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Perfume Books
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 577,323 ratings — published 1985
Perfumes: The Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,745 ratings — published 2008
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.07 — 885 ratings — published 2001
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,557 ratings — published 2008
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,170 ratings — published
Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.97 — 262 ratings — published 2013
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.74 — 669 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 — 921 ratings — published 2006
The Perfume Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.00 — 42,750 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 — 1,256 ratings — published 2010
Perfume: A Century of Scents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.87 — 368 ratings — published 2015
The Perfume Lover: A Personal History of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.45 — 276 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 — 529 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 — 414 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 — 409 ratings — published 2004
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.74 — 428 ratings — published 2014
The Little Book of Perfumes: The Hundred Classics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.05 — 294 ratings — published 2011
Jitterbug Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.23 — 81,951 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 — 7,991 ratings — published 1990
Perfumes: The Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.12 — 434 ratings — published 2018
Atlas of Botanical Fragrance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.08 — 161 ratings — published
Folio Columns 2003-2014 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.31 — 99 ratings — published 2015
Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.66 — 357 ratings — published 2012
The Big Book of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.28 — 90 ratings — published 2018
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.80 — 500 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 — 3,789 ratings — published 2012
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.54 — 323 ratings — published 2008
The Essence of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.21 — 86 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 4.02 — 458 ratings — published 2021
Meet Me in Monaco (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,722 ratings — published 2019
Scent and Chemistry: The Molecular World of Odors (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.36 — 22 ratings — published 1990
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 — 228 ratings — published 1982
Perfumery Practice and Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.45 — 22 ratings — published 1994
The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.83 — 188 ratings — published
The Scent Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.92 — 73,812 ratings — published 2019
Perfume: In Search of Your Signature Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.34 — 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 3.83 — 107 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 4.42 — 26 ratings — published
The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.32 — 266 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
“The question that women casually shopping for perfume ask more than any other is this: "What scent drives men wild?" After years of intense research, we know the definitive answer. It is bacon. Now, on to the far more interesting subject of perfume.”
― Perfumes: The Guide
― Perfumes: The Guide
“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
