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Sense Of Smell Books
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Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 4.09 — 848 ratings — published 2001
Quintessentially Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 3.67 — 27 ratings — published 2010
The Perfume Lover: A Personal History of Scent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 3.45 — 273 ratings — published 2012
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 3.77 — 479 ratings — published 2007
The Scent Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 3.92 — 71,885 ratings — published 2019
A Natural History of the Senses (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,905 ratings — published 1990
Pheromones and Animal Behaviour: Communication by Smell and Taste (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 2003
Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 3.61 — 109 ratings — published
Nosy Rosie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 3.47 — 93 ratings — published 2006
Perfumes: The Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,725 ratings — published 2008
Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,716 ratings — published 2016
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 3.73 — 894 ratings — published 2006
The Perfume Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 4.00 — 42,236 ratings — published 2013
The Book of Lost Fragrances (Reincarnationist, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,739 ratings — published 2012
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,520 ratings — published 2008
Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 3.68 — 354 ratings — published 2012
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 4.04 — 547,416 ratings — published 1985
Essence of Perfume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 4.20 — 86 ratings — published 2008
Jitterbug Perfume (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 4.23 — 80,585 ratings — published 1984
Aroma (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sense-of-smell)
avg rating 4.04 — 75 ratings — published 1994
“What is it?" I asked.
"Rain," she said.
"It's too early for rain."
"That's what you think. Open the door. You'll see."
I turned off the air conditioner so that we could hear better, slid open the glass door -- and the soft thunder of rain falling onto sand curtained us in. Deaf, we would still have known it was raining: smell would have told us; the smell of dry earth watered, of dehydrated vegetation reconstituted, the smell of resurrection. The first rain in a dry land! It smells better than lilies in July, or the ocean, or the wind in sun-warmed pines, or the irrigated patch of alfalfa you reach after a long haul through dry hills. It is hard to smell that sweetness and believe in death.”
― A Matter of Time
"Rain," she said.
"It's too early for rain."
"That's what you think. Open the door. You'll see."
I turned off the air conditioner so that we could hear better, slid open the glass door -- and the soft thunder of rain falling onto sand curtained us in. Deaf, we would still have known it was raining: smell would have told us; the smell of dry earth watered, of dehydrated vegetation reconstituted, the smell of resurrection. The first rain in a dry land! It smells better than lilies in July, or the ocean, or the wind in sun-warmed pines, or the irrigated patch of alfalfa you reach after a long haul through dry hills. It is hard to smell that sweetness and believe in death.”
― A Matter of Time
“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
