📚 Perfumes

Books with perfumes on their catalogue record, first published between 1775 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject perfumes in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,078 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Odorographia	John Charles Sawer	1890	16
	The Emperor of Scent	Chandler Burr	2002	11
	Essence and Alchemy	Mandy Aftel	2001	10
	The complete distiller	Ambrose Cooper	1797	9
	The scented garden	Eleanour Sinclair Rohde	1900	9
	The book of perfumes	Eugene Rimmel	1865	8
	Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps	Poucher, W. A.	1975	8
	The complete book of incense, oils & brews	Scott Cunningham	1986	7
	The Secret of Scent	Luca Turin	2006	7
	Book of Perfumes	Eugene Rimmel	1867	6
	Perfumes and their preparation	George William Askinson	1890	6
	Perfumes, cosmetics, and soaps	Poucher, W. A.	1936	6
	Understanding the Marketing Exceptionality of Prestige Perfumes	Nithda Horoszko	2018	6
	Toilette de Flore	Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz	1775	5
	Perfumery and kindred arts	R. S. Cristiani	1877	5
	The essence of beauty	Aytoun Ellis	1960	5
	Perfumes	Luca Turin	2008	5
	Perfume	Jean-Claude Ellena	2009	5
	Perfume	Lizzie Ostrom	2015	5
	Perfumery, its manufacture and use	Campbell Morfit	1853	4
	Manuale del profumiere ...	Antonio Rossi	1902	4
	The mystery and lure of perfume	C. J. S. Thompson	1927	4
	Praktikum des modernen Parfümeurs	Paul Jellinek	1949	4
	Rose recipes from olden times	Eleanour Sinclair Rohde	1973	4
	Perfume	Cathy Newman	1998	4
	Good Gifts from the Home	Kelly Reno	2000	4
	The art of perfumery, and the methods of obtaining the odors of plants	G. W. Septimus Piesse	1856	3
	The science and art of perfumery	Edward Sagarin	1945	3
	Monographs on fragrance raw materials	D. L. J. Opdyke	1979	3
	Cosmetics, fragrances and flavors	Louis Appell	1982	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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