false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg 1742032 6 From the New York Times perfume critic, a stylish, fascinating, unprecedented insider's view of an industry and its charismatic characters No journalist has ever been allowed into the ultrasecretive, highly pressured process of originating a perfume. But Chandler Burr, the New York Times perfume critic, spent a year behind the scenes observing the creation of two major fragrances. Now, writing with wit and elegance, he juxtaposes the stories of the perfumes-one created by a Frenchman in Paris for an exclusive luxury-goods house, the other made in New York by actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Coty, Inc., a giant international corporation. We follow Coty's mating of star power to the marketing of perfume, watching Sex and the City's Parker heading a hugely expensive campaign to launch a scent into the overcrowded celebrity market. Will she match the success of Jennifer Lopez? Does she have the international fan base to drive worldwide sales? In Paris at the elegant Herms, we see Jean Claude Ellena, his company's new head perfumer, given a challenge: he must create a scent to resuscitate Herms's perfume business and challenge le monstre of the industry, bestselling Chanel No. 5. Will his pilgrimage to a garden on the Nile supply the inspiration he needs? The answer lies in Burr's informative and mesmerizing portrait of some of the extraordinary personalities who envision, design, create, and launch the perfumes that drive their billion-dollar industry. 2631945 22 1 2008 The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York total:156|5:24|4:67|3:48|2:13|1:4| 156 562 281 60 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 4 1 false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 18:08:29 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 18:20:25 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 4 2 false Sun Nov 16 08:21:24 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 08:22:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 2 1 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 10:05:53 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 09:58:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 3 1 false Mon Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 00:44:03 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 00:44:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2607297 1400106575 9781400106578 1 1 3.60 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2607297.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 3 1 false Sat May 03 08:23:21 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 05:34:12 -0700 2008
This book would have been great if the author didn't list EVERY. SINGLE. INGREDIENT. It did NOT translate well to audio. Listening to the narrator read ON and ON about dimethylhydroxide or whatever those ingredients was not a good time, and left me fast forwa...more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 2 1 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 11 18:05:13 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 18:17:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 0 1 false Wed Jul 16 09:15:44 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 10:18:52 -0700 2008 That and my Mom read it and recommended it and my interest was piqued when she told me it recounted the making of Hermes, Le Jardin Sur la Nil...more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 4 0 false Thu Mar 12 18:28:22 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 18:29:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4268159 0312425775 9780312425777 4 2 3.60 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4268159.Perfect_Scent 4 0 false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 14:55:52 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 15:08:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 3 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 08 07:23:58 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 07:34:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 4 0 false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 09:27:35 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 09:28:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 3 1 false Wed Aug 13 09:50:43 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 06:50:20 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 09:50:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4268159 0312425775 9780312425777 4 2 3.60 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4268159.Perfect_Scent 2 0 true Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 04:25:06 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 08:08:32 -0800 2009
The American perfume is Lovely by Coty, a celebrity perfu...more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 5 0 false Thu Jun 18 19:30:10 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 19:33:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 5 0 false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 14:17:48 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 23:30:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 4 0 false Fri Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 03:03:54 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 14:47:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 3 0 false Mon Aug 18 20:46:28 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 21:45:23 -0700 2008
Two perfumes: one for a vapid american celebrity, and another for a centuries-old French fashion house. Burr takes us inside the iron curtain of...more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 4 0 false Sun Aug 17 11:10:07 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 11:10:53 -0700 2008 Perfume: Story of a Murderer, which took place in the late 1800s.  Scent is a difficult thing to write about, probably, and the novel did an excellent job.  Chandler Burr, author of The Perfect Scent just doe...more...]]> 1742032 0805080376 9780805080377 150 56 3.60 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187650367m/1742032.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742032.The_Perfect_Scent_A_Year_Inside_the_Perfume_Industry_in_Paris_and_New_York 3 0 false Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 18:49:01 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 22:32:23 -0700 2008 real reality, if you will. Evidently, there are thousands of people whose lives revolve around the creation of new perfumes. I'll be honest- this is not something that had previously occurred to me.

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