Rachel Herz's THE SCENT OF DESIRE in Detroit Free Press

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Detroit Free Press, December 9, 2007

Sweet and sexy, smells connect

You'll never take your nose for granted again once you've read "The Scent of Desire."

Rachel Herz explores what is considered our most mysterious sense, and the one often dismissed as the least important. But, as Herz points out, you don't know what you've got till it's gone. (People who have lost their sense of smell often become dangerously depressed.)

Herz examines the connection between taste and odor and the role smell plays in sexual attraction, as well as its power to evoke long-suppressed memories. But best are the weird facts. "Clean baby" is one of the very few smells every culture agrees is delightful.

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