Chandler Burr's upcoming book, The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York, is now available for pre-order at Amazon:
...a stylish, fascinating, unprecedented insider's view of an industry and its charismatic characters. No journalist has ever been allowed into the ultrasecretive, highly pressured process of originating a perfume. But Chandler Burr, the New York Times perfume critic, spent a year behind the scenes observing the creation of two major fragrances. Now, writing with wit and elegance, he juxtaposes the stories of the perfumes-one created by a Frenchman in Paris for an exclusive luxury-goods house, the other made in New York by actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Coty, Inc., a giant international corporation.
The "Frenchman", of course, is perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena of Hermès. The book is due to be published in January 2008. For more information, see chandlerburr.
Related reading: the Perfume Books page.
Update: see a review of The Perfect Scent.
Read it here. Ordered it there (Amazon). Six mouse clicks and I'm taking advantage of the Burr/Turin pre-order discount offer. Gotta love what technology can do for you in three minutes time.
Hey, didn't even notice the double-perfume pre-order deal! Not bad at all
I don't even remember how we used to shop pre-internet.
If only I could then I would order this book right away!
Don't know if the long arms of Amazon.com reach CZ.
And this could become a new phase in my love for perfume…reading about it.
Do check out some of Marcello's book reviews (see link to Perfume books page above). Reading about it is sometimes even more fun than smelling
OK, I will
And reading about perfume gives our mania a reassuring touch of serious cultural studies.
LOL — exactly!