{"title": "Cultures of Perfume: Scents That Shaped History", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/cultures-perfume-scents-shaped-history", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/cultural-history"], "description": "A book event at a bookstore celebrating the new title 'Cultures of Perfume: Scents That Shaped History', a richly illustrated survey of the history and origins behind the world's most well known scents. Author Saskia Wilson-Brown, who founded the Los Angeles-based Institute for Art and Olfaction, will be in conversation with Rachel Syme, followed by a signing. Her book tells the story of smell and humanity's fascination with perfume through an illustrated field guide to 36 distinct scent notes, blending anecdotes, historical research and folk knowledge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/cultures-of-perfume-scents-that-shaped-history-55425/", "official_url": "https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/cultures-perfume-scents-shaped-history", "image": "https://noky.io/images/606c2fef95314e6d46f234e3777fe19b7b3260a9017381b3553d66acd5469fa6-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Dosed? 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The book traces the two collaborators' separate paths through psychedelic experimentation, from 1970s French communes to contemporary cannabutter cuisine, reflecting on love, loss, aging and consciousness. 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Author Anna Hezel, a food journalist, talks with Christine Sahadi Whelan, cookbook author and co-owner and culinary director of Sahadi's. 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Author James Cahill will be in conversation with Patrick Monahan, followed by a signing. The book weaves together David Hockney's discovery of Los Angeles with the story of Betty Freeman, the collector he painted in 'Beverly Hills Housewife' (1966-67), moving between art history and anecdote.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-beverly-hills-housewife-55427/", "official_url": "https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/beverly-hills-housewife", "image": "https://noky.io/images/faf056c38c2bdb24978fc26ba318c58f95ecbd6d040caa2608073a03262fa52d-600.webp"}]}