Book Information
Book: Le Parfum, Aru Kankaku: Jidai o Irodoru Kaori to Muse-tachi (Japanese title, translated here as Le Parfum, One of the Senses: Fragrances and Muses That Color the Ages)
(Original title: L’un des sens. Le Parfum au XXeme siecle)
Authors: Marie-Christine Grasse, Élisabeth de Feydeau, Freddy Ghozland
Translation and supervision: Yumi Jibiki
Publication: First edition, 2001 (Japanese translation: 2015)
Publisher: Fragrance Journal
This book is a fruit. A fragrant fruit born of abundant talent across the centuries and ripened beneath the sun.
This book is a flower. There has been a great blossoming from the handiwork of artisans into an industry whose greatest pleasures everyone can enjoy. Perfume overflows and spreads, as though to envelop all of society.
From Le Parfum
Book Review
For each year from 1900 to 2011, this book introduces ① representative perfumes, ② events of the time, ③ the perfume trends of the time, and ④ the muses who were prominent then. This work lets you learn about perfume by exploring the entire period both across time and across themes; I can only call it an obsessively detailed, superbly made book. A world of perfume that you can study alongside world history: I want a copy at home.
This book is a fusion. The three perspectives of three experts come together to place the miracle of perfume upon an altar.
This book is alchemy. Art, economics, culture, scholarly inquiry, and changing mentalities melt into one another.
This book is a sense. The naked sensation of the desire to be loved, an incandescent sense of smell: it moves our hearts profoundly.
From Le Parfum
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