Musical accompaniment: Si Tu N’Etais Pas Là performed by Fréhel.

This beautiful picture was made in the early 1900s by photographer Frank Eugene. He called it Four Sisters.

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The girls remind me a bit of the Romanovs.

The Romanovs (Tsar, Tsarevich, and Grand Duchesses) with Cossack soldiers in late 1916

Everything about these photographs seems so ethereal and otherworldly.

Do you ever hear a sound that triggers another sense?  Whenever I hear this song, I smell a particular perfume (Nanette Lepore). I have no idea what caused this association, but it’s not that unusual. There’s a term for it: synesthesia. It isn’t always sound and scent. It could be taste and color,, or touch and sound, or any combination of senses.