“All our successful perfumes,” said Parid perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain, “have two notes – vanilla and an animal scent. In short, they are aphrodisiacs.”
The chairman of International Flavors and Fragrances (a multi-million dollar company) agrees.
“Our business,” he has said,” is basically sex and hunger.”
The Sex Life of Food: When Body and Soul Meet to Eat, Bunny Crumpacker
2006 Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press
Illustration: Another Kiss Lura Astor
