The author is a scent critic for T: the New York Times Style Magazine. He took a year to follow Hermes' perfumer Jean Claude Ellena as he created a perfume and also followed Sarah Jessica Parker as she lent her name, and personal time and attention to the creation of a celebrity scent. It is qui...
This novel is a vehicle for wonderful literary insights- a veritable treasure chest of quotes, authors and notable perceptions- but beyond those I felt empty and alone, with characters who left me totally without empathy, sometimes gagging (in a literary sense) at the self-congratulation portraye...