Perfume: Joy, Scandal, Sin - A Cultural History of Fragrance from 1750 to the Present by Michael Freeman, Richard Stamelman

Perfume: Joy, Scandal, Sin - A Cultural History of Fragrance from 1750 to the Present

Michael Freeman, Richard Stamelman

384 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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This thought-provoking volume transports readers to France of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, beginning with Napoleon's love of perfume and the erotic importance he attached to it, through the lore and symbolism fragrance enjo...

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