Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores literature, medicine, fashion, and social practices during the rise of modern French perfume culture.

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