perfumes

Paris, 1974. Radha is now thirty-two and living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two daughters. She still grieves for the baby boy she gave up years ago, when she was only a child herself, but she loves being a mother to her daughters, and she's finally found her passion-the treasure trove of scents. When her friend's grandfather offered her a job at his parfumerie, she quickly discovered she had a talent-she could find the perfect fragrance for any customer who walked in the door. Now, ten years later, she's working for a master perfumer, helping to design completely new fragrances for clients and building her career one scent at a time. She only wishes Pierre could understand her need to work. She feels his frustration, but she can't give up this thing that drives her. Tasked with her first major project, Radha travels to India, where she enlists the help of her sister, Lakshmi, and the courtesans of Agra-women who use the power of fragrance to seduce, tease and entice. She's on the cusp of a breakthrough when she finds out the son she never told her husband about is heading to Paris to find her-upending her carefully managed world and threatening to destroy a vulnerable marriage.

In the old villa it smells strange - after a thousand things at the same time. It's the first thing Luzie notices about her new home. But the smells lead nowhere and the key Luzie finds under a floorboard does not fit into any lock. Is there a hidden room in the villa? Together with her little brother Benno and the neighbor boy Mats, Luzie goes on a search. As they enter the hidden part of the villa, the children can hardly believe their eyes: on floor-to-ceiling shelves, countless scent bottles line up in which it shimmers and bubbles! But in the bottles there are not only nice surprises, but also a lot of dangers. Especially a bottle would have been better kept closed forever...

"Piglette can be a bit particular by her siblings' standards. She always wants everything to be perfect. While her many brothers and sisters like rolling in the mud, Piglette prefers pampering in a mud bath. While her siblings eat slop, Piglette prefers pastries. But what she's most passionate about is flowers. She loves to smell the lilies and lilacs in the pasture. So Piglette decides her precise nose is destined for the perfume shops of Paris! But Piglette soon realizes that there's nothing more precious than the pleasant scents of home, and she finds a way to bring a little Parisian perfection back where she belongs"--Publisher.

"In the Aramtesh Empire scent is all important, and seventeen-year-old Rakel has a way with perfumes which she hopes to use to delay her father's inevitable death; Ash is a member of the imperial bodyguard, assigned to the crown prince Nisai's bodyguard; now they are all brought together on a caravan to an outer province, seeking a rare flower that can cure the poisoned emperor--but when Nisai himself is poisoned Rakel and Ash smell like the chief suspects, and they must search out the answers together before the imperial army hunts them down"--Provided by publisher.

"When Andy Whiffler--aka Super Schnoz--first smells Strange, the world's most famous, celebrated, and mysterious perfume of all time, he falls in love. Strange's recipe is a highly guarded secret, but all Andy has to do is take one whiff and he instantly recognizes every ingredient in the mixture--except one"--Jacket flap.

Chronicles the history of perfume and describes the impact it has had on human culture, society, and art from its introduction in eighteenth-century France through the early years of the twenty-first century.

Chandler Burr, the "New York Times" perfume critic who spent a year behind the scenes observing the creation of two major fragrances, 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.

When Hannah Montana, a.k.a. Miley Stewart, decides to be a spokesperson for a new perfume, she quickly realizes that she is allergic to it, and then she hires her brother Jackson as her new assistant after accidentally getting him fired.