34 BOOK OF THE SCENTED GARDEN 
table in medieval times. ‘If you can’t sit above the 
salt sit close to the spice-box” is an old proverb, z.e. in 
any case do the best you can. 
BLENDS, BouguETs, oR MixEp PERFUMES 
Bouquets, mélanges, or particular blends of perfume 
are easily made pretty much as a florist arranges flowers, 
or an artist his colours; but the late perfumer Dr S. 
Piesse pointed out that to make a proper bouquet of 
primitive odours the kinds so used should agree or 
correspond with a scale or gamut, just as do the musical 
notes. Dr Piesse goes so far as to say that one false 
note amongst odours will destroy the whole harmony of 
the chord, just as in music or in colour. His odophone, 
or scent scale, for chord of C, is as follows :— 
Santal is C bass, 2nd line below. 
Geranium is C bass, 2nd space. 
Acacia is E treble, Ist line. 
Orange flower is G treble, 2nd line. 
Camphor is C treble, 3rd space. 
ANOSMIC OR HypERosmMiIc PEOPLE 
We have often heard of people who are wholly or 
partially blind to colour; and there are also anosmic 
people, who have wholly or in part lost the sense of 
smell; and there are some people who possess a sharp 
sense of smell who nevertheless cannot detect some few 
particular odours. In contrast with the anosmic folks 
we find a set who are decidedly hyperosmic—they 
‘¢smell a rat” very quickly, and are often rabid about 
sewers and other sanitary matters. These acute-nosed 
people make excellent perfumers, and to their ranks 
belong the best and most successful buyers of such 
products as wine, tea, hops, drugs, perfumes, tobacco, 
coffee, and spices: they form their judgments through 
