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Perfect Scent (2008)

by Chandler Burr(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1606405616 (ISBN13: 9781606405611)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Tantor Audio

review 1: YMMV on this one, depending on how much you know about the perfume industry. Since I knew zilch, this was a fascinating read and I couldn't get enough of it. From the super prestige scent-making at Hermes, to the more commercial celebrity scent-selling at Coty, it provided a really interesting, and contrasting, view of how the perfume industry works today. If you're interested in the subject, I'd definitely recommend it, despite Burr's tendency to translate French, etc. immediately after using it, and describing everyone's outfits and looks (which I appreciated, from a gossipy standpoint, but you might find distracting). I'm also reading Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez's A-Z Guide to Perfumes, and it was really amusing to compare Burr's opinions to Tur... morein's.
review 2: I am slightly anosmic so I'm very curious about what it's like to experience perfumes. Chandler Burr writes about perfumes using evocative images from your other senses so that I can kind of experience the perfume. Here is an example:"Lovely" is the lightest olfactory party dress of powder and sweet, the scent equivalent of the terrific wrap of soft floating mesh fabric I saw one summer enveloping the shoulders of a young woman, a physical cloud she wore elegantly through the East Village streets. One notices that lovely wrap. But "Lovely" is modernest school in behavior. The perfume melts into you, and there is a point in its development when the other person will stop seeing the wrap--where the scent stops behaving like a coat--and sees only the wearer, who is somehow prettier, more delicate--enhanced--in an indefinable way. The perfume, as "the perfume", has disappeared, leaving only you. less

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