Perfume

Lizzie Ostrom

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781681772899
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Popular Culture in Art

Join Lizzie Ostrom on an olfactory adventure as she explores the trends and crazes that have shaped the way we've spritzed. One hundred perfumes and scents in all their fragrant glory reveal a fascinating social history of the past century. From the belle epoque through the swinging sixties, to the naughty nineties and beyond, Ostrom brings intelligence and wit to this most ravishing of subjects.There was the patriotic impact of English Lavender during World War I and perfumes that captured the Egyptomania of the 1920s. Estee Lauder created "Youth Dew" and with it, distilled the essence of 1950's suburbia. Patchouli oil—the "anti-perfume" of the 1960s—was sure to keep money out of the hands of corporations and "the man." And who could forget the fervor created by the grunge androgyny of CK One? Scent is truly the passport to memory, making Perfume both a lush treat and an insightful examination of the twentieth century through the most mysterious of the five sense.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• A Century of Scents: An Introduction
• The Bountiful Belle Époque: 1900–1909
• The Theatrical Teens: 1910–1919
• The Roaring Twenties: 1920–1929
• The Threatening Thirties: 1930–1939
• The Insubordinate Forties: 1940–1949
• The Elegant Fifties: 1950–1959
• The Swinging Sixties: 1960–1969
• The Spangly Seventies: 1970–1979
• The Egotistical Eighties: 1980–1989
• The Naughty Nineties: 1990–1999
• A New Century
• Acknowledgements
• Notes and Select Bibliography
• Further Reading
• Index
• Copyright