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Jul 22
2011
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The olfactory dimension of Duchamp’s ‘Belle Haleine’Posted by Caro Verbeek in smell , perfumer , perfume , odor , Natural Ingredients , fragrance , essence , contemporary art , aroma |
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‘Let’s put it like this: if a woman smelled like this, I wouldn’t find her attractive, it reminds me of my grandmother bosom’, was what Frank Reijnders said about the liquid in the bottle I presented him with in the Stedelijk Museum on the event of his academic retirement this year. Not exactly the reaction one would expect after giving someone a gift as romantic as a perfume. But this was no ordinary perfume, and no ordinary situation either.
