What Is and Could Become Olfactory Aesthetics?

Mădălina Diaconu

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Introduction into a thematic symposium on Olfactory Aesthetics published in ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics (Vol. 13 No 1, 2024).

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Olfactory; Aesthetics; Introduction

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