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Oud and existentialism, memory and meaning through olfaction. One-Dimensional Man and agarwood, money and McDonald's.
Join The Doc for an intimate conversation with Ensar Oud, as they get personal and talk about the meaning of fine fragrance, what art is-and what it is not. What drives Ensar to do what he so passionately does? And more…
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TRANSCRIPT (Partial)
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Doc: It's a very powerful…it's like a time machine. It can just instantly take you back…
Ensar: Instantly transport you. So when you say when I smell it years later, I say no I like this. The thing that you're saying that you like is your life.
Doc: Yeah, so like if something has a really strong effect on you and it really makes you feel good even if you don't like the smell of it, I think if you come back to it later you'll probably like it. And…I see what you're saying. It reminds you of your past and you're just…
Ensar: The days that are no more. There's this Tennyson poem, you know, 'Soft as remembered kisses after death, gentle', like he lost a really good friend. Then he went into like this dirge mode, like singing these eulogies and he talks about the days that are no more is that, we are…he says, 'O' death in life, the days that are no more.' As the mind ponders and reflects on the times like when you were a teenager, or child or grown-up, or when you had your first crush or whatever. And that is like that…you can't take that back anymore. Except if you had a scent you were smelling during those times.
Doc: So what this…what it makes me think of, you know, the West where everything is so commoditized and cheap and artificial, MacDonald's and everything, food, the smells, perfumes. Everything is so artificial and stripped down of its intensity and complexity it used to have in the past. So I mean I would guess…you used to have…you take these peoples who are developing Alzheimer's, for example, it's a multi-factorial disease like 30-50 different causes and one of the things is that our lives might have come impoverished. Our experiences have become…
Ensar: There's nothing to remember.
Doc: The sense experiences have become quite impoverished.
Ensar: We've been stripped of our experience of life, and of nature, and our own feelings and it's like this packaged, this fast-food kind of existence. You just open of a can, and you consume and just go on and you call it a day.
Doc: Robotic:
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