They often incorporate their personal experiences with the scent. The inexpensive and widely available (Dior Poison) are represented as well as the discontinued and difficult to find (Yohji Yamamoto Yohji Homme).īoth Turin and Sanchez write about each fragrance lovingly, and humorously. There are bestsellers (Thierry Mugler Angel) and eponymous braggarts (Badgley Mischka by Badgley Mischka). There are lesser-known perfumes from big names (Chanel 31 Rue Cambon) and little-known scents from niche players (Caldey Island Lavender). The selections are arranged alphabetically with the name of each scent and its maker, followed by a two-word, CliffsNotes-style description of its basic notes, a price rating and a more elaborate description.
Both authors’ descriptions are as scintillating and evocative as the perfumes they include, some of which are no longer available in their original formulations but as reconstructions. Turin is a biophysicist and olfactory science scholar. Sanchez is an avid perfume collector and blogger. They both live in Boston.The book spans “prim bouquets of white flowers, sour pine-and-sage compositions fit for a desert night, classical milky-musky scents that should waft from fifties mink coats, modern transparent odors that fill the room with traces of herbs or woodsmoke, hairy-chested aromatic things for disco-dancing men with mustaches, Arabian attars of rose and incense, lush and bittersweet balsams for serious ladies, and more, may there always be more,” Sanchez writes with characteristic elegance in the book’s foreword. Tania Sanchez is a perfume collector and expert, and journalist. He is the author of The Secret of Scent and the subject of the bestselling Emperor of Scent. Luca Turin is a scientist with a controversial theory of how we smell.
This stunningly produced petite volume offers lovers of perfume the best of the best-a perfect gift book for anyone looking either for a brilliant fragrance or an intelligent, witty read. The Little Book of Perfumes focuses on just one hundred masterpieces of perfume: ninety-six five-star perfumes from the original book, as well as four "museum" perfumes-legendary scents that are preserved in the Versailles Osmothèque. When Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez published Perfumes: The Guide in 2008, it was hailed as "ravishingly entertaining" by John Lanchester in The New Yorker, "witty and knowledgeable" on, and "provocative and hugely entertaining" by the Times Literary Supplement. Synopsis: The quintessential guide to the one hundred most glorious perfumes in the world.
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