TYPICAL AROMAS OF PLANETS. 
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official science take up this theme of passional nomenclature whero 
I have left it off, let it conduct the subject fairly through to the 
end as is its function and its duty, and I shall be pleased and proud 
of having contributed to draw it out of the false path, to restore 
it to the true. 
If, nevertheless, the imagination of my fair reader, over-excited 
by this title of passional nomenclature, require some examples of 
the application of the new piocess of classification, and cannot 
await the inventory of the zoological apparatus of France, I must 
fly to meet her desires, happ)^ to find this agreeable occasion of 
showing at one stroke the simplicity of the analogical method, and 
the absurdity of all others. 
The typical aromas of planets are known, I am aware, but not 
however so thoroughly that the nari’ator, recalling them, can be 
reproached with repetitions and commonplace. I shall briefly 
mention a few for example. Saturn, cardinal of ambition, has for 
typical aromas, those of the tulip and lily, or to use the most sim- 
ple language of analogy, Saturn perfumes with the tulip and lily, 
with the tulip in simple, with the lily in composite. The simple 
aroma is that which belongs only to the planet, the composite re- 
sults from the combination of the simple aroma with that of one 
or several other planets. 
Herschel, whom I should prefer to call Eros or Aphrodite, per- 
fumes with the iris in simple, with the tube-rose in the composite ; 
Jupiter, with jonquil in simple, narcissus in composite ; the Sun, gen- 
eral focus of the aromas of the vortex, who can have no simple aro- 
mas but in the manner of white in its relation to colors, perfumes 
with orange and with the musk-scented grape. 
If the power of smell were developed in man to the same de- 
gree as that of hearing, the mere scent of a plant or of a metal 
would suffice to teach him the origin of it with all that appertains 
to it. 
Every planet sheds in space a perfume, a tone, a light, whose 
series and accords form as many sweet melodies or harmonies. 
God is an immense artist, but He invites to His concerts only the 
great geniuses of humanity. Kepler has given the gamut of the 
planets. 
