Scents are the quietest yet most persuasive seducers. They awaken memory, attract or repel, and stir desire long before touch or speech. In erotic writing, smell becomes a secret language between bodies – one that creates atmosphere and intimacy without being seen.
This category explores how writers translate olfactory sensations into words: the scent of wet skin, a lover’s perfume, the mingling smells of fear and arousal. Essays, texts, and writing exercises reveal how smell can charge a scene with emotion and deepen its sensual dimension.
Eine Kleinstadt irgendwo an der Alaskanischen Riviera, Cicely mit Namen. Darin der Radio-DJ Chris Stevens, ein Künstlertyp, der Walt Whitman verehrt, C.G.Jung rezitiert und in seiner Freizeit aus Abfällen Kunstwerke zusammenschweißt. Einmal im Jahr wird er für die Frauen der Stadt einfach unwiderstehlich. Chris selbst weiß nicht, warum. Aber er nimmt es hin. Immerhin ist … Continue reading Magische Düfte
“The first thing I notice is the smell: of leather, wood, polish with a slight citrus scent.” E.L.James: Fifty shades of gray It takes E L James a page to describe Christian Grey’s “chamber of torments” before she moves forward in the plot. She begins her decided description with the smell of the room. When … Continue reading To describe the smell of rooms
Her sweat smelled as fresh as sea wind, the tallow of her hair as sweet as nut oil, her sex like a bouquet of water lilies, her skin like apricot blossoms … and the combination of all these components resulted in a perfume so rich, so balanced, so magical, that everything Grenouille had smelled so … Continue reading Odors and their effects
