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Originally Posted by Caligulette
Powell's Books - Perfumes: The A-Z Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez
I am feeling the lust for scent again. I am happy with my usual fragrance (Alien) even though they gave it mneh marks (they've never smelled it on *me*!), but am also opening some older bottles (Joy) and re-trying. Plus it's hilarious. ("Pleasant, clean, slightly melancholy little thing, in the ugliest bottle since East Germany went under.")
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You must read
The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr. It's about Luca Turin and his quest to prove that we smell by molecular vibration as opposed to shape. Now his ideas have been all but decredited but the story is still excellent.