Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes on Translations, Spelling, Editions, Illustrations, and Previously Published Material

Introduction: Something in the Air

1. In a Violet Sillage
2. The Language of Flowers and Silent Things
3. Confused Words?
4. The Osmazome of Literature
5. Perfumed Letters
6. Smelling (of) Iris
7. Decadent Perfuming

Epilogue: Cooked Apples and Exotic Perfume

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Cheryl Krueger is an associate professor in the Department of French at the University of Virginia.

Reviews

"With its wealth of original detail and analysis and its extensive bibliography, this book will be welcomed by French cultural historians and literary scholars as well as by those working in the growing research area of scent studies." - Anne Green, King’s College London (H-France Review)