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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"An intriguing look at vintage perfume's powerful past, including reviews of more than 300 scents, with stunning period advertisements throughout"--
"Let Scent and Subversion take you for a whiff on the wild side of 20th century perfume. Perfume has been -- and continues to be -- subversive. By playing with gender conventions, highlighting the ripe smells of the human body, or celebrating queer and louche identities, 20th-century perfume broke free...
54) Stalking shadows
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Marie mixes perfumes to sell on market day...She wants to make enough to save a dowry for her sister, Ama, in hopes of Ama marrying well...But her perfumes are more than sweet scents in cheap, cut-glass bottles: A certain few are laced with death. Marie laces the perfume delicately--not with poison but with a hint of honeysuckle she's trained her sister to respond to. Marie marks her victim, and Ama attacks. But she doesn't attack...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
This new edition features new information on ingredients and substitutions, preparing recipes, tinctures, soaps, powders, and more. Complete descriptions are featured for preparations used in enhancing beauty, encouraging psychic perception, increasing confidence, and aiding astral travel.
56) Piglette
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Unlike her brothers and sisters, Piglette, a young French pig, wants everything to be perfect and sweet-smelling, so one day she heads for Paris, where she finds a job in a perfume shop, but still there is something missing.
58) Perfumes
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
An unlikely friendship develops between a perfectionist celebrity "nose" in the perfume industry and the man she hires as her chauffeur.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When her heightened sense of smell disappears, jeopardizing her career, Poppy Patel, a gifted Paris perfumer, returns home to tend to her grandmother's aromatic garden only to discover it has been uprooted and destroyed, while navigating family drama, childhood friendships and a former love to heal an unscented life.
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