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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 555,157 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 — 1,236 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 — 80,954 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
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
In Search of Perfumes: A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.03 — 420 ratings — published 2021
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 — 72,388 ratings — published 2019
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
Perfume: In Search of Your Signature Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.35 — 132 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
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”
― A Book of Burlesques
― A Book of Burlesques
“From his youth on , he had been accustomed to people's passing him and taking no notice of him whatever , not out contempt -as hehad once believed - But because they were quite unaware of his existence. There was no space surrounding him, no waves broke from him into the atmosphere, as with other people; he had no shadow, so to speak, to cast across another's face. Only if he ran right into someone in a crowd or in a street-corner collision would there be a brief moment of discernment; and th person en countered would bounce off and stare at him for a few seconds as if gazing at a creature that ought not even exist, a creature that, although undeniably there, in some way or other was not present- and would take to his heels and have forgotten him, Grenouille, a moment later .......”
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