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"Olfaction" as a book category centers on scent—its science, cultural meanings, emotional power and narrative possibilities—and includes fiction and nonfiction that foreground smell as theme, device or subject. Books in this category range from memoirs and literary novels that use smells to evoke memory, identity and atmosphere, to investigative works on the perfume industry, guides to perfumery and scent design, and popular science on how the nose and brain create smell perception. Expect lush sensory description, explorations of synesthesia and embodiment, histories and ethnographies of scent practices, and plotlines driven by scent-based clues or environments; the category appeals to readers interested in sensory writing, culinary and fragrance worlds, psychology and cultural studies, and anyone curious about how scent shapes experience.

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