How to Speak Scent
Colognes, perfumes and fine fragrances
$28.04
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2026
Summary
Colognes, aftershaves, perfumes, fragrances, scents: there are so many ways to describe those little bottles of fine-smelling liquid that we dab, spray and mist on ourselves every day. But our love of fragrances runs so much deeper than just buying a scent because we like the way it smells. Scent is so evocative, yet so personal; the fragrances we choose tell a story, saying much about us and how we want to be perceived - from subtle, floral notes to warming oud, our obsession with scents run…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804194140 |
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| ISBN-10: | 180419414X |
| Author: | Josephine Fairley, Lorna Mckay |
| Publisher: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 279g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 134mm x 178mm |
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Josephine Fairley
JO FAIRLEY
Jo Fairley is a journalist and author of 25 books, including The Beauty Bible series with Sarah Stacey and The Perfume Bible with Lorna McKay. Over three decades of writing about perfume for a wide range of publications, Jo has won 10 Jasmine Awards, the perfume world’s ‘Oscars’ for fragrance writing. Jo has juggled her writing with her entrepreneurial career, founding, among other businesses, Green & Black’s organic chocolate with her husband Craig Sams.
LORNA McKAY
Lorna McKay qualified as a teacher before moving into retail, spending 14 years at Harrods, where she created Harrods Own Label and became a buyer in the prestigious Beauty department. She later worked as an industry consultant, launching innovative concepts, including the first Beauty Hall at the Liberty London department store, devising a pioneering computer program to steer customers to their next scent love.
Together, Jo and Lorna
Together, Jo and Lorna established The Perfume Society in 2014 to help people navigate the perfume world via discovery boxes, events, and social and online channels. Today, both Jo and Lorna remain passionate about the fragrance world, its magical ingredients, and the perfumers who weave them into the scents that we wear and love, and about sharing that passion with longstanding perfume lovers, as well as those who are at the start of their perfume journey.
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