Close your eyes, let your imagination run wild, and smell fragrances as natural as cinnamon, violet, myrrh, or lemon, but also smell the nauseating liquid secretion of the civet (a small African animal), with which, according to legend, King Solomon perfumed himself, is the only challenge that the visitor must accept to enter the fascinating world of smells, synthesized in the exhibition of the Obra Social La Caixa, "By the nose. Essences and natural fragrances".
The exhibition was inaugurated this Wednesday by the mayor of Tías, José Juan Cruz, the business area director of La Caixa in Lanzarote, Antonio Armas, and the curator of the exhibition, María Dolores Ruiz.
"By the nose" is an approach to the world of smells from the perspective of biology, culture, and the direct experience of smelling. The exhibition offers its visitors the possibility of developing, through the more than 50 aromas on display, the great forgotten of the five senses: the sense of smell, the sense, on the other hand, with the greatest capacity to evoke distant memories, since its interrelation with the brain circuits of memory is really intimate.
The exhibition can be visited until June 8, 2011, at the "El Fondeadero" Civic Center in Puerto del Carmen, from Monday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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