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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 584,037 ratings — published 1985
Perfumes: The Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,746 ratings — published 2008
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.07 — 892 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 — 1,566 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 — 2,179 ratings — published
Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.97 — 264 ratings — published 2013
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.74 — 683 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 — 924 ratings — published 2006
The Perfume Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.00 — 42,890 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 — 1,264 ratings — published 2010
Perfume: A Century of Scents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.87 — 369 ratings — published 2015
The Perfume Lover: A Personal History of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.45 — 277 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 — 534 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 3.98 — 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 — 410 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 — 82,261 ratings — published 1984
The Scent Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.52 — 189 ratings — published 2007
A Natural History of the Senses (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,016 ratings — published 1990
Perfumes: The Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.11 — 438 ratings — published 2018
Atlas of Botanical Fragrance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.10 — 167 ratings — published
The Big Book of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.27 — 92 ratings — published 2018
Folio Columns 2003-2014 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.33 — 100 ratings — published 2015
Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.66 — 358 ratings — published 2012
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.80 — 504 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 4.75 — 24 ratings — published 1998
Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 315 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 — 3,793 ratings — published 2012
The Essence of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.20 — 87 ratings — published 2008
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
In Search of Perfumes: A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.03 — 467 ratings — published 2021
Perfumery Practice and Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.50 — 24 ratings — published 1994
The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.80 — 192 ratings — published
Meet Me in Monaco (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,867 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 3.80 — 231 ratings — published 1982
The Scent Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.92 — 74,189 ratings — published 2019
Perfume: In Search of Your Signature Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.35 — 135 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 3.88 — 86 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 Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.31 — 270 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
“Porque los hombres podían cerrar los ojos ante la grandeza, ante el horror, ante la belleza, y cerrar los oídos a las melodías o las palabras seductoras, pero no podían sustraerse al perfume. Porque el perfume era hermano del aliento. Con él se introducía en los hombres y si éstos querían vivir, tenían que respirarlo. Y una vez en su interior, el perfume iba directo al corazón y allí decidía de modo categórico entre inclinación y desprecio, aversión y atracción, amor y odio. Quien dominaba los olores, dominaba el corazón de los hombres.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“Only a few people chosen by the inevitability of chance have tasted the aloof and delicate freedom of life. It’s like knowing how to arrange flowers in a vase: almost useless knowledge. That fleeting freedom of life must never be forgotten: it should be present like a fragrance.”
― Água Viva
― Água Viva
