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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Harad, Alyssa.
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Harad, Alyssa.
Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
Perfumes industry -- United States.
Perfume -- United States.
Femininity -- United States.
Feminism -- United States.
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Coming to my senses ...
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Coming to my senses : a story of perfume, pleasure, and an unlikely bride / Alyssa Harad.
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Harad, Alyssa.
New York : Viking, 2012.
Subjects
Harad, Alyssa.
Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
Perfumes industry -- United States.
Perfume -- United States.
Femininity -- United States.
Feminism -- United States.
ISBN:
9780670023615 (hardback) : dc $25.95
0670023612 (hardback)
Description:
ix, 261 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
pt. 1. Learning how to smell. The beautiful surprise ; The librarian, the Russians, and the scent of honey ; The curator and the cowgirls -- pt 2. The problem of becoming a bride. The grandma box ; The JAR experience ; The kind of woman who wears perfume ; The perfume shower ; A kiss and a dream of white flowers -- pt. 3. Coming to my senses. Sunflowers and city light ; Breakfast at Bergdorf's ; My mother's femme.
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"Alyssa Harad always considered herself practical, earnest, and bookish. She was a proud feminist, a Birkenstock wearer, and a religious recycler; the only interests in which she came anywhere near self-indulgence were food and cooking. Until she chanced upon a blog and read a new kind of review--not of a novel or a recipe but of a perfume. How frivolous and girly, she thought at first. And yet, months later, she noticed she had begun to hoard vials of fragrance samples. Embarking on a journey that takes her from perfume galleries and private laboratories in her hometown of Austin, TX, to the glamorous perfume showrooms of NYC, Harad discovers a secret network of perfume-traders, scent sharers, botanists, and fragrance enthusiasts around the world. Through them she comes to reassess her ideas about femininity, passion, her own long-term relationship--and what her life is about"--
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Hawaii State Library
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305.42092 Harad Ha
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