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Scents Books
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The Big Book of Perfume (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 88 ratings — published 2018
Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published
Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell (Studies in Sensory History)
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avg rating 4.03 — 36 ratings — published 2014
Perfume: A Century of Scents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 367 ratings — published 2015
Essence of Perfume (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 86 ratings — published 2008
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 499 ratings — published 2007
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 408 ratings — published 2004
SCENTS OF THE TIME (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 35 ratings — published 1999
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 661 ratings — published 2012
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 573,553 ratings — published 1985
How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 176 ratings — published
Listening to Scent: An Olfactory Journey with Aromatic Plants and Their Extracts (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 37 ratings — published 2014
The Secret of a Heart Note (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,024 ratings — published 2016
The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 46 ratings — published 1983
The Domestic Herbal: Plants for the Home in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published
Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds: Papers from a Special Session of the Fifty-Fifth Meeting of the Seminar ... Studies, Held in Berlin on 6th August 2022 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Curious Case of the Pheromonophone (Audible Audio)
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avg rating 3.08 — 63 ratings — published
The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.90 — 135 ratings — published 2022
Ylang-ylang in Perfumery (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell—and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 218 ratings — published
The Scent Keeper (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 73,566 ratings — published 2019
Fragrance: From plant to perfume, the botanical origins of scent (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
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avg rating 4.00 — 32 ratings — published
The Color of Roses: A Curated Spectrum of 300 Blooms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 30 ratings — published
Meaningful Scents Around the World: Olfactory, Chemical, Biological, and Cultural Considerations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published 2006
Moss & Murder (Willowmere Cozy Mysteries Book 2)
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avg rating 4.46 — 28 ratings — published
Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published
Cosmetics & Perfumes in the Roman World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 15 ratings — published 2007
Oils and Perfumes of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 13 ratings — published 1998
The Artifice of Beauty: A History and Practical Guide to Perfume and Cosmetics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 32 ratings — published 2005
World of Fragrance: Potpourri and Sachets from Caprilands (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
Magnolia in Perfumery (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2024
Pink Pepper in Perfumery (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Orange in Perfumery (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Orange Blossom in Perfumery (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
La Rose de Damas en parfumerie (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published
Jasmine Sambac in Perfumery (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Vanilla in Perfumery (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree: Getting to know trees through the language of scent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 161 ratings — published
Scented Visions: Smell in Art, 1850-1914 (Perspectives on Sensory History)
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avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published
L'Iris en parfumerie (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
Vetiver in Perfumery (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Le Narcisse en parfumerie (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Leonardo da Vinci and the Perfumes of the Renaissance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Scent of the Vanishing Flora (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2011
De la plante à l'essence - Un tour du monde des matières à parfum (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2022
Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 60,559 ratings — published 2020
Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe (Nuncius Series, 9)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Parfums d'Orient: à l’Institut du monde arabe (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published
Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 151 ratings — published
The Scent of Orchids: Olfactory and Chemical Investigations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1992
“I finish dusting the leaves of my jasmine. I love white flowers with distinctive scents. Give me a powerful tuberose or sweet orange blossom any day.”
― The Library of Flowers
― The Library of Flowers
“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
