Coming to My Senses
Author: Harad, Alyssa
ISBN: 9780143123385
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 25 Jun 2013
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Honest and beautifully written-a nuanced exploration of femininity and pleasure through the enchanting world of fragrance/b>p>b>/b>/p>p>Alyssa Harad's affair with scent begins in secret, late at night, by the glow of her computer screen when she stumbles on a blog devoted to perfume. Bookish and practical, and a stranger to beauty counters, she is surprised to find herself lured into a sensual underworld of quirky characters that changes her mind about much more than perfume. Candid, elegant, and full of lush description and humor, i>Coming to My Senses/i> takes readers from a private museum of rare essences in Austin, Texas, to the glamorous fragrance showrooms of Manhattan, and finally to a homecoming in Boise, Idaho, to prepare for Harad's wedding. This deeply personal story reveals the intimate connections between scent, our senses, and the people we are and want to become./p>BR>BR>b>"It's been a long while since I've read a book so luscious. This memoir about falling in love with perfume made me want to smell i>everything/i>." -b>Celeste Ng/b>, author of i>Little Fires Eve/i>ri>ywher/i>e and i>Everything I Never Told You/i>br>br>br>"A woman, I think we can all agree, should smell like herself. But which self?"br>/b>br> Late one night near the middle of her life when all her careful plans have gone awry, Alyssa Harad stumbles across a blog devoted to reviewing perfume. She is not the kind of woman who wears perfume. But she is a reader, and the ability to describe a fragrance unfolding in the air with words seems like a magic trick. In the reviews perfume becomes a place, a person, a moment in history. Perfume becomes a story at a moment when she needs a new one. Harad follows the magical trail of scentfrom a private museum of rare essences in Austin, Texas, to the glamorous fragrance showrooms of Manhattan, and finally to a homecoming in Boise, Idaho-undoing and expanding her understanding of gender, femininity, pleasure and identity along the way.Candid, elegant, insightful, full of lush description and gentle humor, i>Coming to My Senses/i> reveals the intimate connections between our senses and our selves.
ISBN: 9780143123385
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 25 Jun 2013
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Honest and beautifully written-a nuanced exploration of femininity and pleasure through the enchanting world of fragrance/b>p>b>/b>/p>p>Alyssa Harad's affair with scent begins in secret, late at night, by the glow of her computer screen when she stumbles on a blog devoted to perfume. Bookish and practical, and a stranger to beauty counters, she is surprised to find herself lured into a sensual underworld of quirky characters that changes her mind about much more than perfume. Candid, elegant, and full of lush description and humor, i>Coming to My Senses/i> takes readers from a private museum of rare essences in Austin, Texas, to the glamorous fragrance showrooms of Manhattan, and finally to a homecoming in Boise, Idaho, to prepare for Harad's wedding. This deeply personal story reveals the intimate connections between scent, our senses, and the people we are and want to become./p>BR>BR>b>"It's been a long while since I've read a book so luscious. This memoir about falling in love with perfume made me want to smell i>everything/i>." -b>Celeste Ng/b>, author of i>Little Fires Eve/i>ri>ywher/i>e and i>Everything I Never Told You/i>br>br>br>"A woman, I think we can all agree, should smell like herself. But which self?"br>/b>br> Late one night near the middle of her life when all her careful plans have gone awry, Alyssa Harad stumbles across a blog devoted to reviewing perfume. She is not the kind of woman who wears perfume. But she is a reader, and the ability to describe a fragrance unfolding in the air with words seems like a magic trick. In the reviews perfume becomes a place, a person, a moment in history. Perfume becomes a story at a moment when she needs a new one. Harad follows the magical trail of scentfrom a private museum of rare essences in Austin, Texas, to the glamorous fragrance showrooms of Manhattan, and finally to a homecoming in Boise, Idaho-undoing and expanding her understanding of gender, femininity, pleasure and identity along the way.Candid, elegant, insightful, full of lush description and gentle humor, i>Coming to My Senses/i> reveals the intimate connections between our senses and our selves.
