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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 538,069 ratings — published 1985
Perfumes: The Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,711 ratings — published 2008
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.09 — 840 ratings — published 2001
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,508 ratings — published 2008
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,126 ratings — published
Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.98 — 260 ratings — published 2013
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.74 — 881 ratings — published 2006
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.74 — 598 ratings — published 2012
The Perfume Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.00 — 42,050 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 — 1,227 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 24 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.86 — 350 ratings — published 2015
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
The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.85 — 498 ratings — published 2009
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.86 — 400 ratings — published 2004
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.74 — 421 ratings — published 2014
The Little Book of Perfumes: The Hundred Classics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.05 — 285 ratings — published 2011
Jitterbug Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.23 — 80,126 ratings — published 1984
The Scent Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.51 — 187 ratings — published 2007
A Natural History of the Senses (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,873 ratings — published 1990
Folio Columns 2003-2014 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.28 — 98 ratings — published 2015
Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.68 — 355 ratings — published 2012
Atlas of Perfumed Botany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.09 — 150 ratings — published
Perfumes: The Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.12 — 418 ratings — published 2018
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.77 — 478 ratings — published 2007
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 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 296 ratings — published 2020
The Big Book of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.36 — 73 ratings — published 2018
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.54 — 315 ratings — published 2008
Dior: The Perfumes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published 2014
The Book of Lost Fragrances (Reincarnationist, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,733 ratings — published 2012
Meet Me in Monaco (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,912 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 — 214 ratings — published 1982
Essence of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.21 — 85 ratings — published 2008
The Scent Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.93 — 71,200 ratings — published 2019
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
Perfumery Practice and Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 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 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.86 — 168 ratings — published
The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.32 — 223 ratings — published
Perfume: In Search of Your Signature Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.35 — 130 ratings — published
The Perfume Bible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.67 — 51 ratings — published 2014
The Art of Perfumery, and Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants With Instructions for the Manufacture of Perfumes for the Handkerchief, Scented Powders, ... Preparing Artificial Fruit-Essences, Etc. (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.86 — 104 ratings — published 1973
The Collector of Dying Breaths (Reincarnationist, #6)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,628 ratings — published 2014
SCENTS OF THE TIME (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.82 — 33 ratings — published 1999
Perfume: The Art and Science of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.91 — 75 ratings — published 1998
The Essence - Discovering the World of Scent, Perfume & Fragrance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.42 — 24 ratings — published
“I can't over-emphasize how important an exquisite perfume is, to be wrapped and cradled in an enchanting scent upon your skin is a magic all on its own! The notes in that precious liquid will remind you that you love yourself and will tell other people that they ought to love you because you know that you're worth it. The love affair created by a good perfume between you and other people, you and nature, you and yourself, you and your memories and anticipations and hopes and dreams; it is all too beautiful a thing!”
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“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
