Writers have always struggled to describe that crazy fragrance. William Thackeray gave it a shot: “Something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious – a hot drowsy smell that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them.” Diane Ackerman worked much the same territory in A Natural History of the Senses, comparing the scent of the truffle to “the muskiness of a rumpled bed after an afternoon of love in the tropics.”
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