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How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

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How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

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Jill Burke

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Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics

*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023*
*A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*
*A New York Times Editor's Pick*

'Terrific' SARAH DUNANT

'Lively and intriguing ... You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in the same way' MAGGIE O'FARRELL

'Highlights a rich tapestry of female experience that encompasses everyone from artisans to aristocrats ...' THE TIMES

This is the story of the Renaissance, but not as you know it. Discover overlooked and silenced women from this extraordinary moment in history and how they forged opportunities for creativity, community and resistance. From the bedchamber to the court, they give us an intimate window into what life was really like - and hold a mirror up to our contemporary obsession with how we look.

'A witty and engaging history of cosmetics and beauty ... lavishly illustrated and hugely entertaining' IRISH TIMES

'A total eye-opener, I loved it' NUALA McGOVERN

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How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

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Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics *A Waterstones Best Book of 2023* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* *A New York Times Editor's Pick* 'Terrific' SARAH DUNANT 'Lively and intriguing ... You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in the same way' MAGGIE O'FARR...

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Sarah Penner

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Hello! magazine, Oprah.com, Bustle, Popsugar, Betches, Sweet July, and GoodReads! March 2021 Indie Next Pick and #1 LibraryReads Pick "A bold, edgy, accomplished debut!" -Kate Quinn, New York Times A forgotten history. A secret network of women. A legacy of poison and revenge. Welcome to The Lost Apothecary... bestselling author of The Alice Network
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries.

Meanwhile in present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, running from her own demons. When she stumbles upon a clue to the unsolved apothecary murders that haunted London two hundred years ago, her life collides with the apothecary's in a stunning twist of fate-and not everyone will survive.

With crackling suspense, unforgettable characters and searing insight, The Lost Apothecary is a subversive and intoxicating debut novel of secrets, vengeance and the remarkable ways women can save each other despite the barrier of time.

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The Lost Apothecary: A Novel [Penner, Sarah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Lost Apothecary: A Novel

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From Marie Antoinette's Garden: An Eighteenth-Century Horticultural Album

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From Marie Antoinette's Garden: An Eighteenth-Century Horticultural Album

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Élisabeth de Feydeau

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An eighteenth-century horticultural album

Préface : Catherine Pégard

Pratique - Langue anglaise

Paru le 02/09/2013

242 pages - 247 x 317 mm

Couleur - Relié

EAN : 9782080201423

ISBN : 9782080201423

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From Marie Antoinette's garden de Élisabeth de Feydeau - Editions Flammarion

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From Marie Antoinette's garden : présentation du livre de Élisabeth de Feydeau publié aux Editions Flammarion.

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Élisabeth de Feydeau

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Édition dirigée par : Alain Baraton

Préface : Catherine Pégard

"Vous aimez les fleurs? aurait dit Louis XVI à la jeune reine. Eh bien, j'ai un bouquet à vous donner : c'est le Petit Trianon." Marie-Antoinette investit alors pleinement l'ancienne propriété de Madame de Pompadour et transforme les jardins en décor féérique.
Partant de documents d'archives et du plan de l'architecte Richard Mique, Élisabeth de Feydeau a reconstitué l'herbier imaginaire qu'aurait pu faire la reine en parcourant son domaine et nous invite à une promenade au cœur du Petit Trianon. Plus qu'un herbier, l'auteure nous plonge dans le XVIII e siècle : les espèces nouvellement découvertes, les anecdotes de la cour, les utilisations en médecine, en parfumerie et en cosmétique de certaines essences...

Herbiers littéraires

Paru le 07/11/2018

Genre : Jardin

240 pages - 195 x 248 mm

Couleur - Broché

EAN : 9782081447103

ISBN : 9782081447103

24,90 €

E-book

Epub : 19,99€

Pdf : 19,99€

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L'herbier de Marie-Antoinette de Élisabeth de Feydeau - Editions Flammarion

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L'herbier de Marie-Antoinette : présentation du livre de Élisabeth de Feydeau publié aux Editions Flammarion. "Vous aimez les fleurs? aurait dit Louis XVI à la jeune reine. Eh bien, j'ai un bouquet à vous donner : c'est le Petit Trianon."

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Élisabeth de Feydeau

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Édition dirigée par : Alain Baraton

Préface : Catherine Pégard

"Vous aimez les fleurs? aurait dit Louis XVI à la jeune reine. Eh bien, j'ai un bouquet à vous donner : c'est le Petit Trianon." Marie-Antoinette investit alors pleinement l'ancienne propriété de Madame de Pompadour et transforme les jardins en décor féérique.
Partant de documents d'archives et du plan de l'architecte Richard Mique, Élisabeth de Feydeau a reconstitué l'herbier imaginaire qu'aurait pu faire la reine en parcourant son domaine et nous invite à une promenade au cœur du Petit Trianon. Plus qu'un herbier, l'auteure nous plonge dans le XVIII e siècle : les espèces nouvellement découvertes, les anecdotes de la cour, les utilisations en médecine, en parfumerie et en cosmétique de certaines essences...

Herbiers littéraires

Paru le 07/11/2018

Genre : Jardin

240 pages - 195 x 248 mm

Couleur - Broché

EAN : 9782081447103

ISBN : 9782081447103

24,90 €

E-book

Epub : 19,99€

Pdf : 19,99€

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L'herbier de Marie-Antoinette de Élisabeth de Feydeau - Editions Flammarion

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L'herbier de Marie-Antoinette : présentation du livre de Élisabeth de Feydeau publié aux Editions Flammarion. "Vous aimez les fleurs? aurait dit Louis XVI à la jeune reine. Eh bien, j'ai un bouquet à vous donner : c'est le Petit Trianon."

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Alain Baraton

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Surnommée " la reine des fleurs " depuis l'Antiquité, la rose règne sans partage : elle est la plus offerte au monde. En l'associant à l'amour dès son apparition, en Perse, nous lui avons prêté une passion que nous la chargeons de transmettre, ce qu'elle accomplit avec charme et fugacité, douceur et piquant. Cueillons-la avant qu'il ne soit trop tard, en compagnie d'Alain Baraton, le jardinier de Versailles, dans ce livre qui est la première histoire culturelle de la rose.

Qu'est-ce qui la caractérise ? Comment et quand s'est-elle répandue sur toute la terre ? Quelles sont ses propriétés, quelle est sa symbolique ? La rose rose est-elle la rose originelle ? Qui sont ceux qui lui ont donné son nom (et ceux qui en rêvent) ? De quels grands peintres a-t-elle été la fleur favorite, quels sont les plus beaux poèmes en son honneur, quels musiciens ont composé en s'inspirant d'elle ? Saviez-vous que la rose a causé des guerres, et engendré des usages gastronomiques ? La fleur la plus célèbre du monde est pleine de surprises.

Tout ceci, et bien d'autres découvertes encore, nous attendent dans Le Livre de la rose, où, alliant botanique, histoire et anecdotes, Alain Baraton révèle les secrets de la fleur aux cent pétales.

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Le livre de la rose (Grand format - Broché 2023), de Alain Baraton | Grasset

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Surnommée « la reine des fleurs » depuis l’Antiquité, la rose règne sans partage : elle est l

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Alain Baraton

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Surnommée " la reine des fleurs " depuis l'Antiquité, la rose règne sans partage : elle est la plus offerte au monde. En l'associant à l'amour dès son apparition, en Perse, nous lui avons prêté une passion que nous la chargeons de transmettre, ce qu'elle accomplit avec charme et fugacité, douceur et piquant. Cueillons-la avant qu'il ne soit trop tard, en compagnie d'Alain Baraton, le jardinier de Versailles, dans ce livre qui est la première histoire culturelle de la rose.

Qu'est-ce qui la caractérise ? Comment et quand s'est-elle répandue sur toute la terre ? Quelles sont ses propriétés, quelle est sa symbolique ? La rose rose est-elle la rose originelle ? Qui sont ceux qui lui ont donné son nom (et ceux qui en rêvent) ? De quels grands peintres a-t-elle été la fleur favorite, quels sont les plus beaux poèmes en son honneur, quels musiciens ont composé en s'inspirant d'elle ? Saviez-vous que la rose a causé des guerres, et engendré des usages gastronomiques ? La fleur la plus célèbre du monde est pleine de surprises.

Tout ceci, et bien d'autres découvertes encore, nous attendent dans Le Livre de la rose, où, alliant botanique, histoire et anecdotes, Alain Baraton révèle les secrets de la fleur aux cent pétales.

