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9. Perfume

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The Perfumes of the 20th Century

Barbara Herman is the creative director of aris parfum and the author of the book scent and subversion. She sniffed her way through the 20th century to find out what perfume used to smell like. Her favorite perfumes were from the 1920s 30s and 40s when women wore more 'funky' scents such as amber-green, whale vomit and musk.

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