PHILOSOPHY OF PERFUME (HB)

Perfumes have defined what an era’s luxury, femininity, and allure smell like; even a lingering scent of someone’s signature perfume can be enough to send our minds reeling back through our memories. In this book, fragrance writer and journalist Alice du Parcq takes us on a journey through perfume’s history, the figures who have acted as perfume’s great muses, the psychology of scent, the obsessive search for ever-rarer ingredients, notes on dissecting scents, iconic bottle designs and how to find your perfect scent.