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Le livre de la rose (Grand format - Broché 2023), de Alain Baraton | Grasset

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Surnommée « la reine des fleurs » depuis l’Antiquité, la rose règne sans partage : elle est l

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Alain Baraton

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Surnommée " la reine des fleurs " depuis l'Antiquité, la rose règne sans partage : elle est la plus offerte au monde. En l'associant à l'amour dès son apparition, en Perse, nous lui avons prêté une passion que nous la chargeons de transmettre, ce qu'elle accomplit avec charme et fugacité, douceur et piquant. Cueillons-la avant qu'il ne soit trop tard, en compagnie d'Alain Baraton, le jardinier de Versailles, dans ce livre qui est la première histoire culturelle de la rose.

Qu'est-ce qui la caractérise ? Comment et quand s'est-elle répandue sur toute la terre ? Quelles sont ses propriétés, quelle est sa symbolique ? La rose rose est-elle la rose originelle ? Qui sont ceux qui lui ont donné son nom (et ceux qui en rêvent) ? De quels grands peintres a-t-elle été la fleur favorite, quels sont les plus beaux poèmes en son honneur, quels musiciens ont composé en s'inspirant d'elle ? Saviez-vous que la rose a causé des guerres, et engendré des usages gastronomiques ? La fleur la plus célèbre du monde est pleine de surprises.

Tout ceci, et bien d'autres découvertes encore, nous attendent dans Le Livre de la rose, où, alliant botanique, histoire et anecdotes, Alain Baraton révèle les secrets de la fleur aux cent pétales.

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Surnommée « la reine des fleurs » depuis l’Antiquité, la rose règne sans partage : elle est l

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Vanessa Hirsch (Author), Thomas Worm (Author), Friedrich Meschede (Editor)

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Visitors to the Autostadt automotive theme park in Wolfsburg, Germany, have recently been treated to a walk-through living greenhouse, a breezeway whose walls are made of rows of potted plants, open from April to September. The rack that holds the pots in place is openwork, and structurally speaking not unlike the one under Jeff Koons's Puppy, but Eliasson goes one step further by inviting viewers to move through the inside of the piece, and by animating it to rotate around them, pouring out seasonal scents. Eliasson's goal, realized here with great success and to great acclaim, is to bring viewers into a verdant, flourishing space. This petite, elegant hardcover documents the Scent Tunnel project and follows it through a full season, listing the flowering times of its plants and considering the work and its olfactory elements from both scientific and art-historical perspectives.

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Olafur Eliason: Scent Tunnel [Hirsch, Vanessa, Worm, Thomas, Meschede, Friedrich, Eliasson, Olafur] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Olafur Eliason: Scent Tunnel

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Spill The Tea: Unveiling The Mysteries Of Blended, Flavored, And Herbal Teas

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Spill The Tea: Unveiling The Mysteries Of Blended, Flavored, And Herbal Teas

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William Dietz

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Spill The Tea: Unveiling The Mysteries Of Blended, Flavored, And Herbal Teas

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Spill The Tea aims to provide readers with the most vital information about the flavored tea industry. It distills 15 years of career knowledge by systematically answering top questions about flavored and blended tea, providing a complete view behind the blending room door.

Through expert interviews, you will learn the following:

What flavoring is-the differences between natural and artificial flavor

The anatomy of a tea blend-why and how to use certain ingredients

The complex supply chain of flavored tea-what are the hidden costs

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Spill The Tea: Unveiling The Mysteries Of Blended, Flavored, And Herbal Teas

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Spill The Tea: Unveiling The Mysteries Of Blended, Flavored, And Herbal Teas [Dietz, William] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Spill The Tea: Unveiling The Mysteries Of Blended, Flavored, And Herbal Teas

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Noele Lusano

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In the far distance, just beyond the dark shades of mist I could see the tracings of a town, suspended in the haze like something out of a dream. What could it be like to start over in this part of the world, in this place with its vast wildness of mountains and sea, and no need to choose between them? The fire that I carried in me, if that's what it was, had flung me across continents again and again. It seemed only logical that at some point, something would compel me to stay.
What would it mean to be still? Another Grey City: A Scented Story by Noele Lusano is a personal exploration of geography and belonging through the lens of scent.

Each copy of the book is accompanied by a scent strip of Treasure & Dreams, a marine gourmand perfume created by the author.

Printed by Conveyor Press. 84 pages. Limited edition, second printing.

Noele Lusano is a photographer, designer and writer from San Francisco currently living in Seattle.
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In the far distance, just beyond the dark shades of mist I could see the tracings of a town, suspended in the haze like something out of a dream. What could it be like to start over in this part of the world, in this place with its vast wildness of mountains and sea, and no need to choose between them? The fire that I carried in me, if that's what it was, had flung me across continents again and again. It seemed only logical that at some point, something would compel me to stay.
What would it mean to be still? Another Grey City: A Scented Story by Noele Lusano is a personal exploration of geography and belonging through the lens of scent.

Each copy of the book is accompanied by a scent strip of Treasure & Dreams, a marine gourmand perfume created by the author.

Printed by Conveyor Press. 84 pages. Limited edition, second printing.

Noele Lusano is a photographer, designer and writer from San Francisco currently living in Seattle.
This item will ship within 1-3 weeks.

In the far distance, just beyond the dark shades of mist I could see the tracings of a town, suspended in the haze like something out of a dream. What could it be like to start over in this part of the world, in this place with its vast wildness of mountains and sea, and no need to choose between them? The fire that I carried in me, if that's what it was, had flung me across continents again and again. It seemed only logical that at some point, something would compel me to stay.
What would it mean to be still? Another Grey City: A Scented Story by Noele Lusano is a personal exploration of geography and belonging through the lens of scent.

Each copy of the book is accompanied by a scent strip of Treasure & Dreams, a marine gourmand perfume created by the author.

Printed by Conveyor Press. 84 pages. Limited edition, second printing.

Noele Lusano is a photographer, designer and writer from San Francisco currently living in Seattle.
This item will ship within 1-3 weeks.

In the far distance, just beyond the dark shades of mist I could see the tracings of a town, suspended in the haze like something out of a dream. What could it be like to start over in this part of the world, in this place with its vast wildness of mountains and sea, and no need to choose between them? The fire that I carried in me, if that's what it was, had flung me across continents again and again. It seemed only logical that at some point, something would compel me to stay.
What would it mean to be still? Another Grey City: A Scented Story by Noele Lusano is a personal exploration of geography and belonging through the lens of scent.

Each copy of the book is accompanied by a scent strip of Treasure & Dreams, a marine gourmand perfume created by the author.

Printed by Conveyor Press. 84 pages. Limited edition, second printing.

Noele Lusano is a photographer, designer and writer from San Francisco currently living in Seattle.
This item will ship within 1-3 weeks.

In the far distance, just beyond the dark shades of mist I could see the tracings of a town, suspended in the haze like something out of a dream. What could it be like to start over in this part of the world, in this place with its vast wildness of mountains and sea, and no need to choose between them? The fire that I carried in me, if that's what it was, had flung me across continents again and again. It seemed only logical that at some point, something would compel me to stay.
What would it mean to be still? Another Grey City: A Scented Story by Noele Lusano is a personal exploration of geography and belonging through the lens of scent.

Each copy of the book is accompanied by a scent strip of Treasure & Dreams, a marine gourmand perfume created by the author.

Printed by Conveyor Press. 84 pages. Limited edition, second printing.

Noele Lusano is a photographer, designer and writer from San Francisco currently living in Seattle.
This item will ship within 1-3 weeks.

In the far distance, just beyond the dark shades of mist I could see the tracings of a town, suspended in the haze like something out of a dream. What could it be like to start over in this part of the world, in this place with its vast wildness of mountains and sea, and no need to choose between them? The fire that I carried in me, if that's what it was, had flung me across continents again and again. It seemed only logical that at some point, something would compel me to stay.
What would it mean to be still? Another Grey City: A Scented Story by Noele Lusano is a personal exploration of geography and belonging through the lens of scent.

Each copy of the book is accompanied by a scent strip of Treasure & Dreams, a marine gourmand perfume created by the author.

Printed by Conveyor Press. 84 pages. Limited edition, second printing.

Noele Lusano is a photographer, designer and writer from San Francisco currently living in Seattle.
This item will ship within 1-3 weeks.

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Another Grey City: A Scented Story - ex libris odoratis

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In the far distance, just beyond the dark shades of mist I could see the tracings of a town, suspended in the haze like something out of a dream.

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Perfumes: The Essences And Their Bottles

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Perfumes: The Essences And Their Bottles

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Jean-Yves Gaborit

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Perfumes: The Essences And Their Bottles

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GABORIT, Jean-Yves

[174] pp.

