What is it: a copy of Rare Perfumes (the English version), the niche perfume book commissioned by the Osmothèque and written by Sabine Chabbert and Laurence Férat, with preface by Patricia de Nicolaï.
How do I get it: For a chance to win, leave a comment on the website telling me that you live in the US. Then tell me either a) your favorite perfume book or b) your favorite niche perfume or c) something else you've been dying to post in a comment.
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The contest will be open until noon or so on Friday, and I'll announce the winner the following Tuesday.
The fine print: Don't enter the contest unless I have permission to use the email address in your reader account to contact you. If the email address in your reader account is incorrect, you might want to fix it. If you are the winner and you fail to send me your mailing details within a couple weeks, I’ll give your prize away to someone else. Sadly, it sometimes usually takes me a month to mail a package. Reasonable care will be taken in the packaging and mailing of your prize, but if the contents are lost or damaged or fail to please you for any reason whatsoever, I’m sorry but I cannot replace them.
Live in the U.S., favorite perfume book is Michael Edwards’ Parfums du Monde, and my current fave niche scent is Le Temps d’une Fete.
I live in the US and my favorite perfume books is Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez’ Perfumes the A-Z guide. It is the one that started me down this rabbit hole. I love the reviews even if I don’t always agree with them. I hear rumors that they are working on a sequel! Hope so!
I live in the US and my favorite perfume book is Mady Aftel’s essence and alchemy. That book opened me up to perfume beyond just finding a holy grail vanilla (which is still essential, mind you!).
I live in the US. My favorite perfume book right now is Scent and Subversion.
I live in the U.S. and my favorite niche perfume is Une Rose de Kandahar by Tauer Perfumes.
Thank you!
I live in the US and though I’ve read many, my favorite perfume book is still Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez’ Perfumes A-Z The Guide.
Thanks for this opportunity to read a new perfume book!
I live in the US and my favorite perfume book is also Perfumes the Guide
I live in the US and while not exactly a perfume book I’m currently loving the catalog from the JAR exhibit at the met that I got yesterday. And I have Bolt of Lightning on the back of my wrist so that’s pretty great.
I live in the US, and my favorite perfume book, like others here, is Perfumes: the Guide.
I live in the US and my favorite perfume book is Coming To My Senses by Alyssa Harad. It piqued my interest in perfumes, and then I found The Guide, and then I was lost…but in a good way. Thanks for the draw!
I live in the US, and my favorite niche perfume is Tauer’s Orris.
I live in the US.
My favorite “perfume” book is “If There Ever Was: a book of extinct and impossible smells” by Robert Blackson.
My favorite niche perfume at this moment is Hylnds — Isle Ryder.
I live in the US.
My current favorite perfume book is Perfume: The Art an Craft of Fragrance by Karen Gilbert. I’m thinking of trying some of her suggested recipies.
Thanks for the giveaway!
I live in the U.S.A. and you have permission to use my email address.
Nigel Groom’s the Perfume Handbook is my favourite perfume book.
Onda EDP is really great!
I live in the US and you have my permission to use the email address in my reader account to contact me. I don’t know if this qualifies as a perfume book, but I really enjoyed “Floating Gold: A Natural and Unnatural History of Ambergris” by Christopher Kemp. Thanks for the draw.
Fun!
I live in the US. My favorite niche perfume at the moment is. . . gosh. . . whichever one I’m wearing in the moment?! Today it’s Tauer’s PHI. Tomorrow? Probably Amouage Lyric Woman.
Hi Robin! Thanks so much for this opportunity! I live in the U.S and you definitely have my permission to use my email address. I would love for “Rare Perfumes” to be my favorite book on fragrances as I have been in search of finding one to start my collection. My favorite niche perfume is no surprise to anyone who knows me………anything from Jo Malone’s collection. I am in love with her fragrances. She has a scent for every mood a woman wants to feel: sexy, mysterious, adventurous, romantic, etc….
Thank you for this! Am working my way through Perfume Legends and am enjoying it very much–but of the books I’ve finished on perfume, The Guide still has had the greatest influence on me. It showed me how much fun it was to feel passionately about a fragrance–good or bad. (I live in the US :))
I live in the US (Louisiana) and my current perfume book of choice is, Perfumes: The A-Z Guide: Luca Turin, Tina Sanchez. I am 21 and currently obsessed with everything from a good candle to an Eau de Parfum. I really love anything Fredric Malle and in my opinion he is a true mastermind on capturing not only a scent but a feeling and/or memory. I would be thrilled to add this book to my growing collection of scent knowledge and I love the blog!
I live outside Boston in the US. About to read ‘Perfume: The Story of a Murderer’ by Patrick Suskind. Favorite niche: PoTL Luctor et Emergo.
I live in the US. My favorite niche perfume is Nuit de Tubereuse, judging by my nearly empty bottle! It is a summer staple. Thank you for the opportunity to enter this drawing.
I live in the US. Like nearly everyone else here, my favorite book has to be the A to Z guide. I reach for it at least every other day.
Thank you for the draw!
I read and reread The Guide so many times that I can confidently say that it is my favorite perfume book. I love several fragrances from Ineke and Sonoma Scent Studio. I live in the U.S. Thanks!
The Guide is probably my favorite because it is worn out, dog eared, and stuffed with little perfume cards. That said, I really enjoyed Coming to My Senses, by Alyssa Harad and have recommended it to many people.
My favorite niche is Carnal Flower.
Thank you. Oh and I love in the U.S. And you’re welcome to use my email address.
I live in the U.S. and my favorite book about perfume is Mandy Aftel’s “Essence and Alchemy.” Aftel does a great job of covering the history of perfume (often drawing comparisons from the tradition of alchemy) and also describes in wonderful detail how natural essences are obtained and used in perfumery. It’s a great read!
I live in the U.S., and like so many here, my favorite book is Turin and Sanchez’s book. My rabbit hole has their names at the entrance.
I am in the U.S. and my favorite perfume books are The A to Z Guide by Turin & Sanchez and also The Secret of Scent by Luca Turin.
I’m in the US, you can use my email…and Yosh is my new fav niche!
The book I love? Luca Turins…it just has soooo much! Great reference!
Hi– I live in the US and my favorite perfume book is The Essence of Perfume by Roja Dove. Thanks for the draw!
I live in the US, and my favorite niche perfume is Dzing!
I live in the U.S. and my current favorite niche perfume is Aftelier Cuir de Gardenia (even I surprised myself as it starts out feral / animalic and then it blooms in a very nice way). Oh, and I finally fulfilled my wishes for the Bois des Iles extrait.
I live in the US and you have permission to use my email…
My favorite perfume book is definitely Mandy Aftel’s Essence And Alchemy with all of the amazing artwork from older perfume books Aftel had collected and beautifully written outline of the history of perfume. My favorite perfumes (I am going through a renewed floral phase) are Strange Invisible Perfumes Urban Lily or Dimanche and Afteliers Cuir de Gardenia (or basically anything made by Atelier!).
I am very very intrigued by this book and hope to get lucky:)