The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro

March 20, 2022 Novels

Download The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro PDF novel free. The Perfume Collector is a crackling, beautifully paced story that weaves the world of fragrance into the lives of two vibrant women in a way few have experienced.

Description of The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro

“The Perfume Collector” is a remarkable novel about secrets, desire, memory, passion, and possibility. Kathleen Tessaro is the author of this novel. She is the author of Elegance, Innocence, The Flirt, and The Debutante. Her novel “The Perfume Collector” alternates stories from the perspective of Grace Monroe, young upper-class London wife of the 1950’s and a poor young orphan Eva D’Orsey, originally from France, whose story plays out beginning in the 1920’s. The fates of these two are connected when Grace discovers she has been named the sole heir of Eva, recently deceased.

The fact that Grace has never heard of Eva provides an intriguing mystery. The switching of settings, historical periods and society perspectives makes for a very entertaining story, especially for those fascinated as I am by tales of Europe in the years leading up to the Second World War. Lyrical descriptions of perfumes and the process of creating them add almost a spiritual element to the novel. It certainly made us think about the world of fragrance in a whole new light.