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Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume
Lyons Press
November 2013
On Sale: November 5, 2013
288 pages
ISBN: 0762784385
EAN: 9780762784387
Kindle: B00FLCK25U
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Non-Fiction
Let Scent and Subversion take you for a whiff on
the wild side of 20th century perfume.
Perfume
has been -- and continues to be -- subversive. By playing
with gender conventions, highlighting the ripe smells of the
human body, or celebrating queer and louche identities,
20th-century perfume broke free from the assumptions of the
prior century, and became a largely unrecognized part of the
social and style revolutions of the modern era.
In
Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative
Perfume, Barbara Herman continues her irreverent,
poetic, and often humorous analysis of vintage perfumes and
perfume ads that she began on her popular blog
YesterdaysPerfume.com. The book features descriptions of
over 300 perfumes, starting with Fougère Royale (1882) and
ending with Demeter's Laundromat (2000).
Lavishly
illustrated with more than 100 vintage perfume ads, it will
also regale you with essays on scent appreciation, a
glossary of important perfume terms and ingredients, and
tips on how to begin your own foray into vintage and
contemporary perfume. Herman also looks to the future
through interviews with scent visionaries such as odor
expert and "professional provocateur" Sissel Tolaas, punk
perfumer Antoine Lie, and Martynka Wawrzyniak, the artist
behind "Smell Me," the world's first olfactory
self-portrait.
The perfect book for perfume
aficionados (aka "perfumistas") as well as connoisseurs of
modern fashion and design, feminist and LGBTQ historians,
and fans of vintage advertising
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