Scentient Quotes- Inspirations (bien) senties

L'odorat est le sens de l'imagination

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"smell is the sense of imagination”

For my life is yet whole in me
and the spirit of God is in my nostrils

Job 27:2-4 (ASV)

In every breath
love comes calling
from every way

Rumi

Heresy to the heretic and religion to the orthodox
The rose petal belongs to the heart of the perfumer

Shaikh Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak 

I cannot write Damascus

without feeling the jasmines on my fingers

Nizar Qabbani

Suave et pur jasmin d'Espagne
Où se posa l'abeille d'or
Une grâce vous accompagne
Et vous possédez un trésor

Sweet and pure Spanish jasmine
Where the golden bee landed
A grace accompanies you
And you have a treasure

Théophile Gautier (1831-1872)
A l'impératrice

Rousseau J.J. In: Emile, ou l’éducation. Rousseau J.J., editor. J. Néaulme; La Haye: 1762. Livre second. L’âge de nature: de 2 à 12 ans, p. 250.

Rumi - Diwan & Shams, Ghazal 463, 1 : 269-27

Shaikh Abu'l-Fazl  is to be read through a mystical - sufi - lens: the perfume that rises from the rose petal is like the longing after God in the heart of the true seeker. The seeker is compared to the perfumer, who is, according to the author, beyond heresy and beyond orthodoxy.