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5
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
3/100Critics
7/100Scholars
Author:
Karl Schlögel, Jessica Spengler
Publisher:
Polity
Date:
June 1, 2021
An Eastern European history professor unravels the interconnected histories of two of the world's most celebrated perfumes: Chanel No. 5 in France and Red Moscow in Soviet Russia.
What The Reviewers Say
... [a] gripping olfactory history.
Schlögel is a knowledgeable guide through the eras covered.
Schlögel’s attempt to extract the quintessence of totalitarianism from the formulae of a pair of successful perfumes soon gets sticky.