Rizzoli

1985

11" x 10 1/8"

Ex libris Kitty D'Alessio (former head of Chanel NA)

An album of more than two hundred perfume bottles presents designs that have been designed to match the scent they hold and to reflect the image the makers want to project

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"Perfumes: The Essences And Their Bottles" 1985 GABORIT, Jean-Yves

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GABORIT, Jean-Yves [174] pp. Rizzoli 1985 11" x 10 1/8" Ex libris Kitty D'Alessio (former head of Chanel NA) An album of more than two hundred perfume bottles presents designs that have been designed to match the scent they hold and to reflect the image the makers want to project

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Galaxy of Scents: The Ancient Art of Perfume Making

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Galaxy of Scents: The Ancient Art of Perfume Making

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Dr. Mary Lynne

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Galaxy of Scents: The Ancient Art of Perfume Making

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Make your own mystical perfumes! The author, a cosmically illumined physician, made perfumes based upon the biblical formula mentioned in Exodus 30:34. There it tells exactly what plants to use and how much to use from each plant. This manuscript, originally published in the late 1960's, has been eagerly sought after in vain by alchemical students because it has never been published until now. The many perfumes this book describes, can be used for all kinds of medicinal, psychic, and every-day uses. The story of the author and her successes in bringing these ancient formulas to light is as fascinating as the ingredients to her perfumes. The author sold her perfumes only at cost even though she refused a substantial fortune to commercialize them through a prominent company. She was interviewed in magazines, on television, radio, and gave lectures. In 1969 she was selected as one of the "Two Thousand Women of Achievement." Also included in the book is the name and address of where you can purchase Dr. Lynne's perfumes! These perfumes work! Be one of the first to make your own perfumes and see what they can do for you!

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Galaxy of Scents: The Ancient Art of Perfume Making

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Make your own mystical perfumes! The author, a cosmically illumined physician, made perfumes based upon the biblical formula mentioned in Exodus 30:34. There it tells exactly what plants to use and how much to use from each plant. This manuscript, originally published in the late 1960's, has been...

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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of 19th-Century Urban America

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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of 19th-Century Urban America

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Melanie A. Kiechle

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" Smell Detectives is a brilliant, entertaining book informed by careful archival research. Supplemented by fascinating illustrations, the book navigates a rich and eclectic archive that is frequently obscured when historians overemphasize the perspectives of health experts and government officials. . . . Kiechle's remarkable study opens up productive new questions and lines of inquiry."―Hsuan L. Hsu, Journal of Historical Geography, 11/23/2017

"Kiechle's addition to sensory history provides many points to discuss about the people who made the smells that they did not like."―Alexandra Kindell, H-Net Reviews (H-Socialisms), February 2018

"This book is a highly creative and unusual glimpse into a realm of environmental history that is rarely accessible to modern observers."―Sean Munger, New Books Network podcast

"An attractive edition . . . beautifully written, with a flair for the attention-grabbing turn of phrase that is compulsory in sensory studies. The work is also finely illustrated, offering prints from the nineteenth century that are at no occasion superfluous. As environmental history, Smell Detectives is an essential read, offering new contexts for a field in search of freshly radical tones to combat environmental degradation."―Andrew J. Kettler, University of Toronto, Journal of Social History

" Smell Detectives draws insights from the rapidly developing literature in sensory history and applies them to the nineteenth-century urban environment. The results are illuminating and extend the field of environmental history in new and fascinating directions."―Michael Rawson, author of Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston

"Phew! The nineteenth century was smelly! From stockyards to battlefields, Smell Detectives shows us why stench mattered. Chemists, reformers, mothers, cartoonists, politicians, physicians, generals, bureaucrats, and industrialists struggled to trace and abate stink to keep Americans healthy. With grace and verve, Kiechle explains their reasoning and their legacy."―Conevery Bolton Valencius, Boston College

"The manner in which individuals, governments, scientists, and various groups dealt and reacted to smells and fresh air issues provide great insight into our culture―what has value, what does not, what makes us sick, what keeps us well. Smell Detectives is a bottom-up history that is necessary to truly grasp the evolution of cities."―Martin V. Melosi, author of The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

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Bonnie Blodgett

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In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with a nasty cold. After a quick shot of a popular nasal spray up each nostril, the back of her nose was on fire. With that, Blodgett--a professional garden writer devoted to the sensual pleasures of garden and kitchen--was launched on a journey through the senses, the psyche, and the sciences. Her olfactory nerve was destroyed, perhaps forever. She had lost her sense of smell. Phantosmia--a constant stench of "every disgusting thing you can think of tossed into a blender and pureed"--is the first disorienting stage. It's the brain's attempt, as Blodgett vividly conveys, to compensate for loss by conjuring up a tortured facsimile. As the hallucinations fade and anosmia (no smell at all) moves in to take their place, Blodgett is beset by questions: Why are smell and mood hand-in-hand? How are smell disorders linked to other diseases? What is taste without flavor? Blodgett's provocative conversations with renowned geneticists, smell dysfunction experts, neurobiologists, chefs, and others ultimately lead to a life-altering understanding of smell, and to the most transformative lesson of all: the olfactory nerve, in ways unlike any other in the human body has the extraordinary power to heal.

A Q&A with Bonnie Blodgett, Author of Remembering Smell

Q: What inspired you to write a memoir about smell?

A: A series of unfortunate events. In the fall of 2005, my nose stopped working. I'd inhaled a zinc-based gel called Zicam to prevent a cold. The cold was unfazed, and I spent a week stuffed up and miserable. A week later I noticed a funny smell. Soon I was overwhelmed by unaccountable odors, unfortunately all of them vile. Imagine a blend of rotten eggs, dead fish, feces, and burning flesh. Versions of these odors came and went, but the smell never left. Q: You mean it never faded? A: Unfortunately, no. The brain has a mechanism that tunes out smells after a fairly short exposure. That's why we can't smell our own perfume. I knew something was seriously wrong because they were constant. The fade button had gone on the blink. Naturally, my first thought was that I was just imagining it. Maybe I was going mad. Q: How did you find out what was going on? A: An ear, nose, and throat specialist knew immediately that the odors were olfactory hallucinations. I wasn't making them up, my brain was. He prescribed an old-fashioned antidepressant that would trick my brain into letting up on the odiferous onslaught. Q: What actually happens inside the nose? A: The cells begin to divide, making new ones. Olfactory neurons are the only brain cells capable of regenerating the way other nerves in the body do. Recently scientists have shown that neurons deep in the brain can repair themselves, but the process is circuitous and not well understood. Interestingly, the route that cells take is from the olfactory bulb to the rest of the limbic system and then to the other brain regions, by way of so-called exit ramps off what scientists have taken to calling the cell superhighway. If we can figure out how this works, we might be able to send stem cells we've designed for specific purposes into damaged brain areas and jump- start the healing process. Q: How long does it typically take for olfactory cells to heal? A: Full recovery (if recovery occurs) usually takes anywhere from three months to a year, depending on the situation. Anosmia caused when the brain suddenly shifts inside the skull--this is what happens with head injuries--severing the long nerves leading from the receptor sheet to the olfactory bulb, is often permanent. Anosmia resulting from an infection typically takes three to six months to resolve itself, if it does. People who lost their sense of smell after taking Zicam have had mixed results. Most were not as lucky as I was.

(Photo © Ann Marsden)

Minnesota garden writer Blodgett (The Garden Letter) lost her sense of smell after using Zicam nasal spray for her cold and had to relearn the central role of smell in the entire makeup of her life. In this thoughtful, informative work, she delves with a laymanÖs tenacity into the complicated science of smell, its role in evolution, memory, and survival, and how the deprivation affected her own life with her longtime husband, Cam, and two grown daughters. Before the full-fledged anosmia (loss of smell) set in, however, came phantosmia, or being plagued by false smells--in BlodgettÖs case, a bad odor like rotting flesh, such as she recognized from the stench of the corpse flower. Traced to the use of Zicam (its ingredient zinc gluconate proved toxic to smell receptor neurons; the FDA has since pulled the nasal spray from the market), her anosmia brought on depression and loss of sexual desire (the role of pheromones). Through her dogged research to understand what was ailing her, Blodgett discovered olfactionÖs intimate relationship with the limbic system, which regulates our emotional and instinctive behavior. Thus, robbed of the rich memory tapestry that smell imparted, she couldnÖt write, stung by the fear of losing what was real--the pleasures of being human. General readers will find her memoir richly nuanced and broadly researched.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with a nasty cold. After a quick shot of a popular nasal spray up each nostril, the back of her nose was on fire. With that, Blodgett--a professional garden writer devoted to the sensual pleasures of garden and kitchen--was launched on a journey through the senses, the psyche, and the sciences. Her olfactory nerve was destroyed, perhaps forever. She had lost her sense of smell. Phantosmia--a constant stench of "every disgusting thing you can think of tossed into a blender and pureed"--is the first disorienting stage. It's the brain's attempt, as Blodgett vividly conveys, to compensate for loss by conjuring up a tortured facsimile. As the hallucinations fade and anosmia (no smell at all) moves in to take their place, Blodgett is beset by questions: Why are smell and mood hand-in-hand? How are smell disorders linked to other diseases? What is taste without flavor? Blodgett's provocative conversations with renowned geneticists, smell dysfunction experts, neurobiologists, chefs, and others ultimately lead to a life-altering understanding of smell, and to the most transformative lesson of all: the olfactory nerve, in ways unlike any other in the human body has the extraordinary power to heal.

