Fabulous Fragrances II : A Guide to Prestige Perfumes for Women and Men

I was disappointed in this book. I was hoping to learn something. I can find the notes of perfumes at fragrantica.com so I didn't need the book for that. Most of the book struck me as flowery words meaning nothing but meant to entice you to buy the perfume. The copy read like it could have come from the perfume manufacturers. Luca Turin's book at least was really fun to read!

It was the second book and a lot of information was in the first one only. The print was too light on the pages. Would have liked more pictures of perfume bottles and less of cultivation. I ordered a different book and was more pleased with stories and information and pictures of all the perfume bottles.

This book was a good basic reference style book for the beginning fragrance enthusiast, but not a good buy for the more advanced perfumista. I at least lucked up and got a signed copy by the countess herself, though!

A bit too glossy and copy-writer-esque. The writer's choices of perfume categories caused me to raise an eyebrow here and there.

I bought her first book, "Fabulous Fragrances", which was a great book. However, I really feel like "Fabulous Fragrances II" should be called, "Fabulous Fragrances" and then state, "Revised edition" beneath it. Imagine my dismay at reading the first book and then excitedly ordering the second one, shelling out my 29.00 only to find it is the same exact book with some new things added. I was extremely dissapointed. The first book was soooooooo good. This second book has most of the same text word for word, which in my opinion makes it a revised book. THey added some more perfumes (while still including all the old stuff), and added a section for men. There are SO many other NEW perfumes that couldve been listed in place of what was in the previous book. Really dissapointing. There was NOT enough new material in this for it to be a seperate book. I hope others read this before they buy an almost identical version of the first book.

Good product

Excellent book. Well organized. I was disappointed (hence 4 stars) with the number of men's perfumes covered.. just too few compared to women's perfumes listed.

This writer knows absolutely nothing about perfumes....she is strictly a society dame; countess my ass....her writing skill is non existent....

but if you are new to fragrances or for a gift then this would be fine.I found it just a little bit too self absorbed by the author.Personal opinion only.