The Perfume Collector

Kathleen Tessaro

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780007419838
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

A secret history of scent, memory and desire from the Sunday Times bestselling author of ELEGANCE and THE DEBUTANTE.

One letter will turn newly-married Grace Munroe's life upside down:
'Our firm is handling the estate of the deceased Mrs Eva D'Orsey and it is our duty to inform you that you are named as the chief beneficiary in her will.'

So begins a journey which leads Grace through the streets of Paris and into the seductive world of perfumers and their muses. An abandoned perfume shop on the Left Bank will lead her to unravel the heartbreaking story of her mysterious benefactor, an extraordinary woman who bewitched high society in 1920s New York and Paris.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Paris, Winter 1954
• London, Spring 1955
• New York City, 1927
• Paris, Spring, 1955
• New York, 1927
• Paris, Spring, 1955
• New York, 1927
• Paris, Spring, 1955
• New York, 1927
• Paris, Spring, 1955
• New York, 1927
• Paris, Spring, 1955
• New York, 1927
• Paris, Spring, 1955
• New York, 1927
• Paris, Spring, 1955
• New York, 1927
• Paris, Spring, 1955
• Hôtel Hermitage, Monte Carlo, 1932
• Paris, Spring, 1955
• Crawley, West London, 1928
• Paris, Spring, 1955
• West Challow, Oxfordshire, England, 1935
• Paris, Spring, 1955
• Paris, September 1942, during the Nazi occupation
• Paris, Spring, 1955
• Paris, Winter, 1954
• Acknowledgements
• Keep Reading – Rare Objects
• Also by Kathleen Tessaro
• About the Publisher