A review by missmim
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York by Chandler Burr

4.0

YMMV on this one, depending on how much you know about the perfume industry. Since I knew zilch, this was a fascinating read and I couldn't get enough of it. From the super prestige scent-making at Hermes, to the more commercial celebrity scent-selling at Coty, it provided a really interesting, and contrasting, view of how the perfume industry works today. If you're interested in the subject, I'd definitely recommend it, despite Burr's tendency to translate French, etc. immediately after using it, and describing everyone's outfits and looks (which I appreciated, from a gossipy standpoint, but you might find distracting). I'm also reading Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez's A-Z Guide to Perfumes, and it was really amusing to compare Burr's opinions to Turin's.