2024/067: The Perfume Collector — Katherine Tessaro

2024/067: The Perfume Collector — Katherine Tessaro

...perfumers are always attempting to capture scents that remind us of certain places, people, moments. It’s the great challenge, to capture not only a true scent but one that recalls entire experience. [p. 191]

Grace Monroe doesn't fit well into her new role as the wife of a businessman in 1950s London. When she receives a letter telling her she's inherited a flat in Paris (not to mention a substantial share portfolio) she jumps at the chance to escape for a while: but who was Eva d'Orsey, and why would she bequeath anything to Grace? The puzzle takes us from Jazz Age New York to Monte Carlo, to wartime Paris and rural Oxfordshire, and to the flat of a mysterious woman known as Madam Zed, once a famous perfumier.

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