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Paris, 1974. Radha is living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two daughters. She still grieves for the baby boy she gave up years ago, but has finally found her passion: the treasure trove of scents. When a friend's grandfather offered her a job at his parfumerie, Radha discovers she can find the perfect fragrance for any customer who walks in the door. Now she is helping to design new fragrances for clients. Her first major project takes...
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Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn't fit anyone's expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame Eva d'Orsey, Grace is drawn to uncover the identity of her mysterious benefactor. Weaving through the decades, from 1920s New York to Monte Carlo, Paris, and London, the story Grace uncovers is that of an extraordinary women who inspired one of Paris's greatest...
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Ellie's business and personal life have been flourishing in her hometown of Poppyville, California, since she opened Scents & Nonsense. She uses her very special skills to craft perfumes that almost magically ease heartache, inspire change, and bring joy--and her customers love to relax in the beautiful garden behind her shop with her corgi, Dash, and her cat, Nabokov. She even lives right next to the garden, in a compact "tiny house"--and she's excited...
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"Clementine, sometimes known as Judge, is a 72-year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the uber-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan, to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to the spice markets of Marrakesh, and finally the bordellos of Paris, where she settles down and opens a legitimate shop bottling her favorite extracts for the ladies of the cabarets. In 1941...
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When her assistant, Josie, who was dating her ex, is found dead in the enchanted garden behind her perfume shop, Elliana Allbright, a custom perfume maker whose skill with botanical essences seems almost supernatural, must weed through the clues to catch a killer.
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"Sarah Creech's "Season of the dragonflies" beguiles in the tradition of Alice Hoffman, Adriana Trigiani and Sarah Addison Allen, with a story of flowers, sisters, practical magic, old secrets and new love, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains"--
When trouble starts brewing at the family perfumery, and the unique flowers used in the perfume start dying, Lucia, the youngest daughter who left years ago to make her own way - and who has begun showing signs...
8) The lake
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The latest from Governor General's Literary Award winner Perrine Leblanc is a mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad. In between the mountains and the sea, on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, there's a village called Malabourg. The village is surrounded by all the usual features of the region: a river with wild salmon, a stretch of the national highway, and...
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Evangeline is eighteen years old when her grandmother gives her the ultimate gift, a scent she has created just for her. From the moment Eva places a drop on her neck, her entire life changes. Previously unnoticed, she becomes the object of intense desire for everyone around her. Men dance close to her; women dip their noses deep into her hair; even the cats outside her bedroom cry to be near her. Gabriel, the quiet student Eva has admired from afar,...
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille es, gracias a su prodigioso sentido del olfato, el mejor elaborador de perfumes de todos los tiempos. Pero es un ser grotesco, deforme y repulsivo a los ojos de las mujeres. Como venganza a tanta ofensa sufrida a causa de su aspecto físico, elabora un raro perfume que subyuga la voluntad de quien lo huele. Así, Jean-Baptiste consigue el favor de las damas de la alta sociedad y el dominio de los poderosos. Existe un único...
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The daughter of proud Napa Valley hoteliers, Asha “Poppy” Patel chose a different line as a Paris perfumer, gifted with a nose for fragrances and business. Until her heightened sense of smell disappears. Her career in jeopardy, her world now muted, Poppy returns home. Maybe tending to her grandmother’s massive aromatic garden, where Poppy’s gift first flowered, will bring restorative hope. But when she arrives, Poppy discovers that the land...
13) Base notes
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"In New York City everybody needs a side hustle, and perfumer Vic Fowler has developed a delicate art that has proved to be very lucrative: creating bespoke scents that evoke immersive memories-memories that, for Vic's clients, are worth killing for. But the city is expensive, and these days even artisanal murder doesn't pay the bills. When Joseph Eisner, a former client with deep pockets, offers Vic an opportunity to expand the enterprise, the money...
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In 1533, an Italian orphan with an uncanny knack for creating fragrance is plucked from poverty to become Catherine de Medici's perfumer. To repay his debt, over the years Rene le Florentine is occasionally called upon to put his vast knowledge to a darker purpose: the creation of deadly poisons used to dispatch the Queen's rivals. But it's Rene's other passion - a desire to reanimate a human breath, to bring back the lives of the two people whose...
15) The conjurer
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The vine witch volume 3
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A beguiling novel of revenge, deliverance, and a powerful sisterhood of magic by the Washington Post bestselling author of The Vine Witch and The Glamourist. Sidra didn't murder her husband. Yet even a jinni can't wish away a wrongful imprisonment. Determined to prove her innocence, she returns to her adopted home-a French village renowned for its perfume witches-with her friends Elena and Yvette by her side. Here is where Sidra's true destiny awaits,...
17) Dzikie marzenia
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Jolletta Caressa's grandmother dies taking with her the formula for an ancient perfume. Jolletta follows her grandmother's diary over Europe in search of the formula.
Joletta Catesse wraz z rodzinnym sklepem perfumeryjnym odziedzicza tajemnicę najpiękniejszego zapachu firmy. Legenda głosi, że był to ulubiony zapach Kleopatry. Niestety formuła niezwykłych perfum zaginęła, gdy jedyna osoba znająca recepturę nagle zmarła. Aby odtworzyć...
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Nikki Carrington's husband leaves her for a young woman of his own race, taking their daughter with him. After her house caughts fire she moves into an apartment complex with many separated or divorced people. There she searches to find out who she really is so that she can move on with someone else.
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Elena Rossini tiene un don. Desde hace siglos, las mujeres de su familia elaboran fragancias y se han trasmitido este conocimiento de generación en generación, ellas saben que los perfumes son un camino para llegar al corazón de las personas. Cuando Elena pierde la illusion tras un engaño amoroso, se marcha a París y en poco tiempo hace florecer su talent: rs la única capaz de crear el perfume adecuado para poder recuperar un amor perdido, para...
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"¡Una fantasía sensacional y radical! En el imperio de Aramtesh, el aroma tiene poder. Cuando ocurre un desastre y el príncipe heredero yace envenenado, las rivalidades largamente reprimidas amenazan con destruir el imperio. Depende de una pobre chica del pueblo con talento para las fragancias y el leal guardaespaldas del príncipe para encontrar un antídoto."-- provided by publisher.
"A sensational, sweeping fantasy! In the empire of Aramtesh,...
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