Binet maintains that these articles play the part of the "fetich" in early theology.

It is said that the favors given by the ladies to the knights in the Middle Ages were not only tokens of remembrance and appreciation, but sexual excitants as well.

In his remarkable "Osphresiologie," Cloquet calls attention to the sexual pleasure excited by the odors of flowers, and tells how Richelieu excited his sexual functions by living in an atmosphere loaded with these perfumes.

In the Orient the harems are perfumed with intense extracts and flowers, in accordance with the strong belief in the aphrodisiac effect of odors.
Krafft-Ebing quotes several interesting cases in which the connection between the olfactory and sexual functions is strikingly verified.
"The case of Henry III shows that contact with a person's perspiration may be the exciting cause of passionate love.

At the betrothal feast of the King of Navarre and Margaret of Valois he accidentally dried his face with a garment of Maria of Cleves which was moist with her perspiration.