77 books
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8 voters
Scent Books
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The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scent)
avg rating 3.73 — 906 ratings — published 2006
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scent)
avg rating 4.04 — 561,744 ratings — published 1985
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as scent)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,530 ratings — published 2008
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as scent)
avg rating 3.55 — 321 ratings — published 2008
A Natural History of the Senses (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scent)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,942 ratings — published 1990
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scent)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,141 ratings — published
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as scent)
avg rating 3.78 — 484 ratings — published 2007
The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as scent)
avg rating 3.85 — 513 ratings — published 2009
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 863 ratings — published 2001
Perfumes: The Guide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,735 ratings — published 2008
The Scent Keeper (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 72,813 ratings — published 2019
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 1,241 ratings — published 2010
Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scent)
avg rating 4.05 — 305 ratings — published 2020
Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell (Studies in Sensory History)
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avg rating 4.03 — 36 ratings — published 2014
Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 262 ratings — published 2013
The Smell Culture Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 2006
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 640 ratings — published 2012
Perfume: Joy, Scandal, Sin - A Cultural History of Fragrance from 1750 to the Present (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 30 ratings — published 2006
Perfume: A Century of Scents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 359 ratings — published 2015
The Perfume Project: Journeys through Indian fragrance (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published
The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 20 ratings — published
Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 3.89 — 213 ratings — published
Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 3.64 — 116 ratings — published 2022
In Search of Perfumes: A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 4.02 — 427 ratings — published 2021
Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 113 ratings — published
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 423 ratings — published 2014
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 221 ratings — published 1982
Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 124 ratings — published 2007
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 405 ratings — published 2004
The Perfume Collector (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 42,445 ratings — published 2013
Scent and Chemistry: The Molecular World of Odors (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 20 ratings — published 1990
Scent: The Mysterious and Essential Powers of Smell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 30 ratings — published 1988
The Little Book of Perfumes: The Hundred Classics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 292 ratings — published 2011
Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bride (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 412 ratings — published 2012
Jitterbug Perfume (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 81,213 ratings — published 1984
The Big Book of Perfume (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 86 ratings — published 2018
Sandalwood in Perfumery (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Kokular Kitabı 2: Parfümler (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 96 ratings — published 2015
Kokular Kitabı 4: Lezzetler (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.69 — 71 ratings — published 2019
Kokular Kitabı (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 366 ratings — published 2014
The New Perfume Handbook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 1992
The Winter King (Weathermages of Mystral, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 31,343 ratings — published 2014
Fate's Dangerous Fortune (Mirrors of Fate Book 1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 91 ratings — published
Bound in Inked Flame (Of Crows and Thorns Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,009 ratings — published 2025
Pheromone (For the Love of Aliens #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,565 ratings — published 2023
A Soul to Keep (Duskwalker Brides, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 77,782 ratings — published 2022
Luxuria (Shades of Sin, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 17,059 ratings — published 2022
Whispers of the Deep (Deep Waters, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 26,557 ratings — published 2024
Led by the Nose: A Garden of Smells (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published 2002
“Fragrance is everything: it is the relationship between you and your mind, you and other people, you and this world. It is the life that you lead in your head. It is the life that you lead in the ways your skin feels. It is everything.”
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“A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.”
― The Orchard
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