LE FIGARO.
- Many philosophers make smell a minor, even primitive sense.
On the contrary, you say that something essential is at play ...
Fabrice HADJADJ.
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For us French, the verb to smell refers particularly to smell and generally to all the other senses.
You smell something, but you can also smell it through touch, taste, hearing or sight.
In other languages, the particular meaning which covers sensation in general is not the same.
For Italians,
sentire
refers to hearing.
For Germans,
fuhlen
refers to touch.
For the English,
to feel
does not call for any particular meaning, but links sensations to feelings.
In our language, the sense of the senses is smell.
When the Frenchman smells, he dilates his nostrils.
He is a man with flair.
The perfume capital of the world is located in the south of France.
This is because Grasse, in the Middle Ages, smelled particularly bad.
She specialized in tanning
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