"Bjørn Berge offers us a treasure trove of insight and reflection. The text sharpens your senses and makes you appreciate the endless variety the world has to offer, which powerful forces are recklessly striving to flatten, homogenize, and standardize." - Dagbladet "A literary treasure trove on the subject of smell, this book explores the sense of smell with a broad perspective . . . We learn how security, ruin, bliss, fear, longing and lust can smell and even nothingness has a scent." - Gerfried Pongratz, Spektrum der Wissenschaft "In his remarkable book Berge begins with a silent revolt: against the primacy of the visual, against the neglect of the atmospheric, against a world that limits itself to talking and showing. [ This book is] a philosophy of the atmospheric. An attention to that which does not shout, yet endures." - Fairewirtschaft.de (Fair Market Economy) "Berge invites us across a threshold most of us have forgotten how to cross into a world alive with scent. Here, blood speaks in metallic whispers and stone exhales its ancient mineral breath. In an age that sanitizes and distances, this poignant book amounts to a radical act of reclamation." - Anahita Mekanik, Scent Designer and Co-Founder of ScenTronix
