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The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,512 ratings — published 2008
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scented)
avg rating 3.74 — 885 ratings — published 2006
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as scented)
avg rating 4.09 — 843 ratings — published 2001
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as scented)
avg rating 3.74 — 600 ratings — published 2012
Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.62 — 110 ratings — published
The Smell Culture Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 2006
The Case Against Fragrance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.80 — 512 ratings — published 2017
The Scent Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.51 — 187 ratings — published 2007
The Little Book of Perfumes: The Hundred Classics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.05 — 285 ratings — published 2011
The Perfume Companion: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.20 — 76 ratings — published
Perfume Bottles (Pocket Collectibles)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.05 — 20 ratings — published 2006
Perfumes: The Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.12 — 418 ratings — published 2018
SCENTS OF THE TIME (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.82 — 33 ratings — published 1999
Atlas of Perfumed Botany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.09 — 150 ratings — published
The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.75 — 12 ratings — published 2014
Urban Smellscapes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2013
Designing with Smell: Practices, Techniques and Challenges (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published
Olfaction, Taste, and Cognition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 1998
Perfume: In Search of Your Signature Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.35 — 130 ratings — published
Perfume: A Century of Scents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.86 — 351 ratings — published 2015
The Big Book of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.34 — 74 ratings — published 2018
Scents & Sensibilities: Creating Solid Perfumes for Well-Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.90 — 84 ratings — published 2005
Jasmine: The Flowers of Grasse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1996
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,126 ratings — published
Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.84 — 138 ratings — published 2021
The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of Our Most Elusive Sense (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.62 — 84 ratings — published 2017
Fragrance: From plant to perfume, the botanical origins of scent (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.11 — 19 ratings — published
Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.88 — 198 ratings — published
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.80 — 214 ratings — published 1982
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.74 — 421 ratings — published 2014
In Search of Perfumes: A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.03 — 401 ratings — published 2021
That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.66 — 335 ratings — published 2012
Full Bloom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.81 — 813 ratings — published 2025
The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.85 — 499 ratings — published 2009
On the Scent: Unlocking the Mysteries of Smell -- and How Its Loss Can Change Your World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.19 — 37 ratings — published
The Secret Language of Flowers: The Historical Symbolism and Spiritual Properties of Flowers Throughout Time (DK Secret Histories)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.75 — 65 ratings — published
The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.86 — 168 ratings — published
Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.98 — 260 ratings — published 2013
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.04 — 539,062 ratings — published 1985
Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 3.60 — 105 ratings — published 2022
Common Scents: Poetry, Modernity, and a Revolution of the Senses (Suny Series, Lit in Theory)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Pink Pepper in Perfumery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Orange in Perfumery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Museum of Scent: Exploring the Curious and Wondrous World of Fragrance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.22 — 37 ratings — published
The Patchouli in Perfumery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Jasmine Sambac in Perfumery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Ylang-ylang in Perfumery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Immortelle in Perfumery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Cinnamon in Perfumery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Blackcurrant Bud in Perfumery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scented)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
“We need not be afraid of second-guessing our firm convictions or our holy truths because they often look like dazzling poppies or scented daffodils wilting after a while as if they had never existed. (“Measuring space”)”
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“We have the geometry
of billows as prayer, the fen-
nel-scented sky, hoarfrost.”
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of billows as prayer, the fen-
nel-scented sky, hoarfrost.”
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