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| | Perfume at Beauty Infoport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | This book tells the story of a perfume bottle, a man who started as king, became a peasant, then a wanderer and finally an immortal and his journeys, the decline and death of Pan, and various perfumers who are seeking the ultimate fragrance. |
 | | With small doses of perfume "travelogue", autobiography, history of the scent industry and the science of scent, and the description of the author's revelations about the biochemistry and biophysics of human olfaction, it was difficult to keep from reading it in one sitting. |
 | | According to nineteenth-century perfumer Eugene Rimmel, "the history of perfume is, in some manner, the history of civilization." Through fascinating text accompanied by gorgeous imagery, including packaging, labels, and advertisements, Perfume: Joy, Scandal, Sin explores perfume's impact on history, culture, society, art, and attitudes. |
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