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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as scent)
avg rating 4.04 — 585,442 ratings — published 1985
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scent)
avg rating 3.72 — 925 ratings — published 2006
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 — 1,571 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 — 324 ratings — published 2008
A Natural History of the Senses (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as scent)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,021 ratings — published 1990
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as scent)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,183 ratings — published
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scent)
avg rating 4.07 — 892 ratings — published 2001
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as scent)
avg rating 3.80 — 504 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 — 535 ratings — published 2009
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as scent)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,264 ratings — published 2010
Perfumes: The Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as scent)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,747 ratings — published 2008
The Scent Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as scent)
avg rating 3.92 — 74,272 ratings — published 2019
Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scent)
avg rating 4.04 — 315 ratings — published 2020
Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell (Studies in Sensory History)
by (shelved 4 times as scent)
avg rating 4.00 — 37 ratings — published 2014
Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scent)
avg rating 3.97 — 265 ratings — published 2013
The Smell Culture Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scent)
avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published 2006
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scent)
avg rating 3.74 — 684 ratings — published 2012
Scent and Chemistry: The Molecular World of Odors (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as scent)
avg rating 4.35 — 23 ratings — published 1990
Perfume: Joy, Scandal, Sin - A Cultural History of Fragrance from 1750 to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as scent)
avg rating 3.97 — 30 ratings — published 2006
The Big Book of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 4.26 — 93 ratings — published 2018
Perfume: A Century of Scents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 3.87 — 369 ratings — published 2015
The Perfume Project: Journeys through Indian fragrance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published
The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 4.22 — 23 ratings — published
Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 3.92 — 224 ratings — published
Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 3.64 — 135 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 4.04 — 471 ratings — published 2021
Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 3.66 — 119 ratings — published
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 3.74 — 429 ratings — published 2014
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 3.80 — 232 ratings — published 1982
Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 3.51 — 126 ratings — published 2007
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 3.87 — 411 ratings — published 2004
The Perfume Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 4.00 — 42,921 ratings — published 2013
Scent: The Mysterious and Essential Powers of Smell (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 3.47 — 30 ratings — published 1988
The Little Book of Perfumes: The Hundred Classics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 4.04 — 295 ratings — published 2011
Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 3.98 — 415 ratings — published 2012
Jitterbug Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scent)
avg rating 4.23 — 82,323 ratings — published 1984
The Psychological Basis of Perfumery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1996
Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 3.82 — 138 ratings — published 1999
Immortal Rose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,095 ratings — published 2026
All Grown Up (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 3.74 — 124 ratings — published 2015
Sandalwood in Perfumery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Kokular Kitabı 2: Parfümler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 4.39 — 97 ratings — published 2015
Kokular Kitabı 4: Lezzetler (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 4.69 — 72 ratings — published 2019
Kokular Kitabı (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 4.41 — 377 ratings — published 2014
The New Perfume Handbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 1992
The Winter King (Weathermages of Mystral, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 3.98 — 32,135 ratings — published 2014
Fate's Dangerous Fortune (Mirrors of Fate Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 4.22 — 112 ratings — published
Bound in Inked Flame (Of Crows and Thorns Saga, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,568 ratings — published 2025
Pheromone (For the Love of Aliens, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as scent)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,106 ratings — published 2023
“May your love for me be
like
the scent of the evening sea
drifting in
through a quiet window
so i do not have to run
or chase or fall
... to feel you
all i have to do
is
breathe.”
― A Thousand Flamingos
like
the scent of the evening sea
drifting in
through a quiet window
so i do not have to run
or chase or fall
... to feel you
all i have to do
is
breathe.”
― A Thousand Flamingos
“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air--moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh--felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing. Honeysuckle, swamp flowers, magnolia, and the mystery smell of the river scented the atmosphere, amplifying the intrusion of organic sleaze. It was aphrodisiac and repressive, soft and violent at the same time. In New Orleans, in the French Quarter, miles from the barking lungs of alligators, the air maintained this quality of breath, although here it acquired a tinge of metallic halitosis, due to fumes expelled by tourist buses, trucks delivering Dixie beer, and, on Decatur Street, a mass-transit motor coach named Desire.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
