Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bride

“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 everything.” -Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You


“A woman, I think we can all agree, should smell like herself. But which self?”

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 per...