I don't wear perfume. So I really can't fathom what made me read this book since neither haute perfumes nor drugstore brands interest me at all. What was truly interesting about this book was the way that Chandler Burr interweaves the stories of the creation of two perfumes - one for the house of Hermes and the other for Sex and the City siren Sarah Jessica Parker.An insider's view of the world of perfumes...who knew that most houses with signature scents commission one of a few companies to make their perfumes? All the day to day grind of creating an olfactory marvel is written here, and remarkably one feels like reading it instead of shelving it among a bunch of chemistry texts.
Something different and something new. Some kind of exotic blend of tea should be drunk while reading this. Certainly not your common variety of orange pekoe.
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