Sensorium, Notes for My People
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Sensorium, Notes for My People blends memoir and musings on perfumery to examine how scent shapes identity, memory, and belonging for diasporic and queer communities.
Tanaïs reflects on ancestral smells, cultural vasanas, and the role of scent in reanimating transgenerational connections and desires.
The book links perfuming practices to emotional and embodied histories, offering both personal narrative and sensory theory.
By centering olfactory experience, Tanaïs challenges normative scent cultures and creates space for marginalized olfactory subjectivities.
The work is part memoir, part sensory manifesto, and contributes to broader conversations about race, desire, and the politics of scent.
Tanaïs reflects on ancestral smells, cultural vasanas, and the role of scent in reanimating transgenerational connections and desires.
The book links perfuming practices to emotional and embodied histories, offering both personal narrative and sensory theory.
By centering olfactory experience, Tanaïs challenges normative scent cultures and creates space for marginalized olfactory subjectivities.
The work is part memoir, part sensory manifesto, and contributes to broader conversations about race, desire, and the politics of scent.
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Hsuan L. Hsu
Hsuan L Hsu, "Olfactory Worldmaking" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Hsuan L. Hsu
Hsuan L Hsu, "Olfactory Worldmaking" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
