In Sensorium by Tanaïs5/25/2023 Moving on to the “heart notes,” Tanaïs ruminates on surviving sexual violence and reclaiming joy through embracing their erotic and feminine sides. They begin their “base” by recounting the alienation they felt as the child of immigrants growing up in America in the 1980s and reflecting on a similar erasure of their ancestors by India’s colonization and caste system. “Whereas a body cannot escape circumstance,” Tanaïs writes, “a perfume allows us to, if only for a moment.” Using the notes of a perfume-from the base to the heart to the head notes-as a framework to meditate on exile and liberation, Tanaïs contends with their roots as an American Bangladeshi Muslim femme. Novelist and perfumer Tanaïs ( Bright Lines) blends in this beautiful work memoir, history, and notes on perfuming to interrogate love, violence, and generational healing.
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