A Q&A with Bonnie Blodgett, Author of Remembering Smell

Q: What inspired you to write a memoir about smell?

A: A series of unfortunate events. In the fall of 2005, my nose stopped working. I'd inhaled a zinc-based gel called Zicam to prevent a cold. The cold was unfazed, and I spent a week stuffed up and miserable. A week later I noticed a funny smell. Soon I was overwhelmed by unaccountable odors, unfortunately all of them vile. Imagine a blend of rotten eggs, dead fish, feces, and burning flesh. Versions of these odors came and went, but the smell never left. Q: You mean it never faded? A: Unfortunately, no. The brain has a mechanism that tunes out smells after a fairly short exposure. That's why we can't smell our own perfume. I knew something was seriously wrong because they were constant. The fade button had gone on the blink. Naturally, my first thought was that I was just imagining it. Maybe I was going mad. Q: How did you find out what was going on? A: An ear, nose, and throat specialist knew immediately that the odors were olfactory hallucinations. I wasn't making them up, my brain was. He prescribed an old-fashioned antidepressant that would trick my brain into letting up on the odiferous onslaught. Q: What actually happens inside the nose? A: The cells begin to divide, making new ones. Olfactory neurons are the only brain cells capable of regenerating the way other nerves in the body do. Recently scientists have shown that neurons deep in the brain can repair themselves, but the process is circuitous and not well understood. Interestingly, the route that cells take is from the olfactory bulb to the rest of the limbic system and then to the other brain regions, by way of so-called exit ramps off what scientists have taken to calling the cell superhighway. If we can figure out how this works, we might be able to send stem cells we've designed for specific purposes into damaged brain areas and jump- start the healing process. Q: How long does it typically take for olfactory cells to heal? A: Full recovery (if recovery occurs) usually takes anywhere from three months to a year, depending on the situation. Anosmia caused when the brain suddenly shifts inside the skull--this is what happens with head injuries--severing the long nerves leading from the receptor sheet to the olfactory bulb, is often permanent. Anosmia resulting from an infection typically takes three to six months to resolve itself, if it does. People who lost their sense of smell after taking Zicam have had mixed results. Most were not as lucky as I was.

(Photo © Ann Marsden)

Minnesota garden writer Blodgett (The Garden Letter) lost her sense of smell after using Zicam nasal spray for her cold and had to relearn the central role of smell in the entire makeup of her life. In this thoughtful, informative work, she delves with a laymanÖs tenacity into the complicated science of smell, its role in evolution, memory, and survival, and how the deprivation affected her own life with her longtime husband, Cam, and two grown daughters. Before the full-fledged anosmia (loss of smell) set in, however, came phantosmia, or being plagued by false smells--in BlodgettÖs case, a bad odor like rotting flesh, such as she recognized from the stench of the corpse flower. Traced to the use of Zicam (its ingredient zinc gluconate proved toxic to smell receptor neurons; the FDA has since pulled the nasal spray from the market), her anosmia brought on depression and loss of sexual desire (the role of pheromones). Through her dogged research to understand what was ailing her, Blodgett discovered olfactionÖs intimate relationship with the limbic system, which regulates our emotional and instinctive behavior. Thus, robbed of the rich memory tapestry that smell imparted, she couldnÖt write, stung by the fear of losing what was real--the pleasures of being human. General readers will find her memoir richly nuanced and broadly researched.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with a nasty cold. After a quick shot of a popular nasal spray up each nostril, the back of her nose was on fire. With that, Blodgett--a professional garden writer devoted to the sensual pleasures of garden and kitchen--was launched on a journey through the senses, the psyche, and the sciences. Her olfactory nerve was destroyed, perhaps forever. She had lost her sense of smell. Phantosmia--a constant stench of "every disgusting thing you can think of tossed into a blender and pureed"--is the first disorienting stage. It's the brain's attempt, as Blodgett vividly conveys, to compensate for loss by conjuring up a tortured facsimile. As the hallucinations fade and anosmia (no smell at all) moves in to take their place, Blodgett is beset by questions: Why are smell and mood hand-in-hand? How are smell disorders linked to other diseases? What is taste without flavor? Blodgett's provocative conversations with renowned geneticists, smell dysfunction experts, neurobiologists, chefs, and others ultimately lead to a life-altering understanding of smell, and to the most transformative lesson of all: the olfactory nerve, in ways unlike any other in the human body has the extraordinary power to heal.

A Q&A with Bonnie Blodgett, Author of Remembering Smell

Q: What inspired you to write a memoir about smell?

A: A series of unfortunate events. In the fall of 2005, my nose stopped working. I'd inhaled a zinc-based gel called Zicam to prevent a cold. The cold was unfazed, and I spent a week stuffed up and miserable. A week later I noticed a funny smell. Soon I was overwhelmed by unaccountable odors, unfortunately all of them vile. Imagine a blend of rotten eggs, dead fish, feces, and burning flesh. Versions of these odors came and went, but the smell never left. Q: You mean it never faded? A: Unfortunately, no. The brain has a mechanism that tunes out smells after a fairly short exposure. That's why we can't smell our own perfume. I knew something was seriously wrong because they were constant. The fade button had gone on the blink. Naturally, my first thought was that I was just imagining it. Maybe I was going mad. Q: How did you find out what was going on? A: An ear, nose, and throat specialist knew immediately that the odors were olfactory hallucinations. I wasn't making them up, my brain was. He prescribed an old-fashioned antidepressant that would trick my brain into letting up on the odiferous onslaught. Q: What actually happens inside the nose? A: The cells begin to divide, making new ones. Olfactory neurons are the only brain cells capable of regenerating the way other nerves in the body do. Recently scientists have shown that neurons deep in the brain can repair themselves, but the process is circuitous and not well understood. Interestingly, the route that cells take is from the olfactory bulb to the rest of the limbic system and then to the other brain regions, by way of so-called exit ramps off what scientists have taken to calling the cell superhighway. If we can figure out how this works, we might be able to send stem cells we've designed for specific purposes into damaged brain areas and jump- start the healing process. Q: How long does it typically take for olfactory cells to heal? A: Full recovery (if recovery occurs) usually takes anywhere from three months to a year, depending on the situation. Anosmia caused when the brain suddenly shifts inside the skull--this is what happens with head injuries--severing the long nerves leading from the receptor sheet to the olfactory bulb, is often permanent. Anosmia resulting from an infection typically takes three to six months to resolve itself, if it does. People who lost their sense of smell after taking Zicam have had mixed results. Most were not as lucky as I was.

(Photo © Ann Marsden)

Minnesota garden writer Blodgett (The Garden Letter) lost her sense of smell after using Zicam nasal spray for her cold and had to relearn the central role of smell in the entire makeup of her life. In this thoughtful, informative work, she delves with a laymanÖs tenacity into the complicated science of smell, its role in evolution, memory, and survival, and how the deprivation affected her own life with her longtime husband, Cam, and two grown daughters. Before the full-fledged anosmia (loss of smell) set in, however, came phantosmia, or being plagued by false smells--in BlodgettÖs case, a bad odor like rotting flesh, such as she recognized from the stench of the corpse flower. Traced to the use of Zicam (its ingredient zinc gluconate proved toxic to smell receptor neurons; the FDA has since pulled the nasal spray from the market), her anosmia brought on depression and loss of sexual desire (the role of pheromones). Through her dogged research to understand what was ailing her, Blodgett discovered olfactionÖs intimate relationship with the limbic system, which regulates our emotional and instinctive behavior. Thus, robbed of the rich memory tapestry that smell imparted, she couldnÖt write, stung by the fear of losing what was real--the pleasures of being human. General readers will find her memoir richly nuanced and broadly researched.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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The Nose : A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival

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The Nose : A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival

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Gabrielle Glaser

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Glaser draws a thousand scents into a highly readable narrative that's a breath of fresh air.

- Christian Science Monitor

A quirky, but well-told book that examines its place in history and cultures.

- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Glaser explores all things about the nose and how it defines us.

- NPR, All Things Considered

Natural history meets pop culture.

Each year Americans spend billions of dollars on their noses. From over-the-counter sinus remedies to cosmetic surgery, aromatherapy to Chanel no. 5, we are a nation immersed in all things nasal. But how did this one vital organ become an object of beauty, a status symbol, the basis for judging character? What led to the invention of cotton tissues? Why do we follow our noses when seeking a mate -- or choosing a president?

