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Middle-class women in these novels usually declare their suitability as mates, not by exuding any odor themselves, but by being associated with the explicitly perceived fragrances of flowers.
Rather than increase authenticity as the author probably had hoped, his use of the language and drift of contemporary sources unmistakably exudes complete detachment from current scholarly interpretation.
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