentioning

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Using Ambient Scent to Enhance Well-Being in the Multisensory Built Environment

Spence

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The majority of the world's population now lives an urban existence, spending as much as 95% of their lives indoors. The olfactory atmosphere in the built environment has been shown to exert a profound, if often unrecognized, influence over our mood and well-being. While the traditionally malodorous stench to be found indoors (i.e., prior to the invention of modern sanitation) has largely been eliminated in recent centuries, many of the outbreaks of sick-building syndrome that have been reported over the last half century have been linked to the presence of a strange smell in the environment. At the same time, however, there is also growing evidence that consumer behavior can be manipulated by the presence of pleasant ambient odors, while various aromatherapy scents are said to improve our mood and well-being. This Anglophone review focuses primarily on indoor western urban developed spaces. Importantly, the olfactory ambience constitutes but one component of the multisensory atmosphere and ambient odors interact with the visual, auditory, and haptic aspects of the built environment. Surprisingly, the majority of published studies that have deliberately chosen to combine ambient scent with other sensory interventions, such as, for example, music, have failed to increase store sales, or to enhance people's mood and/or well-being, as might have been expected. Such negative findings therefore stress the importance of considering multisensory congruency while, at the same time, also highlighting the potential dangers that may be associated with sensory overload when thinking about the effect of ambient smell on our well-being.

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Section: Eliminating Malodormentioning

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Using Ambient Scent to Enhance Well-Being in the Multisensory Built Environment

Spence

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Contemporary neuro-gastronomy has demonstrated the fundamental role, in association with taste, of both orthonasal and especially retronasal odorant identification in the inhalation and exhalation phases (see Shepherd 2012). 13 See Largey andWatson (1972, 1021-24), Corbin (1986), and Jenner (2000). 14 On the anthropological perspective on self-representation, among numerous essays, see Müller et al (2013), Lock (1993, 133-55), Kilp (2001, 197-222), Classen (1992, 133-66), and Schlicht et al (2009, 687-709).…”

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Olfaction and Other Senses in Chinese Culture: A Comparative Analysis, with Special Attention to the Use of the Term Xiang

Santangelo¹

2019

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The article analyses information on religious elements in the representation of senses in literary sources of late imperial China. The Introduction presents psychological and social functions of olfaction with reference to China. The second part deals with the concepts of *xiang*, especially in the meaning of incense, but also the supernatural and symbolic aromas and the pollutant load of its antonym *chou*. The third part offers a survey of other bodily sensations in relation to religion.

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“…Furthermore, in making the smells and emotions central to understanding wider social issues, such as configurations of aesthetics, cultural production, and social differentiation, this study challenges the concept of "lifestyles" itself (Chaney 1996, p. 101): I shift the focus from the management of visual cues to odours. I also maintain that the concept of "deodorisation" (Jenner 2000(Jenner , 2011 needs to be reconsidered. The concept of deodorisation draws on the cultural history of the Western world, in which sanitation has been attached to the belief in civility and civilisation.…”

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The fragrance of belonging in Russian Beringia

Panáková¹

2020

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The aim of this study is to explore how the smells associated with particular emotions encode the feeling of belonging in Russian Beringia. The differing olfactory patterns are conceptualised within the broad socio-political processes of Soviet and post-Soviet modernisation. The odours, the mental representations of the odorous stimuli, are considered socially constructed. Following David Howes (2002) and Constance Classen et al. (1994), it is assumed that the cultural politics of olfaction intensify under the changing social regimes. The study further draws on David Chaney’s concept of lifestyle (1996) that proves to be helpful in enhancing the investigation of the interrelation between social differentiation and aesthetic patterns in the context of the Soviet mission civilisatrice. In the analysis of the impact of the Soviet (and post-Soviet) policies on the native olfactory practices, the study shifts the focus from deodorisation (a concept that refers to elimination of those odours that colonizing western discourse finds socially unacceptable) towards sanitation (process in which cleanliness as a synecdoche for civility may lead to, but not necessarily does, a repudiation of certain odours). It demonstrates that the realms where the senses, aesthetic, and social hierarchies overlap have a wide spectrum of cultural forms, often unintended from the point of view of the Soviet or post-Soviet policy makers.

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Civilization and Deodorization? Smell in Early Modern English Culture

Cited by 60 publications

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Using Ambient Scent to Enhance Well-Being in the Multisensory Built Environment

Using Ambient Scent to Enhance Well-Being in the Multisensory Built Environment

Olfaction and Other Senses in Chinese Culture: A Comparative Analysis, with Special Attention to the Use of the Term Xiang

The fragrance of belonging in Russian Beringia

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