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Roc Morin

DARK SECRETS: Is this what love smells like | Rare Historical Photos

Old perfume bottles on a shelf at the Gulab Singh Johrimal perfume store on November 24, 2015 in Old Delhi, India Arkaprava Ghosh/Future Publishing via Getty Images

A woman leaves a room, and her perfume lingers. She is gone, but something of her presence remains. The woman, perfumer Mandy Aftel, has slipped into another wing of her home in search of a relic. 

Scents are like souls, Marcel Proust wrote. They endure death and destruction, "remembering, waiting, hoping..."

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