Duftmeisterin der Börse & Geruchszensorin (Perfumer of Easements – the exchange's official scent-mistress, who blends the perfumes the Wohlstandsgürtel sprays over its squares so that the pneumatic speech of the poor reaches no wealthy nose, and who sells 'olfactory easements' on the trading floor) · female
Ottilie Wohlgeruch is tall, narrow and upright in the way of a bottle that has been corked too long. She wears high-collared silk coats in the colour of dried lavender, buttoned to the chin, and at her throat on a fine chain hangs a brass atomiser she touches when she lies. Her dark hair is pulled back so hard into a low knot that it seems to hold her face in place; the knot is pinned with a glass pipette. Her fingertips are faintly yellow from forty years of essences, and she keeps them gloved ...
From the simulation Flatulence as Logos: The Pneumatic Language of the Disenfranchised.