Aromatherapy and the Mind

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Dedication

To Alec

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After the Protestant reformation of 1517, the employment of aromatics and incense in Britain was again reduced by the Church – only the Roman Catholic Church, with its emphasis on the symbolic value of ritual, retained their use. Seventeenth-century spirituality further strengthened the contempt for the senses and the physical body. The founder of the Order of Redemptorists laid great stress on olfactory mortification:

As for the sense of smell, do not be so vain as to surround yourselves with amber perfumes and other sweet smelling compounds or to use toilet water, all of which have little to recommend them, even to the laity.17

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