Book Review: A Perfumer’s Secret, Adria J. Cimino

The basic story line is that a professional perfumer in New York finds out that she has an inheritance from a relative she doesn’t remember in France.  Zoe travels to France and finds out that she has an entire family that her French mother never mentioned.  Since her mother is dead, she doesn’t have the answers to many questions and goes in search of missing pieces of her mother’s life.  The common thread of all the characters is trying to find Zoe’s dead mother’s special perfume formula, which has been stolen multiple times, or possibly have enough “nose” to reproduce it.

I didn’t care for any of the characters in this book, so I didn’t care how their stories ended.  I read through the book because I cared more about the missing formula and the recreation of the perfume.  The characters were all mean, petty, and self-absorbed.  The quality of the writing wasn’t good enough for me to try a different title from this author.

This book is only for die-hard lovers of chick-lit.

This book WILL BE PUBLISHED in May 2016.