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'Feydeau's descriptions of Versailles Palace's obsessions with coiffure, fashion, perfume and cosmetics are alluring.' - Daily Telegraph 'Rhapsodic and piquant... full of information' -The New York Review of Books THE WASHINGTON TIMES 'De Feydeau's lively account gives the reader an additional twist on the life and times of Marie Antoinette and her influence on two of France's continuing major industries-fashion and scent.' '
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Under the blinding sun, the streets and alleyways of Montpellier smell of citron and bergamot orange. Read the first page
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A Scented Palace by DeFeydeau
28 Jun 2007
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This is an excellent book, with amazing research and insights that I have seen nowhere else in books about this period. You get such a feel for what is going on that it is like you are part of the "in-crowd" of the day. You also get a feel of what the people were like at a time when there was no indoor plumbing or sanitation and smells had to be disguised (like the animal parts that were thrown on the lawn from the kitchen). Plus it is easy to read and Ms. De Feydeau doesn't try to analyze anyone like most writers of this period do, she just puts down the where and when and what happened in a pleasant writing style. Nice....
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Heady romance and secret formulae
9 Aug 2007
Format:Hardcover
Intelligent, clear and elegant, A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer is a gorgeous book awash with floral seduction and midsummer delights. The author, Elisabeth de Feydeau, holds a Phd in the history of perfume and is a professor of the Versailles School of Perfumers. She received the Prix Guerlain for this work.
Adoring fans of Marie Antoinette will sip the sweet intimacy in tidbits such as: "The nobility wore only the most refined perfumes; there were marquises in a cloud of amber, young dandies smelling of cyprus, magistrates wearing enough musk to pass for weasels. Moralists denounced this riot of scents, but those who coveted the perfumes, make-up, unguents and powder scarcely paid them any attention." A glorious read, that page by page, releases every note of perfume.
Adoring fans of Marie Antoinette will sip the sweet intimacy in tidbits such as: "The nobility wore only the most refined perfumes; there were marquises in a cloud of amber, young dandies smelling of cyprus, magistrates wearing enough musk to pass for weasels. Moralists denounced this riot of scents, but those who coveted the perfumes, make-up, unguents and powder scarcely paid them any attention." A glorious read, that page by page, releases every note of perfume.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
interesting perpective of the French Revolution
11 Jan 2007
Format:Hardcover
This book provides a very interesting perspective of the French Revolution from someone close to Marie Antoinette. I truly enjoyed reading it. The only disappointment is that the 'recipes' aren't truly recipes but a description of how some of the essential oils were garnered.
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