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„A young, serious Japanese perfumer told me that Marilyn Monroe's famous comment about wearing nothing more than Chanel No. 5 to bed shocked the Japanese not only because it meant she was sleeping naked but also because she suggested that perfume was something you wore on your person. […] Scent on your skin? Bodily pollution, my Japanese friends called it. What is more, the great majority of Japanese have barely any body odor. There was a time when Japanese men who had it were reportedly kept out of the military as bodily smell ran contrary to this Buddhist idea of purity.” (Chandler Burr)
Un articol semnat de Chandler Burr, autorul cărții The Emperor of Scent, în The New York Times Magazine, despre cultura japoneză a parfumurilor și a mirosurilor.
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