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Chandler Burr

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

New York Times scent critic and author Chandler Burr once again delves into the glamorous, competitive world of perfume in his latest book, The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York. Burr will be at the Decatur Library on Friday, Feb. 21, at 7:15 p.m.

Did you consider a “scratch and sniff” version? We wanted a scratch and sniff, but my publisher Henry Holtz and the distributor and the bookstores – now, this is what I was told by the publisher; I do not have any first-degree information on this – they told me the bookstores would not do it. They didn’t like the idea. They were nervous about it. They thought the customers would be nervous about it.

Read full feature here.

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