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The Case Against Fragrance

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Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty. Then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us: other people’s perfumes and all those scented cosmetics, cleaning products and air fresheners.

On a book tour in 2015, dogged by ill health, she started wondering: what’s in fragrance? Who tests it for safety? What does it do to people? The more Grenville investigated, the more she felt this was a story that should be told. The chemicals in fragrance can be linked not only to short-term problems like headaches and asthma but to long-term ones like hormone disruption and cancer. Yet products can be released onto the market without testing. They’re regulated only by the same people who make and sell them. And the ingredients don’t even have to be named on the label.

This audiobook is based on careful research into the science of scent and the power of the fragrance industry. But, as you’d expect from an acclaimed novelist, it’s also accessible and personal. The Case Against Fragrance will make you see - and smell - the world differently.

©2018 Kate Grenville (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Career Success Motivation & Self-Improvement
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Buy it, get one for your friends and everyone else and we'll have a happier, healthier world. Really good book, interesting, well-researched and well-narrated. I've bought it as a book and also as an audio book and when I'm feeling horribly ill from someone's deodorant or perfume, at least I know I'm not the only one. Hopefully, now the word is out we can all become more aware of the effect that fragrance has on us and on other people nearby. Get it.

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Brilliant book. Very thought provoking. I hope that it will help to show those people who wear perfume that it can make others suffer. I will be making a number of changes in the products I purchase in future. Well done, Kate.

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