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Perfume Books
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 555,218 ratings — published 1985
Perfumes: The Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,726 ratings — published 2008
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.10 — 853 ratings — published 2001
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,520 ratings — published 2008
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,137 ratings — published
Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.97 — 262 ratings — published 2013
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.75 — 629 ratings — published 2012
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.73 — 899 ratings — published 2006
The Perfume Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.00 — 42,362 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 3.52 — 1,237 ratings — published 2010
The Perfume Lover: A Personal History of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.45 — 273 ratings — published 2012
Perfume: A Century of Scents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.85 — 359 ratings — published 2015
The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.85 — 510 ratings — published 2009
Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.97 — 412 ratings — published 2012
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.87 — 404 ratings — published 2004
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.74 — 423 ratings — published 2014
The Little Book of Perfumes: The Hundred Classics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.05 — 291 ratings — published 2011
Jitterbug Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.23 — 80,955 ratings — published 1984
The Scent Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.52 — 188 ratings — published 2007
A Natural History of the Senses (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,921 ratings — published 1990
Perfumes: The Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.12 — 426 ratings — published 2018
Folio Columns 2003-2014 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.27 — 99 ratings — published 2015
Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.67 — 355 ratings — published 2012
Atlas of Perfumed Botany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.10 — 153 ratings — published
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.77 — 483 ratings — published 2007
The Big Book of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.32 — 81 ratings — published 2018
Cult Perfumes: The World's Most Exclusive Perfumeries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.81 — 58 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 4.05 — 303 ratings — published 2020
The Book of Lost Fragrances (Reincarnationist, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,752 ratings — published 2012
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.55 — 319 ratings — published 2008
Dior: The Perfumes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published 2014
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 — 420 ratings — published 2021
Meet Me in Monaco (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,178 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 — 220 ratings — published 1982
Essence of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.20 — 86 ratings — published 2008
Perfumery Practice and Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.40 — 20 ratings — published 1994
The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.84 — 176 ratings — published
The Scent Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.93 — 72,393 ratings — published 2019
Perfume: In Search of Your Signature Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.35 — 132 ratings — published
Scent and Chemistry: The Molecular World of Odors (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.35 — 20 ratings — published 1990
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 — 84 ratings — published 2005
The Essence - Discovering the World of Scent, Perfume & Fragrance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.44 — 25 ratings — published
The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.32 — 245 ratings — published
The Perfume Bible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.67 — 51 ratings — published 2014
Chemistry of Fragrances: From Perfumer to Consumer (Rsc Paperbacks)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.07 — 30 ratings — published 2006
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 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.85 — 105 ratings — published 1973
“And then I threw up from all the anesthesia and my teeth were still chattering and they were telling me not to vomit so hard, otherwise my stitches would bust open. I said,'I don't know how to vomit softly.' That's like telling someone to shit perfume.”
― Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
― Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently be tempted to give in to the exhilarating perfume of fables and fairy tales or to flattering praise and fiction. ("The day the mirror was talking back")”
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