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The song "Scentless Apprentice" by the American grunge band Nirvana, from their 1993 album In Utero, was inspired by the novel Perfume. In an interview, lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain described the novel as one of his favourite books, which he re-read ten times and kept near him. [20]
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The Guide received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, which said, “The book brings [the authors'] exquisite connoisseurship to life in a contagious manner.Their passion for a few scents and their outrage at the others' failings make for entry after entry of hilarious, catty comments interspersed with occasional erudite, eloquent disquisitions."
An estimated 1.7–4.1% of the general population shows a contact allergic response to a mix of common perfume ingredients. [7] Although products can be labeled "fragrance-free", many still contain lesser-known fragrance chemicals that consumers may not recognize. [8] Cinnamaldehyde (cinnamic aldehyde) is a common fragrance allergen. [3] [9]
One writer argues that classic perfumes like Chanel No. 5 and YSL Opium aren't anything to turn up your nose at.
Michael Anthony Edwards (10 December 1943) is a British fragrance taxonomist, historian, and founding editor of Fragrances of the World, the largest guide to perfume classification. His lectures and writings, including the book Perfume Legends: French Feminine Fragrances , pioneered critical scholarship on the history of perfumery, while his ...
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Creed Fragrances is an Anglo-French multi-national niche perfume house, based in Paris. It is owned by the luxury group Kering and managed by its beauty division Kering Beauté. [1] The company was supposedly originally founded as a tailoring house in London, England in 1760 by James Henry Creed. [2]