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American Legends

THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN FRAGRANCES

American Legends is the long-awaited companion to Perfume Legends,
the cult book in which French perfumers spoke openly for the first
time about their work and the sources of their inspiration. “There is
no book like it,” stated Edmond Roudnitska, the celebrated perfumer.
Now, in American Legends, Michael Edwards documents the evolution,
richness and sheer originality of American fragrances from Elizabeth
Arden’s Blue Grass (1934) to Le Labo’s Santal 33 (2011). The result is
living history, told through the words of the creators behind forty
legendary American perfumes. Michael will present American Legends
in New york at the Fragrance Foundation Award Nomination luncheon
on April 11 ; to the Fashion Institute of Technology on April 15 ; and
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to the American Society of Perfumers on April 18 . He will present the
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book to the Fragrance Foundation in London on May 16 and then in
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Geneva, on June 25 , at the World Perfumery Congress. The book will
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be available from the April 9 on fragrancesoftheworld.com
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michael edwards is the well-known

founding editor of ‘Fragrances of
the world’, the authoritative guide
to perfume classification.

during a career spanning more than
forty years, he and his team have classified
and matched over 50,000 fragrances,

family by family, scent by scent.
The history of modern fragrances
fascinates michael. he is the author

of ‘perfume Legends II’, the seminal

American Legends book that traces the evolution
ISBN: 978-0-6454839-0-1
308 pages of French fragrances.
23 x 3 x 30.5 cm
www.fragrancesoftheworld.com/AmericanLegends For the first time, perfumers spoke

50 openly about their work and
the sources of their inspiration.