Neil Young:
"A Man Needs A Maid"
...
I was thinking that
maybe I'd get a maid
Find a place nearby
for her to stay.
Just someone
to keep my house clean,
Fix my meals and go away.
..."
Only for "to keep my house clean, Fix my meals and go away."? Not necessarily.
Recently a high profile Hindi film actor has been accused of a brutal rape of his maid.
I am reminded of a scene from Marathi film "Simhasan सिंहासन" (1980):
An elderly man douses his maid (played by Sushma Tendulkar सुषमा तेंडुलकर ) with perfume before sleeping with her. At the end of the act, he calls her a prostitute and 'pays' her with a used saree of his wife.
Dousing with perfume!
On the other hand, Napoleon sent word from the thick of battle to Josephine that she should abstain from washing now that his return was nigh.
R K Narayan:
"I smelt my wife's letter before opening it. It carried with it the fragrance of her trunk, in which she always kept her stationery- a mild jasmine smell surrounded her and all her possessions ever since I had known her."
("The English Teacher", 1946)
In "The Simpsons" episode (Production code: CABF05 Original Airdate on FOX: 14-Jan-2001), a prisoner asks Marge Simpson: "Can I smell your dress?"
बा. सी. मर्ढेकर (B S Mardhekar):
दवांत आलिस भल्या पहाटीं
अभ्रांच्या शोभेंत एकदां;
जवळुनि गेलिस पेरित अपुल्या
मंद पावलांमधल्या गंधा.
(# 25, "मर्ढेकरांची कविता", "Mardhekar's Poetry", 1959)
Forgive my translation:
"You came in early morning dew
decked up like clouds once;
went past me planting
fragrance of your tender steps."