The latest release in M.J.’s Reincarnationist series, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, is ripe with sensual references to perfume and M.J. has done significant research into the mysteries of scent.

 

…And so, she is touring the blogosphere leaving a gorgeous trail of guest posts about lost fragrances.

 

Tune in here for blog tour updates and links to her delicious posts. Your senses will thank you!

 

On that note (pun intended), here’s an intro to M.J.’s Guest Post at Life in the Thumb on Roget et Gallet’s Vera Violetta

 

(I don’t know about you but I think there is something particularly spectacular about the scent of violets. Have you ever tasted those violet flavored candies from Choward’s? They have been a favorite of mine since childhood. I wonder if M.J. likes them? They are one of those love them or hate them sort of items.)

 

 

Long-standing perfume and toiletries giants Roget et Gallet launched Vera Violette in 1892 at the height of La Belle Époque… it was also the first violet perfume to combine natural violet leaf oil and synthetic alpha and beta ionones. Vera Violetta was released as a parfum essence in highly concentrated form. Its pretty, saccharine opening of violets veil a deeper, huskier core. A swelling herbaceous accord swims beneath the surface…


For her complete post about Vera Violetta click here.

 

THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES comes out on March 13 from Atria Publishing! I’ve read the book and it’s beautiful and impossible to put down. You will be spellbound as I was.

 

More goodies:

 

Guest Post at Workaday Reads
Guest Post at Mrs. Q Book Addict
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