Trouble with a small excerpt from Tanizaki's Himitsu


I'm having some trouble understanding the following excerpt (from Tanizaki's
_Himitsu_ ):

> 甘い匂いのひやひやとした露が、毛穴へ染み入る皮膚のよろこびは格別であった

"The sweet scented and chilly dew" does what? "the delight of the skin that
penetrated the pores was exceptional"? Help me!




> ［甘い匂いのひやひやとした露が、毛穴へ染み入る］皮膚のよろこびは格別であった。

甘い匂いのひやひやとした露が、毛穴へ染み入る is a relative clause modifying 皮膚.  
The subject of 染み入る is 甘い匂いのひやひやとした露.

The sentence roughly means something like.....

> "The delight of the skin [into the pores of which the sweet scented and
> chilly dew penetrated] was exceptional" / "The delight of the skin [when the
> sweet scented and chilly dew penetrated its pores] was exceptional."




> ［甘い匂いのひやひやとした露が、毛穴へ染み入る］皮膚のよろこびは格別であった。

甘い匂いのひやひやとした露が、毛穴へ染み入る is a relative clause modifying 皮膚.  
The subject of 染み入る is 甘い匂いのひやひやとした露.

The sentence roughly means something like.....

> "The delight of the skin [into the pores of which the sweet scented and
> chilly dew penetrated] was exceptional" / "The delight of the skin [when the
> sweet scented and chilly dew penetrated its pores] was exceptional."

