Coming to my senses, a story of perfume, pleasure, and an unlikely bride, Alyssa Harad
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Coming to my senses, a story of perfume, pleasure, and an unlikely bride, Alyssa Harad
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-259)
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autobiography
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Coming to my senses
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Alyssa Harad
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a story of perfume, pleasure, and an unlikely bride
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"Alyssa Harad always considered herself practical, earnest, and bookish. She was a proud feminist, a Birkenstock wearer, and a religious recycler; the only interests in which she came anywhere near self-indulgence were food and cooking. Until she chanced upon a blog and read a new kind of review--not of a novel or a recipe but of a perfume. How frivolous and girly, she thought at first. And yet, months later, she noticed she had begun to hoard vials of fragrance samples. Embarking on a journey that takes her from perfume galleries and private laboratories in her hometown of Austin, TX, to the glamorous perfume showrooms of NYC, Harad discovers a secret network of perfume-traders, scent sharers, botanists, and fragrance enthusiasts around the world. Through them she comes to reassess her ideas about femininity, passion, her own long-term relationship--and what her life is about"--, Provided by publisher
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