Where to begin in Smell Studies

A list of foundational texts in the field of Smell Studies

Barwich, A. S. Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind. First Harvard University Press paperback edition, Harvard University Press, 2022.

Classen, Constance, et al. Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell. Routledge, 1994.

Corbin, Alain. The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination. Picador, 1994.

Drobnick, Jim, editor. The Smell Culture Reader. English ed, Berg, 2006.

Friedman, Emily C. Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Bucknell University Press ; Copublished with Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Henshaw, Victoria, editor. Designing with Smell: Practices, Techniques and Challenges. Routledge, 2018.

Herz, Rachel, editor. The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell. Harper Perennial, 2008.

Howes, David, and Constance Classen. Ways of Sensing: Understanding the Senses in Society. Routledge, 2014.

Keller, Andreas, and Benjamin D. Young, editors. Theoretical Perspectives on Smell. ROUTLEDGE, 2023.

KETTLER, ANDREW. SMELL OF SLAVERY: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World. CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2022.

Muchembled, Robert, and Susan Pickford. Smells: A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times. English Edition, Polity, 2020.

Reinarz, Jonathan. Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell. University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Rindisbacher, Hans J. The Smell of Books: A Cultural-Historical Study of Olfactory Perception in Literature. University of Michigan Press, 1992.

Stewart, Jude. Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell. Penguin, 2021.

Tullett, William. Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: A Social Sense. First edition, Oxford University Press, 2019.