Name: The Scent of Empires: Chanel no. 5 and red Moscow (en Inglés)
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Author: Karl SchlÖGel
ISBN: 9781509546596

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Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Polity Press

Autor

Karl SchlÖGel

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

220

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781509546596

N° edición

Categorías

Maquillaje, peluquería y belleza

The Scent of Empires: Chanel no. 5 and red Moscow (en Inglés)

Karl SchlÖGel (Autor) · Polity Press · Tapa Dura

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Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this remarkable book, the historian Karl Schlögel unravels the interconnected histories of two of the world’s most celebrated perfumes. In Tsarist Russia, two French perfumers – Michel Beaux and Auguste Michel – developed related fragrances honouring Catherine the Great for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, Beaux fled Russia and took the formula for his perfume with him to France, where he sought to adapt it to his new French circumstances. He presented Coco Chanel with a series of 10 fragrance samples in his laboratory and, after smelling each, she chose number five – the scent that would later go by the name Chanel No. 5. Meanwhile, as the perfume industry was being revived in Soviet Russia, Auguste Michel used his original fragrance to create Red Moscow for the tenth anniversary of the Revolution. Piecing together the intertwined histories of these two famous perfumes which shared a common origin, Schlögel tells a surprising story of power, intrigue and betrayal that offers an altogether unique perspective on the turbulent events and high politics of the twentieth century. This brilliant account of perfume and politics in twentieth-century Europe will be of interest to a wide general readership.