Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez are experts in the world of scent. Turin, a renowned scientist, and Sanchez, a longtime perfume critic, have spent years sniffing the world's most elegant and beautiful--as well as some truly terrible--perfumes. In Perfumes: The Guide, they combine their talents and experience to review more than twelve hundred fragrances, separating the divine from the good from the monumentally awful. Through witty, irreverent, and illuminating prose, the reviews in Perfumes not only provide consumers with an essential guide to shopping for fragrance, but also make for a unique reading experience.

INTRODUCTION TO PERFUME CRITICISM

  How to Connect Your Nose to Your Brain

FEMININE FRAGRANCE

  Beauty and the Bees

  The Classical and the Romantic

MASCULINE FRAGRANCE

  Masculine Elegance and What It Smells Like

  The Wasteland

CHEMISTRY AND ART

  A Brief History of Perfume

ANSWERS TO  FREQUENTLY ASKED  QUESTIONS

PERFUME  REVIEWS

GLOSSARY  OF  MATERIALS AND  TERMS

TOP TEN LISTS

  Best Feminines

  Best Masculines

  Best Feminines for Men

  Best Masculines for Women

  Best Florals

  Best Chypres

  Best Orientals

  Best Quiet Fragrances

  Best Loud Fragrances

NOEX OF STAR RATINGS