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Paperback Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France Book

ISBN: 1487546564

ISBN13: 9781487546564

Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France

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Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France's nineteenth-century literature has gained praise for its memorable evocation of odours. As French perfume was industrialized, democratized, cosmeticized, and feminized in the nineteenth century, stories of fragrant scent trails aligned perfume with toxic behaviour and viewed a woman's scent as something...

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