there are no eternal facts,

just as there are no absolute truths...The understanding does not draw its law from nature...it prescribes them to nature. Sense impressions naively supposed to be conditioned by the outer world are, on the contrary, conditioned by the inner world.

Randall Stevenson. Modernist Fiction: An Introduction

perfume

"Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it."

Patrick Süskind. Perfume. The Story of a Murderer.