# Parfums

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- Book: [Parfums](https://www.bookquiver.com/philippe-claudel/parfums) ([Parfums.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/philippe-claudel/parfums.md))
- Authors: [Philippe Claudel](https://www.bookquiver.com/philippe-claudel)
- Publisher: Maclehose Press
- ISBN: 978-08-5705-272-8
- Published: 2014-10-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

From the sizzling sharpness of freshly cut garlic to the cool tang of a father's aftershave; the heady intoxication of a fumbled first kiss to the anodyne void of disinfectant and death, this is a decadently original olfactory memoir. In sixty-three elusive episodes we roam freely across the countryside of Lorraine, North-East France, from kitchen to farm to a lover's bed. Recognising the bittersweet nostalgia of a scent that slips away on the summer breeze, Claudel demonstrates again his impeccable grasp of the personal and the universal, interweaved with a rare self-deprecating charm. This is an evocative patchwork at once earthy and ethereal, erotic and heart-breaking. Claudel permits us a glimpse of moments that have driven him to delight or despair, creating through the fading aromas of the past fragments of humour, insight and quite intangible beauty.