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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 — 577,318 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
“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently be tempted to give in to the exhilarating perfume of fables and fairy tales or to flattering praise and fiction. ("The day the mirror was talking back")”
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“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
