What was that sacred and terrible smell?

SpoilerSacred and Terrible Air / Püha ja õudne lõhn

I'm gonna keep this short. Both book and game confirms that apricots come from the Samaran republic. I think the reason why harry gets sad because of the apricot smell is because it smells like comunism and comunism smells like failure. The apricot smell is the smell of girl child revolution. Was that the smell that Saint Miro was talking about?. When harry remembers his life with Dora he describes that "Smelled like Raspberry", not Apricots. But in his dream with Dora as Dolores Dei he describes the smell of apricots again. In "Cleaning out the rooms" Harry sems to be waiting at a female person. It is implied that he is not waiting for Dora but for "Girl child revolution" (The deserter is waiting for the same). In the novel Jesper takes Anni's perfume "Pomegranate 1". He gets lost in the color of the bottle and time seems to freeze (Like a Shivers skillcheck). Then he reveals that the name of the brand is "Revacholiere" and smells likes juniper berries (At least partially). My theory is that the spirit of the world is the sacred and terrible smell (La Revacholiere says the she is a fragment of the world spirit. A spirit different from the spirit of history of the innocences). Doesn"t smell like apricots nor raspberrys. And Saint Miro was the "only one asking what that smell was" because he is a nihilist that wants to destroy that smell. Is the smell of the world.

Posted Sep 14, 2026, 7:57 PM UTC

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