Essence and Alchemy: A Book of Perfume. Mandy Aftel

Essence and Alchemy: A Book of Perfume



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Essence and Alchemy: A Book of Perfume Mandy Aftel ebook
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page: 272
ISBN: 9781429936125

An artisan perfumer reveals a lost art and its mysterious, sensual history. For centuries, people have taken what seems to be an instinctive pleasure in rubbing scents into their skin. Perfume has helped them to pray, to heal, and to make love. And as long as there has been perfume, there have been perfumers, or rather the priests, shamans, and apothecaries who were their predecessors. Yet, in many ways, perfumery is a lost art, its creative and sensual possibilities eclipsed by the synthetic ingredients of which contemporary perfumes are composed, which have none of the subtlety and complexity of essences ...

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