Marie Redding, Senior Editor02.23.20
Michael Edwards’ specialty is getting perfumers, bottle designers, and fragrance house executives to speak openly about their fragrances—providing in-depth insights for his well-known books that have become an industry standard.
Due to tireless research and thorough investigative reporting, Edwards knows more than most about how many of the world’s most iconic fragrances were conceived.
How was Yves Saint Laurent’s Opium fragrance named? What inspired Chanel No. 5’s perfumer to use aldehydes?
These questions are answered in Edwards’ new book, Perfume Legends II — and Edwards gave fragrance industry insiders the scoop.
Edwards was the guest of honor at an event organized by the Perfumed Plume Awards for Fragrance Journalism and its founders — Lyn Leigh and Mary Ellen Lapsansky. (Photo in the slideshow above.) Celebrating the American launch of Edwards' new book, Perfumed Plume II, the event was held at the Society of Illustrators
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