An analogous instance is related of
Henry IV, whose passion for the beautiful Gabrielle is said to
have originated at the instant when, at a ball, he wiped his brow
with her handkerchief."
Krafft-Ebing also says that "one learns from reading the work of
Ploss ('Das Weib') that attempts to attract a person of the
opposite sex by means of the perspiration may be discerned in
many forms in popular psychology. In reference to this a custom
is remarkable which holds among the natives of the Philippine
Islands when they become engaged. When it becomes necessary for
the engaged pair to separate they exchange articles of wearing
apparel, by means of which each becomes assured of faithfulness.
These objects are carefully preserved, covered with kisses, and
smelled."
The love of perfumes by libertines and prostitutes, as well as
sensual women of the higher classes, is quite marked. Heschl
reported a case of a man of forty-five in whom absence of the
olfactory sense was associated with imperfect development of the
genitals; it is also well known that olfactory hallucinations are
frequently associated with psychoses of an erotic type.
Garnier has recently collected a number of observations of
fetichism, in which he mentions individuals who have taken sexual
satisfaction from the odors of shoes, night-dresses, bonnets,
drawers, menstrual napkins, and other objects of the female
toilet.
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