La Mort en Rose: Myroblysic perfume, Thérèse of Lisieux, and the blessed odor of sanctity

The bodies of saints, ecstatic death, and the ineffabile scent of incorruptibility.

I wrote about perfume and spirituality on this blog for the first time almost exactly a year ago. My concerns then were of scent’s relation to ritual, and the ways in which perfume presents a habit of being to my own life. Needless to say, not only have I lived with the perfumes I wrote about then more profoundly, but I have also made the smell of incen…