When it comes to experience, if one studies Kama Sutra, the sex gets better with age.) It introduces a new type of energy to the body, which if properly channeled, can be quite spiritually cleansing.Īnd it tricks your body into remaining at peak sexual age. It removes time from the equation, if only for a moment.

One in particular, Kudra, joins him for the long haul.Īnd that’s important, because one key to immortality, is: 1.

Alobar fakes his death and embarks on a quest for immortality.Ĭhristians, shamans, monks, the fading god Pan, and the mischievous bandaloop all leave their mark– as do the women in Alobar’s life. His people kill their king as soon as he shows any sign of aging so that his soul will travel into the new vibrant and youthful king. It shifts from their story to that of Alobar, starting when he was a bohemian king in the ninth or tenth century. Jitterbug Perfume follows a group of modern perfumers all angling for the perfect scent. Perhaps the old gods’ old stomping ground infused–I was hooked. Then I picked it back up by the side of a pool in the mountains of the Italian countryside. I read 13 pages of this book and forgot about it for a couple of months. He simply mixes the vapors and lets it waft pleasantly by your nostrils. He does not insist on conveying the philosophy of immortality. Tom Robbins’ 1984 novel Jitterbug Perfume is a philosophical text disguised as fiction. And it drove the half-goat god Pan half-mad for masking his musk of rut. It opened up the floral consciousness of all who smelled it. That is the perfume which anchored Alobar and Kudra to the physical realm. If I had the technology, I would have opened this post with a bouquet of jasmine, a hint of citron, and an underlying base note–barely detectable mind you–of beet pollen. Scratch and sniff books have been lost to the advances of modern technology.Īs far as I know, no electronic wonder has yet to replace them.

Bandaloop jitterbug perfume