If ever a book called for scratch-and-sniff inserts, this is the one. Harad works her personal story within a wider arc of perfume lore: history, chemistry, personalities, families and social ...

In “Musk and the Making of Macromolecules: Perfumes and Polymers in the History of Organic Chemistry,” author Galina Shyndriayeva demonstrates how tracing the history of perfume production ...