Tag: Osmothèque

God’s perfume

Apr 15, 2020

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by

lauraspinney

in History, History of science or medicine, Journalism

IN THE EARLY 1990s, the then Mayor of Versailles, André Damien, discovered a folded paper in the drawer of an antique desk he had just bought at auction. When he opened the paper up, he saw that it had written on it a formula for what seemed to be a perfume, so he took it…