Many have written on the stunning way smell and by extension taste seem to circumnavigate our intellect to bring us face to face with the past, but few have written the phenomenon so eloquently and influentially as Marcel Proust. At Aromatica Poetica, we acknowledge this famous madeleine scene from the first book of A la Rechearche du Temps Perdu, translated variously as Remembrance of Things Past and In Search of Lost Time, as a foundational text. Here it is excerpted …