Scents and sensuality - matching wines to perfume

It’s a sensory truth universally acknowledged that our sense of smell is closely connected by a series of neural pathways to that section of our brain that holds and processes memories.  When experiencing wine we rarely give ourselves full license to explore the emotional and intuitive nuances of what we smell and taste, as we are too busy analysing the “mechanics of flavour”, deconstructing all the aromatic properties– in a reductive fashion, as it were.

Posted by Doug on 27-Jun-2008. Click here to read the full article

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