The Nose is a fascinating tour of its subject through history and biology, art and culture, sex and sensibility, sickness and health. Gabrielle Glaser breathes life into her research by offering engaging anecdotes and personal interviews with physicians and their patients; members of the FDA and the Fragrance Foundation; a rabbi who contemplates the nose in sacred Jewish texts; and a plastic surgeon who finally puts his own proboscis under the knife. Sure to awaken the senses of anyone who has pondered, probed, concealed, or cosmetically altered their noses, this book proves that there is more to the nose than meets the eye.

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Gabrielle Glaser's book "The Nose" charts the shifting significances of the nose across different geographies, ethnicities, and time periods.

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Barbara Milo Ohrbach

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Dozens of inspired ideas for using dried flowers and herbs in the home for fragrance and visual beauty, as well as how to shop for, grow, dry, and store them; by the owner of Cherchez, the elegant New York store. More than 110 full-color photographs.

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The Scented Room [Ohrbach, Barbara Milo] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Scented Room

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AMERICAN LEGENDS: The evolution of American fragrances

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AMERICAN LEGENDS: The evolution of American fragrances

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Michael Edwards

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AMERICAN LEGENDS

The evolution of American fragrances

American Legends is the long-awaited companion to Perfume Legends, the cult book in which French perfumers spoke openly for the first time about their work and the sources of their inspiration. "There is no book like it," stated Edmond Roudnitska, the celebrated perfumer.

Now, in American Legends, Michael Edwards documents the evolution, the richness and the sheer originality of American fragrances from Elizabeth Arden's Blue Grass (1934) to Le Labo's Santal 33 (2011). The result is living history, told through the words of the creators behind forty legendary American perfumes.

ISBN: 978-0-6454839-1-8

Select your country of residence to see pricing.
* American Legends launch offer: 20% discount applied at checkout.
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American Legends - Discover Michael Edwards' world of fragrances

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The evolution of American fragrances American Legends is the long-awaited companion to Perfume Legends, the cult book in which French perfumers spoke openly for the first time about their work and the sources of their inspiration. "There is no book like it," stated Edmond Roudnitska, the celebrated perfumer.

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Natural Fragrances: Outdoor Scents for Indoor Uses

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Natural Fragrances: Outdoor Scents for Indoor Uses

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Gail Duff

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Natural Fragrances: Outdoor Scents for Indoor Uses

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Do not let the fact that this book is celebrating its 20th birthday deter you from buying it for your library of books with information about flower and herb preparations for the home. This book is chock full of wonderful information and ideas on the subject. I highly reccommend it to the novice and the experienced crafter of all things floral.

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Natural Fragrances: Outdoor Scents for Indoor Uses

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Natural Fragrances: Outdoor Scents for Indoor Uses [Duff, Gail] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Natural Fragrances: Outdoor Scents for Indoor Uses

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Natural Fragrances: Outdoor Scents for Indoor Uses

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Natural Fragrances: Outdoor Scents for Indoor Uses

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Gail Duff

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Natural Fragrances: Outdoor Scents for Indoor Uses

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Do not let the fact that this book is celebrating its 20th birthday deter you from buying it for your library of books with information about flower and herb preparations for the home. This book is chock full of wonderful information and ideas on the subject. I highly reccommend it to the novice and the experienced crafter of all things floral.

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Natural Fragrances: Outdoor Scents for Indoor Uses

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Gaston Bachelard

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The Poetics of Space [Gaston Bachelard, Maria Jolas, John R. Stilgoe] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Poetics of Space

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Christopher Kemp

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A fascinating natural history of an incredibly curious substance.

"Preternaturally hardened whale dung" is not the first image that comes to mind when we think of perfume, otherwise a symbol of glamour and allure. But the key ingredient that makes the sophisticated scent linger on the skin is precisely this bizarre digestive by-product-ambergris. Despite being one of the world's most expensive substances (its value is nearly that of gold and has at times in history been triple it), ambergris is also one of the world's least known. But with this unusual and highly alluring book, Christopher Kemp promises to change that by uncovering the unique history of ambergris.

A rare secretion produced only by sperm whales, which have a fondness for squid but an inability to digest their beaks, ambergris is expelled at sea and floats on ocean currents for years, slowly transforming, before it sometimes washes ashore looking like a nondescript waxy pebble. It can appear almost anywhere but is found so rarely, it might as well appear nowhere. Kemp's journey begins with an encounter on a New Zealand beach with a giant lump of faux ambergris-determined after much excitement to nothing more exotic than lard-that inspires a comprehensive quest to seek out ambergris and its story. He takes us from the wild, rocky New Zealand coastline to Stewart Island, a remote, windswept island in the southern seas, to Boston and Cape Cod, and back again. Along the way, he tracks down the secretive collectors and traders who populate the clandestine modern-day ambergris trade.

Floating Gold is an entertaining and lively history that covers not only these precious gray lumps and those who covet them, but presents a highly informative account of the natural history of whales, squid, ocean ecology, and even a history of the perfume industry. Kemp's obsessive curiosity is infectious, and eager readers will feel as though they have stumbled upon a precious bounty of this intriguing substance.

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A fascinating natural history of an incredibly curious substance. "Preternaturally hardened whale dung" is not the first image that comes to mind when we think of perfume, otherwise a symbol of glamour and allure. But the key ingredient that makes the sophisticated scent linger on the skin is precisely this bizarre digestive by-product-ambergris.

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The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

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Byung-Chul Han

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In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes our daily routines robs human beings of the capacity to linger and the faculty of contemplation. It therefore becomes impossible to experience time as fulfilling. Drawing on a range of thinkers including Heidegger, Nietzsche and Arendt, Han argues that we can overcome this temporal crisis only by revitalizing the vita contemplativa and relearning the art of lingering. For what distinguishes humans from other animals is the capacity for reflection and contemplation, and when life regains this capacity, this art of lingering, it gains in time and space, in duration and vastness.

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The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

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In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans.

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Flower Oils and Floral Compounds in Perfumery

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Flower Oils and Floral Compounds in Perfumery

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Danute Pajaujis Anonis

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Flower Oils and Floral Compounds in Perfumery

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This Book written by a senior perfumer/chemist Danute Anonis reviews over 100 years of published information on the formulation of floral compounds and perfumes. The book provides information on modern variations regarding new materials that have replaced or are alternatives to older formulas. There are 42 chapters on specific plant or synthetic fragrances, arranged in alphabetical order, covering their origin (synthetic or botanical), chemical composition, production (including type and yield of essential oils), and application. There are examples of traditional formulas of floral compounds in various periods of their development. The book contains 2 miscellaneous chapters one entitled Miscellaneous flower oils and the other chapter Miscellaneous floral compounds. The book summarizes this information from the chemical and perfumery point of view. There is no index.

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J'ai vu une fleur sauvage: L'herbier de Malicorne

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J'ai vu une fleur sauvage: L'herbier de Malicorne

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Hubert Reeves

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J'ai vu une fleur sauvage: L'herbier de Malicorne

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J'ai vu une fleur sauvage: L'herbier de Malicorne

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Hubert Reeves

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J'ai vu une fleur sauvage: L'herbier de Malicorne

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Hubert Reeves

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Le N°5 de Chanel. Biographie non autorisée

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Marie-Dominique Lelièvre

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Un seul parfum peut se faire héros d'un livre, le N°5 de Chanel. Un siècle après sa création, il revèle peu à peu ses secrets.Son histoire intemporelle est un riche roman foisonnant, fait de chapitres lumineux ou sombres, comme la destinée de sa créatrice Coco Chanel.Traquant la vie de ce parfum dans ses moindres facettes, Marie-Dominique Lelièvre livre un ouvrage plein de surprises. Des amours de Coco aux Archives nationales, des champs de Grasse aux intuitions de Marilyn Monroe, l'auteur piste la fragrance.D'une plume libre et allègre, voici, pour la première fois, la biographie d'un parfum.

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Le N°5 de Chanel: Biographie non autorisée

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Marie-Dominique Lelièvre

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Un seul parfum peut se faire héros d'un livre, le N°5 de Chanel. Un siècle après sa création, il revèle peu à peu ses secrets.Son histoire intemporelle est un riche roman foisonnant, fait de chapitres lumineux ou sombres, comme la destinée de sa créatrice Coco Chanel.Traquant la vie de ce parfum dans ses moindres facettes, Marie-Dominique Lelièvre livre un ouvrage plein de surprises. Des amours de Coco aux Archives nationales, des champs de Grasse aux intuitions de Marilyn Monroe, l'auteur piste la fragrance.D'une plume libre et allègre, voici, pour la première fois, la biographie d'un parfum.

