The scent of benzoin
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Tudo isto respirava um suave aroma de beijoim que se tinha impregnado em todos os objectos como o seu perfume natural, como a atmosphera da fada que habitava esse paraiso.
All this breathed a soft scent of benzoin, which had steeped into all the objects like their natural perfume, like the atmosphere of the fairy who dwelt in this paradise.
Everything breathed a soft scent of benzoin, steeped into every object like its natural perfume — the very air of the fairy who dwelt in this paradise.
Scent finishes the portrait the eye began: benzoin soaked into everything, the invisible signature of the room's absent occupant. Alencar names her a fairy and her room a paradise, lifting Cecilia into the register of legend before she has even appeared.
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