The perfect scent : a year inside the perfume industry in Paris and New York / Chandler Burr.

Author: Burr, Chandler, 1963-

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Henry Holt, 2008, c2007.

ISBN: 9780805080377
0805080376

Description: xxiii, 306 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject(s): Perfumes industry Popular works.
Perfumes Popular works.

Notes: Includes index.

Summary: No journalist has ever been allowed into the ultrasecretive, highly pressured process of originating a perfume. But Chandler Burr, the New York Times perfume critic, spent a year behind the scenes observing the creation of two major fragrances. Now, writing with wit and elegance, he juxtaposes the stories of the perfumes--one created by a Frenchman in Paris for an exclusive luxury-goods house, the other made in New York by actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Coty, Inc., a giant international corporation.--From publisher description.