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Le N°5 de Chanel: Biographie non autorisée

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Un seul parfum peut se faire héros d'un livre, le N°5 de Chanel. Un siècle après sa création, il revèle peu à peu ses secrets.Son histoire intemporelle est un riche roman foisonnant, fait de chapitres lumineux ou sombres, comme la destinée de sa créatrice Coco Chanel.Traquant la vie de ce parfum ...

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Anna Dorn

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“Perceptive and witty—like a Sally Rooney novel set in Southern California.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) “It’s this author’s best work yet. A Sapp…

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PAR LE BOUT DU NEZ :  Une histoire intime des odeurs

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PAR LE BOUT DU NEZ :  Une histoire intime des odeurs

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SARAH BOUASSE

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L'odorat est souvent perçu comme un sens mineur, qui nous ramène à une animalité oubliée.

Pourtant les odeurs sont partout, tout le temps.
Depuis notre naissance et même un peu avant, nous sentons chaque fois que nous respirons, plus de 20 000 fois par jour. Quoique largement inconscient, ce phénomène impacte toutes les strates de notre existence. Sentiment d'identité, mémoire, émotions, alimentation, sexualité, rapport à l'autre et à l'ensemble du Vivant : notre nez se mêle de tout.

Fascinée depuis toujours par cette dimension secrète et silencieuse du monde, Sarah Bouasse explore la diversité de ses enjeux dans nos vies en croisant son expérience personnelle avec son parcours de journaliste dans l'univers des odeurs, au contact de parfumeurs et de scientifiques de tous bords. Dévoilant la richesse insoupçonnée de ce qui se joue au milieu de nos figures, elle nous invite à lever le nez pour redonner à l'odorat sa juste place dans notre expérience du monde.

À la fois émouvant et instructif, ce livre intime à la portée universelle éclaire la part de l'invisible dans nos vies à tous.

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Par le bout du nez (Grand format - Broché 2024), de Sarah Bouasse | Calmann-Lévy

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L’odorat est souvent perçu comme un sens mineur, qui nous ramène à une animalité oubliée. Pourtant les

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PAR LE BOUT DU NEZ :  Une histoire intime des odeurs

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PAR LE BOUT DU NEZ :  Une histoire intime des odeurs

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SARAH BOUASSE

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L'odorat est souvent perçu comme un sens mineur, qui nous ramène à une animalité oubliée.

Pourtant les odeurs sont partout, tout le temps.
Depuis notre naissance et même un peu avant, nous sentons chaque fois que nous respirons, plus de 20 000 fois par jour. Quoique largement inconscient, ce phénomène impacte toutes les strates de notre existence. Sentiment d'identité, mémoire, émotions, alimentation, sexualité, rapport à l'autre et à l'ensemble du Vivant : notre nez se mêle de tout.

Fascinée depuis toujours par cette dimension secrète et silencieuse du monde, Sarah Bouasse explore la diversité de ses enjeux dans nos vies en croisant son expérience personnelle avec son parcours de journaliste dans l'univers des odeurs, au contact de parfumeurs et de scientifiques de tous bords. Dévoilant la richesse insoupçonnée de ce qui se joue au milieu de nos figures, elle nous invite à lever le nez pour redonner à l'odorat sa juste place dans notre expérience du monde.

À la fois émouvant et instructif, ce livre intime à la portée universelle éclaire la part de l'invisible dans nos vies à tous.

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Par le bout du nez (Grand format - Broché 2024), de Sarah Bouasse | Calmann-Lévy

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L’odorat est souvent perçu comme un sens mineur, qui nous ramène à une animalité oubliée. Pourtant les

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PAR LE BOUT DU NEZ :  Une histoire intime des odeurs

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PAR LE BOUT DU NEZ :  Une histoire intime des odeurs

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SARAH BOUASSE

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L'odorat est souvent perçu comme un sens mineur, qui nous ramène à une animalité oubliée.

Pourtant les odeurs sont partout, tout le temps.
Depuis notre naissance et même un peu avant, nous sentons chaque fois que nous respirons, plus de 20 000 fois par jour. Quoique largement inconscient, ce phénomène impacte toutes les strates de notre existence. Sentiment d'identité, mémoire, émotions, alimentation, sexualité, rapport à l'autre et à l'ensemble du Vivant : notre nez se mêle de tout.

Fascinée depuis toujours par cette dimension secrète et silencieuse du monde, Sarah Bouasse explore la diversité de ses enjeux dans nos vies en croisant son expérience personnelle avec son parcours de journaliste dans l'univers des odeurs, au contact de parfumeurs et de scientifiques de tous bords. Dévoilant la richesse insoupçonnée de ce qui se joue au milieu de nos figures, elle nous invite à lever le nez pour redonner à l'odorat sa juste place dans notre expérience du monde.

À la fois émouvant et instructif, ce livre intime à la portée universelle éclaire la part de l'invisible dans nos vies à tous.

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Par le bout du nez (Grand format - Broché 2024), de Sarah Bouasse | Calmann-Lévy

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L’odorat est souvent perçu comme un sens mineur, qui nous ramène à une animalité oubliée. Pourtant les

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Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany

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Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany

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Jean H. Langenheim

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Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany

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Few people are aware of the great diversity of resin-producing plants or the remarkable roles resins play for plants and people. Resins evolved millions of years ago to defend plants against their enemies, as recorded by fossil resins like amber, and humans have used them since prehistory. Plant Resins tells the whole story about these fascinating plant products. The book is richly illustrated with maps, color and black-and-white photographs, and exquisite line drawings by Jesse Markman. This comprehensive and integrated discussion of resins will appeal to botanists, ecologists, ethnobotanists, chemists, anthropologists, archeologists, museum conservators, and amber enthusiasts.

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Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany

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Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany

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Jean H. Langenheim

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Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany

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Few people are aware of the great diversity of resin-producing plants or the remarkable roles resins play for plants and people. Resins evolved millions of years ago to defend plants against their enemies, as recorded by fossil resins like amber, and humans have used them since prehistory. Plant Resins tells the whole story about these fascinating plant products. The book is richly illustrated with maps, color and black-and-white photographs, and exquisite line drawings by Jesse Markman. This comprehensive and integrated discussion of resins will appeal to botanists, ecologists, ethnobotanists, chemists, anthropologists, archeologists, museum conservators, and amber enthusiasts.

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Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany

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P. M. Muller and D. Lamparsky, Eds.

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P. M. Muller and D. Lamparsky, Eds.

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The Chemistry of Fragrances: From Perfumer to Consumer

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The Chemistry of Fragrances: From Perfumer to Consumer

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David Pybus, Ed.

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The authors are able to demonstrate that the chemistry of such tiny fragrant molecules can be very fascinating.....the book is a must for anyone with an interest in fragrances. It is simply fascinating!!

Reviews from the 1st Edition ...

"very readable as well as being educational. Highly recommended!"

Organic Process Research and Development Vol 4 No 1 2000 p 60

The chemistry of fragrances. From perfumer to consumer

Charles Sell (ed)

Cambridge, UK; Royal Society of Chemistry - 2006 - 336pp - ISBN 0854048243

Reviewed by David Chamberlin

... a good insight into the perfume industry

This book is unashamedly chemical, written by and for chemists. It is multi-authored, but all the contributors are currently or were previously employed by the same company, Quest International, giving a cohesive approach to the content. The editor, Charles Sell, welds the various chapters together to give a good insight into the perfume industry.

After an introduction on the history of perfumes and fragrances and on perfumery materials from natural plant sources, the longest chapter of the book covers the chemical synthesis of perfume ingredients, especially terpenoid ones. The in

Reviews from the 1st Edition ...

"very readable as well as being educational. Highly recommended!"

Organic Process Research and Development Vol 4 No 1 2000 p 60

The chemistry of fragrances. From perfumer to consumer

Charles Sell (ed)

Cambridge, UK; Royal Society of Chemistry ] 2006 ] 336pp ] ISBN 0854048243

Reviewed by David Chamberlin

... a good insight into the perfume industry

This book is unashamedly chemical, written by and for chemists. It is multi-authored, but all the contributors are currently or were previously employed by the same company, Quest International, giving a cohesive approach to the content. The editor, Charles Sell, welds the various chapters together to give a good insight into the perfume industry.

After an introduction on the history of perfumes and fragrances and on perfumery materials from natural plant sources, the longest chapter of the book covers the chemical synthesis of perfume ingredients, especially terpenoid ones. The industrial syntheses developed by the various companies in the fragrance business are well described in chemical and economic terms and accompanied by reaction sequences.

The rest of the book shows how these basic ingredients produced by the chemist are used to develop fragrance products through formulation, and outlines all the other issues that the industry has to consider such as fragrance perception, fragrance performance, stability testing, biodegradability, safety and toxicology.

