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The scent found in theaters and cafes

2021-02-24T08:55:16.839Z


DECRYPTION - While the atmosphere of places of culture and conviviality is sorely missed by the French, the noses recreate the scent through fragrances and candles, real Proust madeleines.


Remember.

The sweet aromas of popcorn that reign in the movie theater.

The powdery scent of the red velvet of theater chairs.

The pungent smell of smoke during football matches.

The aroma of fried food from the local bistro or the metallic notes of the metro tracks.

The scents, always cacophonous, of the workplace between the intrusive smell of the colleague and the hints of bad coffee taken from the machine every morning ... “

The smells that we miss terribly at the moment are those of conviviality, of interaction, human mixing… The smell of noise

, summarizes Thomas Fontaine, president of the Osmothèque, the international conservatory of perfumes located in Versailles.

These everyday smells, a priori harmless, have returned to our memories to become today, when we are deprived of them, our little Proust madeleines

. "

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Source: lefigaro

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