Perfumes: The A-Z Guide
by Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez
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Author: Luca Turin, Tania SanchezEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-10-27
ISBN: 0143115014
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: An exercise in mastery of form and content.
Summary: 5 Stars
"Perfumes: The A-Z Guide" is above all an education in writerly style. The form of the perfume review is one that the authors truly have down, blending personal anecdote and histories of perfumes and perfumiers, with their own analyses. Irrespective of whether or not you agree with them, you never feel that you are not in safe hands.
I don't know very much about perfume, unlike other reviewers, but the distortions of nepotism seem sufficiently incidental that the book's signal-to-noise ration is still extraordinary. And I'm not sure that there is a great deal to be gained by complaining that you disagree with the guide's verdicts. The point of education is to hone your powers of discrimination, not to be told that all your received ideas are valid and can be retained intact.
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