A final section deals with the future search for new fragrance ingredients which the authors claim will involve chemists using their synthetic skills, inspired by nature, and aided by computers.

A sniff page isincluded, the scent of which lasts long enough for the reader to finish the book in a cloud of lavender.

Chemistry World 3, #12, 63, Dec 2006

Reviews from the 1st Edition ...

"very readable as well as being educational. Highly recommended!"

Organic Process Research and Development Vol 4 No 1 2000 p 60

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The Chemistry of Fragrances: From Perfumer to Consumer (Rsc Paperbacks)

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Modern perfumery is a blend of art, science and technology, with chemistry being the central science involved. The Chemistry of Fragrances aims to educate and entertain, and inform the audience of the very latest chemistry, techniques and tools applied to fragrance creativity. Beginning with the ...

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The Chemistry of Fragrances: From Perfumer to Consumer

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The Chemistry of Fragrances: From Perfumer to Consumer

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David Pybus, Ed.

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The Chemistry of Fragrances: From Perfumer to Consumer

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The authors are able to demonstrate that the chemistry of such tiny fragrant molecules can be very fascinating.....the book is a must for anyone with an interest in fragrances. It is simply fascinating!!

Reviews from the 1st Edition ...

"very readable as well as being educational. Highly recommended!"

Organic Process Research and Development Vol 4 No 1 2000 p 60

The chemistry of fragrances. From perfumer to consumer

Charles Sell (ed)

Cambridge, UK; Royal Society of Chemistry - 2006 - 336pp - ISBN 0854048243

Reviewed by David Chamberlin

... a good insight into the perfume industry

This book is unashamedly chemical, written by and for chemists. It is multi-authored, but all the contributors are currently or were previously employed by the same company, Quest International, giving a cohesive approach to the content. The editor, Charles Sell, welds the various chapters together to give a good insight into the perfume industry.

After an introduction on the history of perfumes and fragrances and on perfumery materials from natural plant sources, the longest chapter of the book covers the chemical synthesis of perfume ingredients, especially terpenoid ones. The in

Reviews from the 1st Edition ...

"very readable as well as being educational. Highly recommended!"

Organic Process Research and Development Vol 4 No 1 2000 p 60

The chemistry of fragrances. From perfumer to consumer

Charles Sell (ed)

Cambridge, UK; Royal Society of Chemistry ] 2006 ] 336pp ] ISBN 0854048243

Reviewed by David Chamberlin

... a good insight into the perfume industry

This book is unashamedly chemical, written by and for chemists. It is multi-authored, but all the contributors are currently or were previously employed by the same company, Quest International, giving a cohesive approach to the content. The editor, Charles Sell, welds the various chapters together to give a good insight into the perfume industry.

After an introduction on the history of perfumes and fragrances and on perfumery materials from natural plant sources, the longest chapter of the book covers the chemical synthesis of perfume ingredients, especially terpenoid ones. The industrial syntheses developed by the various companies in the fragrance business are well described in chemical and economic terms and accompanied by reaction sequences.

The rest of the book shows how these basic ingredients produced by the chemist are used to develop fragrance products through formulation, and outlines all the other issues that the industry has to consider such as fragrance perception, fragrance performance, stability testing, biodegradability, safety and toxicology.

A final section deals with the future search for new fragrance ingredients which the authors claim will involve chemists using their synthetic skills, inspired by nature, and aided by computers.

A sniff page isincluded, the scent of which lasts long enough for the reader to finish the book in a cloud of lavender.

Chemistry World 3, #12, 63, Dec 2006

Reviews from the 1st Edition ...

"very readable as well as being educational. Highly recommended!"

Organic Process Research and Development Vol 4 No 1 2000 p 60

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The Chemistry of Fragrances: From Perfumer to Consumer (Rsc Paperbacks)

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Modern perfumery is a blend of art, science and technology, with chemistry being the central science involved. The Chemistry of Fragrances aims to educate and entertain, and inform the audience of the very latest chemistry, techniques and tools applied to fragrance creativity. Beginning with the ...

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Arcadi Boix Camps

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n excellent aroma chemical encyclopedia for those involved in the specialized field of creating fragrances. A book that exudes one's pure heart and soul. Arcadi is light years ahead of his time and a already a legend in his own time. A book that any Perfumer would consult over and over. If you want to learn about the raw materials of perfumery, this is 'THE' book. So get your copy before they all are gone. Amazing work by an amazing Perfumer

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Perfumery: Techniques in Evolution - Second Edition

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n excellent aroma chemical encyclopedia for those involved in the specialized field of creating fragrances. A book that exudes one's pure heart and soul. Arcadi is light years ahead of his time and a already a legend in his own time. A book that any Perfumer would consult over and over.

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Arcadi Boix Camps

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n excellent aroma chemical encyclopedia for those involved in the specialized field of creating fragrances. A book that exudes one's pure heart and soul. Arcadi is light years ahead of his time and a already a legend in his own time. A book that any Perfumer would consult over and over. If you want to learn about the raw materials of perfumery, this is 'THE' book. So get your copy before they all are gone. Amazing work by an amazing Perfumer

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Perfumery: Techniques in Evolution - Second Edition

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n excellent aroma chemical encyclopedia for those involved in the specialized field of creating fragrances. A book that exudes one's pure heart and soul. Arcadi is light years ahead of his time and a already a legend in his own time. A book that any Perfumer would consult over and over.

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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

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Katy Kelleher

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About The Book

Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.
April recommended reading by the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Goodreads, Jezebel, Christian Science Monitor, All Arts,and the Next Big Idea Club
One of Curbed's and Globe and Mail's (Toronto) best books of the spring
A most anticipated book of 2023 by The Millions

Katy Kelleher has spent much of her life chasing beauty. As a child, she uprooted handfuls of purple, fragrant little flowers from the earth, plucked iridescent seashells from the beach, and dug for turquoise stones in her backyard. As a teenager she applied glittery shimmer to her eyelids after religiously dabbing on her signature scent of orange blossoms and jasmine. And as an adult, she coveted gleaming marble countertops and delicate porcelain to beautify her home. This obsession with beauty led her to become a home, garden, and design writer, where she studied how beautiful things are mined, grown, made, and enhanced. In researching these objects, Kelleher concluded that most of us are blind to the true cost of our desires. Because whenever you find something unbearably beautiful, look closer, and you'll inevitably find a shadow of decay lurking underneath.

In these dazzling and deeply researched essays, Katy Kelleher blends science, history, and memoir to uncover the dark underbellies of our favorite goods. She reveals the crushed beetle shells in our lipstick, the musk of rodents in our perfume, and the burnt cow bones baked into our dishware. She untangles the secret history of silk and muses on her problematic prom dress. She tells the story of countless workers dying in their efforts to bring us shiny rocks from unsafe mines that shatter and wound the earth, all because a diamond company created a compelling ad. She examines the enduring appeal of the beautiful dead girl and the sad fate of the ugly mollusk. With prose as stunning as the objects she describes, Kelleher invites readers to examine their own relationships with the beautiful objects that adorn their body and grace their homes.

And yet, Kelleher argues that while we have a moral imperative to understand our relationship to desire, we are not evil or weak for desiring beauty. The Ugly History of Beautiful Things opens our eyes to beauty that surrounds us, helps us understand how that beauty came to be, what price was paid and by whom, and how we can most ethically partake in the beauty of the world.

About The Author

Katy Kelleher is an art, design, nature, and science writer living in the woods of Maine. Her work has appeared in the pages of the New York Times, The Guardian, American Scholar, and Town & Country. She's written online for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Jezebel, and others. She's a frequent contributor to The Paris Review and spent several years writing a popular column on color, Hue's Hue. Her essays have been anthologized in both Best American Food Writing and Best American Science and Nature Writing.

