Scent and Subversion by Barbara Herman
In the last decade we have seen many excellent books written about perfume that are intended for a mainstream audience. Among them …
My Perfume Book Collection
It’s only fair that given the amount of time I’ve spent writing about the smell of books that I should be focusing …
Vive le livre! Long live books!
I adore the tactile experience of holding a book. I like gazing at the cover design, feeling the weight of it in …
Nose in a Book: “In the Library” by CB I Hate Perfume and “Paper Passion” by Geza Schoen
My collecting habits are becoming a big problem. Like most New Yorkers, I live in a tiny apartment. I don’t have enough …
The social significance of perfume: Antiquity
The Song of Solomon: Chapter 1 (excerpt) I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots. …
And suddenly the memory returns: Marcel Proust
Perfumers love Marcel Proust. The “episode of the madeleine” is the most famous passage from his multi-volume masterpiece, “À la recherche du …
Baudelaire’s Perfumed Imaginary
There can be perfumes cool as children’s flesh, Like fiddles, sweet, like meadows greenly fresh. Rich, complex, and triumphant, others roll With …