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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 590,345 ratings — published 1985
Perfumes: The Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,749 ratings — published 2008
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.07 — 897 ratings — published 2001
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,574 ratings — published 2008
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,186 ratings — published
Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.97 — 266 ratings — published 2013
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.74 — 693 ratings — published 2012
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.72 — 930 ratings — published 2006
The Perfume Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.00 — 43,020 ratings — published 2013
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,268 ratings — published 2010
Perfume: A Century of Scents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.86 — 374 ratings — published 2015
The Perfume Lover: A Personal History of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.45 — 278 ratings — published 2012
The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.85 — 537 ratings — published 2009
Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.97 — 415 ratings — published 2012
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.87 — 412 ratings — published 2004
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.74 — 429 ratings — published 2014
The Little Book of Perfumes: The Hundred Classics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 295 ratings — published 2011
Jitterbug Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.23 — 82,552 ratings — published 1984
The Scent Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.53 — 190 ratings — published 2007
A Natural History of the Senses (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,029 ratings — published 1990
Perfumes: The Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.11 — 442 ratings — published 2018
Atlas of Botanical Fragrance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.10 — 172 ratings — published
The Big Book of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.26 — 96 ratings — published 2018
Folio Columns 2003-2014 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.34 — 101 ratings — published 2015
Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.67 — 361 ratings — published 2012
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.80 — 506 ratings — published 2007
Cult Perfumes: The World's Most Exclusive Perfumeries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.83 — 59 ratings — published 2013
Perfume Legends: French Feminine Fragrances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.76 — 25 ratings — published 1998
Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 316 ratings — published 2020
Dior: The Perfumes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published 2014
The Book of Lost Fragrances (Reincarnationist, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,798 ratings — published 2012
Scent and Chemistry: The Molecular World of Odors (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.35 — 23 ratings — published 1990
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.55 — 324 ratings — published 2008
The Essence of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.20 — 87 ratings — published 2008
In Search of Perfumes: A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 478 ratings — published 2021
Perfumery Practice and Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.50 — 24 ratings — published 1994
The Scent Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.92 — 74,474 ratings — published 2019
Meet Me in Monaco (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,969 ratings — published 2019
Quintessentially Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.67 — 27 ratings — published 2010
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.79 — 233 ratings — published 1982
Perfume: In Search of Your Signature Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.36 — 134 ratings — published
The Art of Perfumery, and Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants With Instructions for the Manufacture of Perfumes for the Handkerchief, Scented ... ... Preparing Artificial Fruit-Essences, Etc. (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.82 — 108 ratings — published 1973
Fragrance: The Story of Perfume from Cleopatra to Chanel (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.67 — 21 ratings — published 2002
Scents & Sensibilities: Creating Solid Perfumes For Well-being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.90 — 87 ratings — published 2005
The Essence - Discovering the World of Scent, Perfume & Fragrance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.38 — 26 ratings — published
The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.81 — 194 ratings — published
The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.32 — 273 ratings — published
The Perfume Bible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.67 — 52 ratings — published 2014
Chemistry of Fragrances: From Perfumer to Consumer (RSC Paperbacks)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.06 — 31 ratings — published 2006
“From his youth on , he had been accustomed to people's passing him and taking no notice of him whatever , not out contempt -as hehad once believed - But because they were quite unaware of his existence. There was no space surrounding him, no waves broke from him into the atmosphere, as with other people; he had no shadow, so to speak, to cast across another's face. Only if he ran right into someone in a crowd or in a street-corner collision would there be a brief moment of discernment; and th person en countered would bounce off and stare at him for a few seconds as if gazing at a creature that ought not even exist, a creature that, although undeniably there, in some way or other was not present- and would take to his heels and have forgotten him, Grenouille, a moment later .......”
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“Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
