Simone LeFevre has two ambitions--to become one of the world's leading perfumers and to exact vengeance on the man who destroyed her father, her heritage and her heart. Her key to both is a fragrance, a potent and mysterious elixir from the 19th century that produces heady, sensual dreams powerful enough to sweep Simone into a place of forbidden pleasure in the arms of her greatest love and her most bitter enemy.