When Eva dies at the opening of the book, she leaves specific instructions to dispense a plane ticket to Grace for her travel to Paris to collect an inheritance that includes a luxurious apartment, stock portfolio and a box of cheap, glass tchotches. Grace Munroe is an unhappily married former debutante in England circa 1955. She is the both the top note and base note in the novel, to employ the perfume phrase.Įva D’Orsay works in the Warwick Hotel in New York City in 1927. In The Perfume Collector, Madame Zed launches at least one of the careers of Eva d’Orsay and also holds the secrets to Grace Munroe’s past. Thus, Madame Zed is both at the heart of and absent from The Perfume Collector. Kathleen Tessaro’s character Madame Zed in her novel The Perfume Collector is, according to Tessaro, based on “a fistful of facts” surrounding the real perfumer. Madame Zen a legendary and mysterious Russian perfumer who lived and worked in Paris, created Lanvin’s famous My Sin perfume, among others.
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