One of my guilty pleasures is fragrance. I say guilty because I am often drawn to scents that are expensive or hard to find so I go to ridiculous lengths to acquire them.
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If you read the previous post about my unremarkable quirks you’ll remember I have a penchant for instruction manuals. It’s a strange fascination I know but I’m funny like that. I’m also a die-hard fragrance junkie. Florals, woods, citrus – you name it, if it’s appealingly smelly then I’m all over it.
The latest tome to land on my desk is Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez. Touted as the “definitive guide to perfume,” it’s actually little more than a few tidbits of perfume history and FAQs served up with a healthy dose of snark in the form of expert reviews. My main beef with the book is that the reviews, although often amusing, leave me feeling gypped.
Case in point:
p. 199 Individuel (Mont Blanc)
A laundry-soap formula, apparently for individuals who can’t yet afford the Mont Blanc pens.
Um...cute.
I’m not familiar with this scent, and after reading this I’m still not. What I would like to know, however, is stuff like what its notes are, dry-down, history, etc.
Truth be told I’ve gotten more valuable information on the blogs, most notably Now Smell This or Blogdorf Goodman.
Another minus: define “definitive” – some of my fave scents are nowhere to be found:
Kai,
Ineke After My Own Heart,or
Profumum Ichnusa.
Granted, these aren’t blockbuster scents, but they’re not exactly rare either.
Having said that I do think it’s a fun read, maybe in small doses, and taken with a grain of salt.
Buy it on Amazon.
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