Perfume : a century of scents / Lizzie Ostrom.
- Ostrom, Lizzie
- Date:
- 2015
- Books
About this work
Description
Discover the history behind signature scents and the visionaries who conceived them. Ostrom explores the trends and crazes that have shaped the way we use-- and think of-- perfume. You'll explore the wild campaigns that launched them, and discover that every perfume has a tale to tell.
Publication/Creation
London : Hutchinson, 2015.
Physical description
374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contributors
Contents
A century of scents: an introduction -- The bountiful belle époque: 1900-1909 -- The theatrical teens: 1910-1919 -- The roaring twenties: 1920-1929 -- The threatening thirties: 1930-1939 -- The insubordinate forties: 1940-1949 -- The elegant fifties: 1950-1959 -- The swinging sixties: 1960-1969 -- The spangly seventies: 1970-1979 -- The egotistical eighties: 1980-1989 -- The naughty ninties: 1990-1999 -- A new century.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJKM.AA9Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780091954536
- 0091954533