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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 306 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
No journalist has ever been allowed into the ultrasecretive, highly pressured process of originating a perfume. But Chandler Burr, the New York Times perfume critic, spent a year behind the scenes observing the creation of two major fragrances. Now, writing with wit and elegance, he juxtaposes the stories of the perfumes--one created by a Frenchman in Paris for an exclusive luxury-goods house, the other made in New York by actress Sarah Jessica Parker...
Author
Language
English
Description
A teenage prostitute ascends through the many layers of Victorian London society in this highly acclaimed “big, sexy, bravura a novel” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times).
London, 1870s. At the heart of this panoramic narrative is a young woman’s struggle to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for a...
London, 1870s. At the heart of this panoramic narrative is a young woman’s struggle to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for a...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Women have an affinity with the brand of perfume they wear. People often hold strong emotional connections to different scents, such as their mother's perfume or the body spray they wore as a teen. Despite huge marketing budgets, the launches of established brands often fail, despite extensive marketing research and lavish resources. Why is this? This text is a first in the field to recognize that fine fragrance cannot be treated as any other product....
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle is actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think,...
Author
Series
La vie en rose volume 2
Publisher
[Laura Florand]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruthless. That was what they said about Damien Rosier. Handsome. Wealthy. Powerful. Merciless. No one messed with his family, because to do so they would have to get through him. No one thought he had a heart. Not even the woman he gave his to. Cynical. That was what they said about Jasmin Bianchi. A top perfumer of her generation, Jess had achieved commercial success by growing a protective shell over a tender heart. The one time she cracked it open...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born under his mother's table at the fish market, onto a pile of muddy fish guts, establishing from the beginning his repulsion for putrid scents. A childhood of neglect and, later, a job at a tannery, encourage Jean-Baptiste to develop his olfactory sense rather than his verbal skills. An opportunity to prove his worth to Parisian perfumist Giuseppe Baldini results in his immediate hire into a promising new career. His...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An olfactory adventure that explores the trends and crazes that have shaped the way we've spritzed over the past century. Signature scents and now-lost masterpieces, the visionaries who conceived them; the wild and wonderful campaigns that launched them; the women and men who wore them--every perfume has a tale to tell. Join Lizzie Ostrom, the nose behind "Odette Toilette, " as she examines one hundred perfumes and scents in all their fragrant glory,...
10) Gazelle: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
[Laura Florand]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tristan Rosier might have asked Malorie Monsard to marry him when he was five years old, but things had only gone downhill from there. She'd spent the rest of their lives ignoring him, abandoning him, and destroying his perfumes. Now she was back, to wreak who knew what havoc on his life. Tristan might choose to dismiss the generations-long enmity between their two families, but Malorie didn't have that privilege. Like all the other privileges wealthy,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
ix, 261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alyssa Harad always considered herself practical, earnest, and bookish. She was a proud feminist, a Birkenstock wearer, and a religious recycler; the only interests in which she came anywhere near self-indulgence were food and cooking. Until she chanced upon a blog and read a new kind of review--not of a novel or a recipe but of a perfume. How frivolous and girly, she thought at first. And yet, months later, she noticed she had begun to heard vials...
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly's whirlwind romance and glamorous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d'Azur in this page-turning novel of passion, fate, and second-chances. At the Cannes film festival, Grace Kelly wants only to escape the flash-bulbs. Struggling perfumer Sophie Duval shelters Miss...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, and the garden, laden with orange blossom, grows wild. Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Emma is London's leading perfumier, but her blessed life has taken a difficult turn. Emma's free-spirited mother, Liberty, who taught her the art of fragrance making,...
Author
Series
Reincarnationist volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sweeping and suspenseful tale of secrets, intrigue, and lovers separated by time, all connected through the mystical qualities of a perfume created in the days of Cleopatra--and lost for 2,000 years.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 417 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The creator of the internationally acclaimed Jo Malone London brand traces her upbringing in government-subsidized housing in Kent, her teen efforts to provide care for her stroke-victim mother, the dyslexia that shaped her experience of the world through scent and her survival of breast cancer.
18) Scent of triumph
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When French perfumer Danielle Bretancourt steps aboard a luxury ocean liner, leaving her son behind in Poland with his grandmother, she has no idea that her life is about to change forever. The year is 1939, and the declaration of war on the European continent soon threatens her beloved family, scattered across many countries. Traveling through London and Paris into occupied Poland, Danielle searches desperately for her the remains of her family,...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Tilar Mazzeo, the author of the bestselling The Widow Clicquot, a captivating new book that shares her journey to discover the secret behind the creation, iconic status, and extraordinary success of Chanel No. 5, the world's most famous perfume"--
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
457 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Among the uber-famous, Nicola is the most highly sought-after fragrance maker. Of course, mystery is part of her brand - so no one knows she's actually an over-cautious person who always puts her own life on permanent hold. Until her ultra-personal list of regrets is accidentally put on a social media blast - and she's challenged to go after everything she really wants. But when she reveals her deepest, darkest secret of all, the fallout threatens...
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