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Olfactory Books
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as olfactory)
avg rating 4.04 — 569,019 ratings — published 1985
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as olfactory)
avg rating 3.72 — 911 ratings — published 2006
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as olfactory)
avg rating 4.09 — 874 ratings — published 2001
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as olfactory)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,155 ratings — published
My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as olfactory)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,198 ratings — published 2015
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as olfactory)
avg rating 3.75 — 653 ratings — published 2012
Perfumes: The Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as olfactory)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,739 ratings — published 2008
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as olfactory)
avg rating 3.73 — 425 ratings — published 2014
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as olfactory)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,249 ratings — published 2010
Chemistry of Fragrances: From Perfumer to Consumer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as olfactory)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published
Perfumes: The Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as olfactory)
avg rating 4.12 — 429 ratings — published 2018
Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as olfactory)
avg rating 3.97 — 262 ratings — published 2013
Perfume Legends: French Feminine Fragrances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as olfactory)
avg rating 4.75 — 24 ratings — published 1998
Perfume: A Century of Scents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as olfactory)
avg rating 3.86 — 365 ratings — published 2015
Jitterbug Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 4.23 — 81,533 ratings — published 1984
Beautiful SCENT: The Magical Effect of Perfume on Well-Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published
The Essence - Discovering the World of Scent, Perfume & Fragrance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 4.42 — 26 ratings — published
Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.98 — 413 ratings — published 2012
The Perfume Lover: A Personal History of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.45 — 274 ratings — published 2012
Quintessentially Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.67 — 27 ratings — published 2010
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,546 ratings — published 2008
Scent, the mysterious and essential powers of smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.44 — 9 ratings — published 1992
A Natural History of the Senses (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,956 ratings — published 1990
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.87 — 405 ratings — published 2004
The Perfect Scent (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published
Smelling to Survive: The Amazing World of Our Sense of Smell (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.77 — 88 ratings — published 2022
The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of Our Most Elusive Sense (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.59 — 85 ratings — published 2017
Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.79 — 493 ratings — published 2007
The Chemistry of Fragrances (RSC Paperbacks)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 4.09 — 11 ratings — published 1999
Growing Fragrant Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published
The Perfume Companion: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 4.18 — 77 ratings — published
Perfume: In Search of Your Signature Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 4.34 — 132 ratings — published
Hidden Scents: The Language of Smell in the Age of Approximation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2014
In Search of Perfumes: A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 4.02 — 441 ratings — published 2021
Perfumery: The psychology and biology of fragrance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.38 — 8 ratings — published 1988
Fragrance Chemistry: The Science of the Sense of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1982
The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.82 — 184 ratings — published
The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.86 — 521 ratings — published 2009
Essence of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 4.21 — 86 ratings — published 2008
The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.32 — 258 ratings — published
Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 4.04 — 309 ratings — published 2020
Smells: A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.45 — 93 ratings — published 2017
Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.65 — 116 ratings — published
Perfume Engineering (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2012
Smell: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.96 — 73 ratings — published
The Olfactory System: From Odor Molecules to Motivational Behaviors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2014
The Book of Lost Fragrances (Reincarnationist, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,785 ratings — published 2012
The Smell of Other People's Houses (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 3.93 — 18,172 ratings — published 2016
Olfaction: A Model System for Computational Neuroscience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as olfactory)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1991
“La cucina bears the scents of its past, and every event in its history is recorded with an olfactory memorandum. Here vanilla, coffee, nutmeg, and confidences; there the milky-sweet smell of babies, old leather, sheep's cheese, and violets. In the corner by the larder hangs the stale tobacco smell of old age and death, while the salty scent of lust and satiation clings to the air by the cellar steps along with the aroma of soap, garlic, beeswax, lavender, jealousy, and disappointment.”
― La Cucina
― La Cucina
“The spiraling flights of moths appear haphazard only because of the mechanisms of olfactory tracking are so different from our own. Using binocular vision, we judge the location of an object by comparing the images from two eyes and tracking directly toward the stimulus. But for species relying on the sense of smell, the organism compares points in space, moves in the direction of the greater concentration, then compares two more points successively, moving in zigzags toward the source. Using olfactory navigation the moth detects currents of scent in the air and, by small increments, discovers how to move upstream.”
― Prodigal Summer
― Prodigal Summer
