Guest Post: MJ Rose and The Book of Lost Fragrances
Today I'm happy to happy to host MJ Rose, an author I've long followed on Facebook and who I greatly admire for her writing and her book marketing acumen, she is the author of eleven novels and the founder of AuthorBuzz.
Today, MJ is launching The Book of Lost Fragrances and on a blog tour introducing us to her book as well as some of the fragrances that inspired the story.
Welcome MJ!
I’ve been fascinated with lost fragrances since long before I started writing The Book of Lost Fragrances… since I found a bottle of perfume on my great grandmother’s dresser that had belonged to her mother in Russia. Here is one of those lost fragrances that stirs the senses and the imagination… (reasearched and described with the help of the perfume writer Dimitrios Dimitriadis)
CHÉRIGAN - FLEURS DE TABAC
At the height of the Art Deco age, Parfums Chérigan launched Fleurs de Tabac in 1929.
Fleurs de Tabac has a brisk citrus opening over a dry, smokey vetiver heart which is imbued with tiny star-shaped jasmine blooms and sheets of pungent cured tobacco leaf. Finally, a rich amber/vanilla base and sensual muskiness reveals itself and trails off well into the drydown. A wonderful example of the European predilection towards tobacco-inspired scents in the 20's and 30's, and one that is sadly now lost to time.
Discover the perfume inspired by The Book of Lost Fragrances
Pre-order The Book of Lost Fragrances by M.J. Rose and we’ll send you a free sample of Âmes Soeurs, the Scent of Soulmates. This exclusive fragrance, inspired by the novel, was created by Joya Studios and is not yet for sale. Joya’s Âmes Sœurs hints of Frankincense, Myrrh, Orange Blossom and Jasmine. It’s smoky uncommon finish suggests the past and the future, and lost souls reunited.
Just use one of the links at http://mjrose.com/
About
THE LOST BOOK OF FRAGRANCES:
Jac L'Etoile has always been haunted by the
past, her memories infused with the exotic scents that she grew up
surrounded by as the heir to a storied French perfume company. In order to
flee the pain of those remembrances--and of her mother's suicide--she moved to
America.
Now, fourteen years later she and her brother
have inherited the company along with it's financial problems. But when Robbie
hints at an earth-shattering discovery in the family archives and then suddenly
goes missing--leaving a dead body in his wake--Jac is plunged into a world she
thought she'd left behind.
Back in Paris to investigate her brother's
disappearance, Jac becomes haunted by the legend the House of L'Etoile has been
espousing since 1799. Is there a scent that can unlock the mystery of
reincarnation - or is it just another dream infused perfume?
The Book of Lost Fragrances fuses
history, passion, and suspense, moving from Cleopatra's Egypt and the terrors of
revolutionary France to Tibet's battle with China and the glamour of modern-day
Paris. Jac's quest for the ancient perfume someone is willing to kill for
becomes the key to understanding her own troubled past.
M.J.
Rose is a skilled writer and a remarkable storyteller. Using Cleopatra’s lost
book of fragrance formulas as a stepping stone, Rose spins a tale replete with
stunning twists and compelling characters that will keep readers turning the
pages late into the night.
About
the Author:
M.J. Rose is the international bestselling author of
eleven novels: Lip Service, In Fidelity, Flesh Tones, Sheet Music,
Lying In Bed, The Halo Effect, The Delilah
Complex, The Venus Fix, The Reincarnationist, The Memorist, and The Hypnotist. The Book of Lost Fragrances will be published in
March 2012. Rose is also the
co-author with Angela Adair Hoy of How To
Publish And Promote Online, and with Doug Clegg on Buzz Your Book.
Rose
is a founding member and board member of International Thriller Writers and the
founder of the first marketing company for authors: AuthorBuzz.com. As well as
the co-founder of Peroozal.com and the popular website BookTrib.com.
Rose
has been profiled in Time magazine,
Forbes, The New York Times, Business 2.0, Working Woman, Newsweek and New
York Magazine. Rose has
appeared on "The Today Show," Fox News, "The Jim Lehrer News
Hour" and features on her have appeared in dozens of magazines and
newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, including USA Today, Stern, L'Official,
Poets and Writers and Publishers Weekly.
M.J.
Rose lives in Connecticut with Doug Scofield, a composer, and their very
spoiled dog, Winka. To learn more about M.J. Rose and her work, visit her
website at: www.mjrose.com.
More about MJ Rose:
M.J. Rose is a Renaissance woman. She is a respected journalist and the
internationally bestselling author of twelve highly acclaimed novels. She is
the founder of AuthorBuzz, the first marketing firm for authors and one of the
founding board members of International Thriller Writers. Rose has also co-founded Peroozal.com
and the popular website BookTrib.com. She has an enduring passion for art,
mythology and esoterica, as evidenced her Museum
of Mysteries blog. In essence,
M.J. Rose is a force to be reckoned with.
Rose
is also an impeccable researcher, often blending actual history into her
spellbinding storylines. And her
latest, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES
(Atria Books; $24.00; March 13, 2012), an engrossing thriller that weaves
together reincarnation, ancient Egypt, international intrigue, and a lost book
of fragrances, is no exception. It’s already been chosen as an Indie Next Pick
for March and was recently named one of Publishers
Weekly’s Top Ten Mysteries and Thrillers. Rose will also be part of Atria
Great Mystery Bus Tour—In April, Atria Books will send four authors from three
different countries to twelve cities.
In
preparation for writing THE LOST BOOK OF
FRAGRANCES, Rose spent more than two and half years researching ancient
treatises on perfumery and alchemy, traveling to flower farms and conventions,
as well as studying with fragrance architects, famous “noses,” and niche
perfumers. Based on that research, Rose provides exclusive author notes in THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, as well a
comprehensive glossary that offers factual information about some of the
topics, locations, theories and legends she vividly weaves into her plot.
While writing, to remain in the
world of the novel, she burned incense and her favorite candles created by
Frederick Bouchardy under the brand name JOYA. When the novel was finished she
searched out Bouchardy to give him a copy of the yet to be published novel.
Bouchardy was instantly intrigued by THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES—first, as a reader, he said he was taken with the mystery and
romance of the story. In Rose’s tale, scent plays a strong role as it pertains
to memory. Bouchardy, who creates using oils and other classic ingredients,
said this notion spoke to him as a designer and producer of fragrances. The
ancient fictional fragrance at the heart of Rose’s novel is called Âmes Soeurs,
which means “Soul Mates” in French. Inspired by the book, Bouchardy has brought
the perfume to life with his version: Âmes
Soeurs, The Scent of Soul Mates. Bouchardy interpreted Rose’s imagined
fragrance with notes of Frankincense, Myrrh, Orange Blossom, and Jasmine.
It
Wasn’t Always Easy—getting published has been an adventure for M.J. Rose who
self-published her first novel, Lip
Service late in 1998 after several traditional publishers didn't know how
to position or market it since it didn't fit into any one genre. Frustrated,
but curious and convinced that because of her advertising background she could
figure out the marketing, Rose set up a web site where readers could download
her book for $9.95 and began to seriously market the novel on the Internet. After
selling over 2,500 copies (in both electronic and trade paper format) Lip Service became the first e-book and
the first self-published novel discovered online. It was chosen by the Literary
Guild/Doubleday Book Club and published by a mainstream New York publishing
house. The rest, as they say, is history… 
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