Status Updates From Europe: A History

In one year, 1810, Napolean ordered 162 bottles of his favorite neroli-based cologne water from the parfumier Chardin. In a famous letter, he once begged Josephine not to bathe for two weeks before they met, so that he could enjoy all her natural aromas. When she died, he planted violets on her grave, and wore a locket made from them for the rest of his life. He was an unabashed odomane.