Luxury and the Senses
Past, Present, and Future
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 11 December 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350064218
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 236x160x16 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 color and 12 bw illus 700
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Long description:
Luxury has long been seen as an expensive, elegant indulgence. However, the history of its relationship with the bodily senses has never been fully explored. Examining luxury from an experiential perspective, this book moves away from the traditional focus on luxury goods, marketing and promotion, and looks instead at the sensory evolution of luxury through time.
Bringing together a range of international experts in the field, Luxury and the Senses traces the history of luxury from the over-indulgent banquets of Roman antiquity to the modern swimming pools of Southern California. The book surveys the importance of sensory triggers like scent, taste and texture to our experience of luxury, while looking at questions of gender, branding and marketing through the lens of fashion and consumption.
With case studies which range from perfume making to digital technologies, the book delves into the influence of luxury brands, and the new possibilities opened by technology and virtual reality. Highlighting the emotional and sensuous aspects of creating and consuming luxury goods and services, this is essential reading for scholars of fashion, luxury studies, and brand management.
Table of Contents:
List of Plates
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Luxury and the Senses: Past, Present and Future
Yasmin K. Sekhon Dhillon
Chapter 1 - Multisensory Luxury Consumption
Yasmin K. Sekhon Dhillon
Chapter 2 - Sensory Deception and Manipulation in Ancient Aristocratic Banquets
Mike Beer (University of Exeter, UK and Open University, UK)
Chapter 3 - The Luxury of Colours
Valï¿1⁄2rie Bonnardel (University of Winchester, UK)
Chapter 4 - Senses and Triggers: A Journey Through the Senses
Ashok Ranchhod (formerly University of Southampton, UK)
Chapter 5 - Future of the Senses
Amanda Bragg-Mollison (University of Southampton, UK)
Chapter 6 - Perfumery and Luxury
Jo Norman (formerly Kingston University, UK)
Chapter 7 - The Future of Senses: The Future of Multisensory Marketing and Advertising for Luxury Brands and Markets in the Information Age
Prask Sutton
Chapter 8 - Scent Bubbleï¿1⁄2: Bridging the Gap between Luxury Fashion, Wellness and Fragrances with Wearable Personalised Sensory Experiences
Jenny Tillotson (founder of eScent)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
