Maybe someone can help me with this
Around 2001 or 2002 I read a book. I'm not sure if it was considered sci-fi or fantasy, but it took place in a world were the clergy ruled with a heavy hand. Every night a "scent" would arise from the forest and drive men insane and (according to the priests) to their damnation. It was the duty of women to tie up their men and plug their nostrils each night to protect them from the effects of the odor.
I can't remember the name or the title, but the title may have had the word "beauty" in it.
It was kind of a strange work with some twisted sexuality in it.
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