Perfume: The Art and Craft of Fragrance introduces us to the psychology of smell and explains how fragrance can influence our moods and behavior, and gives a brief overview of perfume through the ages.
The rose is one of the most loved of all flowers used in perfumery . Rose de mai awaiting processing into absolute at the Roure distillery in Grasse . A champion rose - picker can pick up to 50 kg ( 110 lb ) a day , but this yields only ...
Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of unnatural passion and sensual depravity.
To women the whole world over, perfume means glamour, and in the world of perfume, Jean-Claude Ellena is a superstar.
Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. Translated from the German by John E. Woods.
Join Lizzie Ostrom on an olfactory adventure as she explores the trends and crazes that have shaped the way we’ve spritzed.
• A micro-encyclopedia for those who want to know the perfumer's work and learn about the perfume industry from the inside, but have no guide on where to start.
Illustrated by many photographs of the ingredients, production, and presentation of perfumes, this volume outlines the history of perfume and examines the contemporary production of scents. Profiles of famous perfumers...
With the number of new releases steadily increasing, it can be bewildering even attempting to find a perfume you like, let alone love. In Perfume, Neil Chapman guides readers through a world that can at times seem overwhelming.
'Born in sweaty, fetid eighteenth-century Paris, Genouille is distinctive even in infancy.
This thought-provoking volume transports readers to France of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, beginning with Napoleon's love of perfume and the erotic importance he attached to it, through the...
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille.
Told with dazzling narrative brilliance and the haunting power of a grown-up fairy tale, Perfume is one of the most remarkable novels of the last fifty years.
An erotic masterpiece of twentieth century fiction - a tale of sensual obsession and bloodlust in eighteenth century Paris 'An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution' Guardian In eighteenth-century France there lived a man ...
A murder was the start of his obsession.
Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"--the scent of a beautiful young virgin.
Perfume: the story of a murder
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Patrick Süskind is a German writer and screenwriter, known best for his novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, first published in 1985. This is the Chinese translation of his book perfume.
Perhaps it reminds us of our favorite aunt. A memory in a bottle is a powerful thing. Megan Volpert's Perfume carefully balances the artistry with the science of perfume.