The perfect scent : a year inside the perfume industry in Paris and New York / Chandler Burr.

1st ed.

9780805080377
0805080376

New York : Henry Holt, 2008, c2007.

English

xxiii, 306 p. ; 25 cm.

HD9999.P3932 B87 2008

338.7/66854

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.--From publisher description.

Includes index.

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