It’s easy to imagine the terrible war that is waged between germs and housewives on Saturday mornings. The relentless pursuit of disinfection and purity. Any means is justified by this end: ‘kill germs even if they seem harmless’. For such a ‘noble’ task it is essential to transmit this knowledge from generation to generation, thus maintaining the established order and the outcome, the prize is that lovely smell clean we like so much. But, strangely enough, the clean smell is nothing but the absence of smell. When nothing is recognizable to our noses. Cristina Lucas