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Perfume Books
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 568,939 ratings — published 1985
Perfumes: The Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,739 ratings — published 2008
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.09 — 874 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 3.87 — 1,546 ratings — published 2008
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,155 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
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.72 — 911 ratings — published 2006
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.75 — 652 ratings — published 2012
The Perfume Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.00 — 42,564 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 3.51 — 1,249 ratings — published 2010
The Perfume Lover: A Personal History of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.45 — 274 ratings — published 2012
Perfume: A Century of Scents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.86 — 365 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 3.86 — 521 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 — 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 — 405 ratings — published 2004
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.73 — 425 ratings — published 2014
The Little Book of Perfumes: The Hundred Classics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.04 — 292 ratings — published 2011
Jitterbug Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.23 — 81,531 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 — 7,957 ratings — published 1990
Perfumes: The Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.12 — 429 ratings — published 2018
Atlas of Botanical Fragrance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.08 — 159 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 3.67 — 357 ratings — published 2012
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.79 — 493 ratings — published 2007
The Big Book of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.30 — 87 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 4.04 — 308 ratings — published 2020
The Book of Lost Fragrances (Reincarnationist, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,785 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 — 321 ratings — published 2008
Dior: The Perfumes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published 2014
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 4.03 — 440 ratings — published 2021
Meet Me in Monaco (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,526 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 — 222 ratings — published 1982
Perfumery Practice and Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.43 — 21 ratings — published 1994
The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.82 — 184 ratings — published
The Scent Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 3.92 — 73,278 ratings — published 2019
Perfume: In Search of Your Signature Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.34 — 132 ratings — published
Scent and Chemistry: The Molecular World of Odors (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as perfume)
avg rating 4.33 — 21 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 3.87 — 87 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 — 258 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 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
“He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but super human, an angels scent, so indescribably good and vital that who ever smelt it would be enchanted and with his whole heart would have to love him.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“Porque los hombres podían cerrar los ojos ante la grandeza, ante el horror, ante la belleza, y cerrar los oídos a las melodías o las palabras seductoras, pero no podían sustraerse al perfume. Porque el perfume era hermano del aliento. Con él se introducía en los hombres y si éstos querían vivir, tenían que respirarlo. Y una vez en su interior, el perfume iba directo al corazón y allí decidía de modo categórico entre inclinación y desprecio, aversión y atracción, amor y odio. Quien dominaba los olores, dominaba el corazón de los hombres.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
