The perfect book for perfume lovers as well as connoisseurs of modern fashion and design, feminist and LGBTQ historians, and fans of vintage advertising. Scent and Subversion also looks to the future and includes interviews with scent visionaries such as odor expert and “professional provocateur” Sissel Tolaas, punk perfumer Antoine Lie, and Martynka Wawrzyniak, the artist behind “Smell Me,” the world’s first olfactory self-portrait. Scent and Subversion is lavishly illustrated with more than 100 vintage perfume ads and features essays on scent appreciation, a glossary of important perfume terms and ingredients, and tips on how to begin your own foray into vintage and contemporary perfume. Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume (Lyons Press, 2013) features descriptions of over 300 perfumes, starting with Fougère Royale (1882) and ending with Demeter’s Laundromat (2000). By playing with gender conventions, highlighting the ripe smells of the human body, or celebrating queer and louche identities, 20th-century perfume broke free from the assumptions of the prior century, and became a largely unrecognized part of the social and style revolutions of the modern era. Perfume has been - and continues to be - subversive. Take a Whiff on the Wild Side of 20th Century Perfume
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