|
Perfumes: The Guide Posters
Photos Art
Search for Posters Art Prints, photos and get
results from all the many categories from Amazon including
books, videos, dvds, toys, video games, and more.
|
|
|
Posters Art
Prints Photos collectables |
|
|
|
|
|
|
If for some reason you can't find what the
poster or art print your looking for try using the search boxes
below
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
List Price: $27.95Price: $6.38 You Save: $21.57 (77%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Now!
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 668.54
Graphics Memory Size: Bargain Price
Maximum Color Depth: Viking Adult
Metal Type: Viking Adult
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 400
Total External Bays Free: April 10, 2008
Total Firewire Ports: Viking Adult
Viking Adult
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
The first book of its kind: a definitive guide to the world of perfume
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.
Perfumes features introductions to women's and men's fragrances and an informative "frequently asked questions" section including:
What is the difference between eau de toilette and perfume?
How long can I keep perfume before it goes bad?
What's better: splash bottles or spray atomizers?
What are perfumes made of?
Should I change my fragrance each season?
Perfumes: The Guide is an authoritative, one-of-a-kind book that will do for fragrance what Robert Parker's books have done for wine. Beautifully designed and elegantly illustrated, this book will be the perfect gift for collectors and anyone who's ever had an interest in the fascinating subject of perfume.
Picking a Perfect Perfume
 For Perfumes: The Guide, Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez tested nearly 1,500 fragrances--some glorious, some foul. Here they offer some humble advice on finding something worth loving among the stinkers.
1. Smell top to bottom
Perfumes usually unfold in three (often very different) stages: the sparkling first few minutes are the fragrance's top note, followed by its true personality, known as the heart note, and ending with the base note, aka the drydown, hours later. Something you love at the counter you may loathe by the parking lot. We recommend top-to-bottom tests on skin and on paper, since some scents that disappoint on the heat of skin may shine on your shirtsleeve.
2. Write it down
Bring a pen to write names on paper test strips, so you're not in anguish hours later, trying to recall which is the third scent from the left that transports you to Shangri-La. Keep a cheap, possibly extremely trashy paperback on hand, so you can store strips between pages to keep them separate.
3. Rest your nose
Noses tune out, which is why you can smell your friends' homes but not your own. Smell no more than five scents per day on paper strips and try on only the best one or two, to keep your nose reliable.
4. Check the radiance
To get a good sense of how the perfume will smell to other people as you walk past, try spraying a test strip and leaving it in the room while you step out for a bit. Come back fifteen minutes later and breathe in: that's the radiance.
Product Description:
Pompous names, bizarre ads, hundreds of new scents a year-the multibillion-dollar business of fragrance has long resisted understanding. At last the first critical-and critically acclaimed-guide to perfume illuminates the mysteries of this secretive industry. Lifelong perfume fanatics Luca Turin (best known as the subject of Chandler Burr's The Emperor of Scent) and Tania Sanchez exalt, wisecrack, and scold through their reviews with passion, eloquence, and erudition, making this book a must-have for anyone looking for a brilliant fragrance-or just a brilliant read.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez have written what is undoubtedly the definitive guide to perfumes. Thorough, informative, well written and inviting, these two have charted the domain of fine scents and have left a detailed map of it. With artistic finesse and scientific knowledge, they offer up reviews of some 1,800 perfumes. Sometimes favorable ("a masterpiece," "luscious and utterly wonderful," etc.), sometimes not ("utterly unremarkable," "vile, cheap," etc.), their starred reviews (scale: 5 stars, ... Read More
Rating: -
I chose the seller that I purchased this book from by ratings. This was a very smooth transaction, and the item was as promised and shipped quickly. Thank you
Rating: -
I bought this book for my best friend for her birthday...I had never heard of it before but I thought it was cute. I wouldn't say it is necessarily easy to come to a clear decision about perfumes overall but it is great for analyzing specific perfumes...Basically I wouldn't recommend going to this book without a perfume in mind. But it is a great book that she is really enjoying!
Rating: -
My father, who wore Old Spice when I was a kid but doesn't own a single bottle of perfume, sat down and read through this for a full hour, just picking out the 1-star reviews for amusement... It's also fun to see what two 'professional' perfume critics think of YOUR favorites! You'll find top sellers with bad ratings (e.g. Bright Crystal -1 star) and outstanding ratings (e.g., Cool Water - 5-stars). There's a surprise on every page. If you have a teenager interested in perfume or science, a book like ... Read More
Rating: -
This is, in my opinion, the absolutely best perfume guide. Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez review perfumes in a manner unlike any other. Their descriptions make use of all the senses to describe what is would otherwide be solely a very personal olfactory experience. They confirm what I have always suspected: that some very popular perfumes are overrated and that the "nose" should be educated much as the palate for tasting fine wines. Makes for quite enjoyable reading.
|
