This book is a "short" list of all the perfumes that received 4 or 5 stars in The Guide, with added updates and commentary of new formulas and compositions. But if you don't mind spoilers, read them however you like. I did it backwards, so that kind of spoiled The Guide for me. If you're new to the world of perfumes, read this book after Perfumes: The Guide by the same authors. I mean, why else make a best-of list if not to piss people off? Seems like a petty hill to die on, but I've seen pettier. What pleasurable conniptions attend the discovery that someone has ranked Hellboy II above Casablanca or thinks Let It Be trumps Revolver! In fact, probably the best reason to make such a list is the easy satisfaction it provided of infuriating so many with so little effort. Every buff has a list: the hundred films you must see before dying, the top three cheeseburgers in the northern hemisphere, the ten most overrated paintings, the twenty most idiotic reviews in Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, etc.
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