Coming to My Senses

<b>It's been a long while since I've read a book so luscious. This memoir about falling in love with perfume made me want to smell <i>everything</i>. -<b>Celeste Ng</b> author of <i>Little Fires Eve</i>r<i>ywher</i>e and <i>Everything I Never Told You</i> <p/>A woman I think we can all agree should smell like herself. But which self? <br></b><br> Late one night near the middle of her life when all her careful plans have gone awry Alyssa Harad stumbles across a blog devoted to reviewing perfume. She is not the kind of woman who wears perfume. But she is a reader and the ability to describe a fragrance unfolding in the air with words seems like a magic trick. In the reviews perfume becomes a place a person a moment in history. Perfume becomes a story at a moment when she needs a new one. Harad follows the magical trail of scent from a private museum of rare essences in Austin Texas to the glamorous fragrance showrooms of Manhattan and finally to a homecoming in Boise Idaho--undoing and expanding her understanding of gender femininity pleasure and identity along the way. Candid elegant insightful full of lush description and gentle humor <i>Coming to My Senses</i> reveals the intimate connections between our senses and our selves.