Raves and Reviews

"There are writers you want to read on every subject, because they are able to whip up such stylish, intricate, and sparkling prose that they elevate every paragraph to an event. Katy Kelleher is such a writer - her sentences are as beautiful as the diamonds and marble surfaces she writes about, but contain far more depth. Her research shines through every page of this book without ever weighing it down. Kelleher has pulled off a magic trick: she has written a book that is both sumptuous and airy, rich and gossamer. I inhaled it." -Rachel Syme, Staff Writer, The New Yorker

"A lovely book. Kelleher's voice is curious and full of insight into the often dark histories of the things we call beautiful. By the end of this book, you'll want to go pick some flowers and listen to the ocean out of a conch shell, empowered by the knowledge of where that desire comes from." - Rax King, Author of Tacky and co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil

"Fascinating and richly researched. You'll never smell a rose or stroke a silk blouse quite the same way again - even if, like Kelleher, you can't stop loving them." - Alexandra Lange, author of Meet Me By the Fountain

"Katy Kelleher's The Ugly History of Beautiful Things is an astonishing accomplishment--for its insight, its honesty, and its willingness to ask difficult questions and probe the darkest corners of human nature for the answers. Without judgment or preciousness, Kelleher takes us on a journey into the complexity, power, necessity, and aliveness of beauty. This book's strengths are many, but above all, it is Kelleher's restless, thrilling curiosity itself--which she turns inward as much as outward--that will stay with readers long after they turn the last page." -Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty

"Fascinating, compelling, and at times unnerving-Kelleher's deep dive into the nature of beauty and the material reality that lurks beneath its surface lingers in your mind long after you've put it down." -Colin Dickey, author of Ghostland

"Kelleher has always been obsessed with beauty, and this poetic book is a careful study of its ambiguity and meaning." -Kirkus Reviews

"Kelleher's engrossing essays cogently explore the unsettling dichotomy between the precious and the problematic, the seedy and the sublime to vividly reveal the pleasures and perils in pursuit of ideal beauty. -Booklist (starred review)

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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

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Katy Kelleher

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About The Book

Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.
April recommended reading by the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Goodreads, Jezebel, Christian Science Monitor, All Arts,and the Next Big Idea Club
One of Curbed's and Globe and Mail's (Toronto) best books of the spring
A most anticipated book of 2023 by The Millions

Katy Kelleher has spent much of her life chasing beauty. As a child, she uprooted handfuls of purple, fragrant little flowers from the earth, plucked iridescent seashells from the beach, and dug for turquoise stones in her backyard. As a teenager she applied glittery shimmer to her eyelids after religiously dabbing on her signature scent of orange blossoms and jasmine. And as an adult, she coveted gleaming marble countertops and delicate porcelain to beautify her home. This obsession with beauty led her to become a home, garden, and design writer, where she studied how beautiful things are mined, grown, made, and enhanced. In researching these objects, Kelleher concluded that most of us are blind to the true cost of our desires. Because whenever you find something unbearably beautiful, look closer, and you'll inevitably find a shadow of decay lurking underneath.

In these dazzling and deeply researched essays, Katy Kelleher blends science, history, and memoir to uncover the dark underbellies of our favorite goods. She reveals the crushed beetle shells in our lipstick, the musk of rodents in our perfume, and the burnt cow bones baked into our dishware. She untangles the secret history of silk and muses on her problematic prom dress. She tells the story of countless workers dying in their efforts to bring us shiny rocks from unsafe mines that shatter and wound the earth, all because a diamond company created a compelling ad. She examines the enduring appeal of the beautiful dead girl and the sad fate of the ugly mollusk. With prose as stunning as the objects she describes, Kelleher invites readers to examine their own relationships with the beautiful objects that adorn their body and grace their homes.

And yet, Kelleher argues that while we have a moral imperative to understand our relationship to desire, we are not evil or weak for desiring beauty. The Ugly History of Beautiful Things opens our eyes to beauty that surrounds us, helps us understand how that beauty came to be, what price was paid and by whom, and how we can most ethically partake in the beauty of the world.

About The Author

Katy Kelleher is an art, design, nature, and science writer living in the woods of Maine. Her work has appeared in the pages of the New York Times, The Guardian, American Scholar, and Town & Country. She's written online for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Jezebel, and others. She's a frequent contributor to The Paris Review and spent several years writing a popular column on color, Hue's Hue. Her essays have been anthologized in both Best American Food Writing and Best American Science and Nature Writing.

Raves and Reviews

"There are writers you want to read on every subject, because they are able to whip up such stylish, intricate, and sparkling prose that they elevate every paragraph to an event. Katy Kelleher is such a writer - her sentences are as beautiful as the diamonds and marble surfaces she writes about, but contain far more depth. Her research shines through every page of this book without ever weighing it down. Kelleher has pulled off a magic trick: she has written a book that is both sumptuous and airy, rich and gossamer. I inhaled it." -Rachel Syme, Staff Writer, The New Yorker

"A lovely book. Kelleher's voice is curious and full of insight into the often dark histories of the things we call beautiful. By the end of this book, you'll want to go pick some flowers and listen to the ocean out of a conch shell, empowered by the knowledge of where that desire comes from." - Rax King, Author of Tacky and co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil

"Fascinating and richly researched. You'll never smell a rose or stroke a silk blouse quite the same way again - even if, like Kelleher, you can't stop loving them." - Alexandra Lange, author of Meet Me By the Fountain

"Katy Kelleher's The Ugly History of Beautiful Things is an astonishing accomplishment--for its insight, its honesty, and its willingness to ask difficult questions and probe the darkest corners of human nature for the answers. Without judgment or preciousness, Kelleher takes us on a journey into the complexity, power, necessity, and aliveness of beauty. This book's strengths are many, but above all, it is Kelleher's restless, thrilling curiosity itself--which she turns inward as much as outward--that will stay with readers long after they turn the last page." -Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty

"Fascinating, compelling, and at times unnerving-Kelleher's deep dive into the nature of beauty and the material reality that lurks beneath its surface lingers in your mind long after you've put it down." -Colin Dickey, author of Ghostland

"Kelleher has always been obsessed with beauty, and this poetic book is a careful study of its ambiguity and meaning." -Kirkus Reviews

"Kelleher's engrossing essays cogently explore the unsettling dichotomy between the precious and the problematic, the seedy and the sublime to vividly reveal the pleasures and perils in pursuit of ideal beauty. -Booklist (starred review)

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Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: Volume II - The Production, Manufacture and Application of Perfume

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Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: Volume II - The Production, Manufacture and Application of Perfume

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During the past decade there have been many changes in the perfumery industry which are not so much due to the discovery and application of new raw materials, but rather to the astronomic increase in the cost of labour required to produce them. This is reflected more particularly in the flower industry, where the cost of collecting the blossoms delivered to the factories has gone up year after year, so much so that most flowers with the possible exception of Mimosa, have reached a cost price which has compelled the perfumer to either reduce his purchases of absolutes and concretes, or alternatively to substitute them from a cheaper source, or even to discontinue their use. This development raises an important and almost insoluble problem for the perfumer, who is faced with the necessity of trying to keep unchanged the bouquet of his fragrances, and moreover, to ensure no loss of strength and diffusiveness. Of course, this problem applies more especially to the adjustment of formulae for established perfumes, because in every new creation the present high cost of raw materials receives imperative con sideration before the formula is approved.

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Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: Volume II The Production, Manufacture and Application of Perfumes

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Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: Volume I - The Raw Materials of Perfumery

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Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: Volume I - The Raw Materials of Perfumery

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W.A. Poucher

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It is now fifteen years since the last edition of this reference volume appeared and during this time new materials have appeared and some have fallen into disuse. The present edition is the result of much revision and some deletion and an effort has been made to bring the information up-to-date and in conformity with current practice. Of recent years several speciality materials have appeared, and a number of these are included where their chemical composition is known. Speciality materials of vague composition are not included. For many of the compounds listed several alternative names are in use, some of which from the chemist's point of view are either inadequate, ambiguous, or occasionally actually misleading. In this edition the compounds have been listed under names which are considered to be chemically satisfactory and which, at the same time, should be reasonably familiar to perfumers; they do not necessarily contain full information as to the structure of the com pound and they make free use of widely accepted trivial names. In most of the entries this is followed by a systematic name which defines the chemical structure, while synonyms which are in use, though sometimes chemically unsatisfactory, are given in brackets, with a cross-reference to the main entry. Prefixes denoting structural features, such as n-, iso-, cis-, trans-, 0-, m-, p-, and so on are disregarded in the alphabetical listing.

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Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: Volume I The Raw Materials of Perfumery

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It is now fifteen years since the last edition of this reference volume appeared and during this time new materials have appeared and some have fallen into disuse. The present edition is the result of much revision and some deletion and an effort has been made to bring the information up-to-date ...

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Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: Volume II - The Production, Manufacture and Application of Perfume

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Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: Volume II - The Production, Manufacture and Application of Perfume

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W. A. Poucher

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During the past decade there have been many changes in the perfumery industry which are not so much due to the discovery and application of new raw materials, but rather to the astronomic increase in the cost of labour required to produce them. This is reflected more particularly in the flower industry, where the cost of collecting the blossoms delivered to the factories has gone up year after year, so much so that most flowers with the possible exception of Mimosa, have reached a cost price which has compelled the perfumer to either reduce his purchases of absolutes and concretes, or alternatively to substitute them from a cheaper source, or even to discontinue their use. This development raises an important and almost insoluble problem for the perfumer, who is faced with the necessity of trying to keep unchanged the bouquet of his fragrances, and moreover, to ensure no loss of strength and diffusiveness. Of course, this problem applies more especially to the adjustment of formulae for established perfumes, because in every new creation the present high cost of raw materials receives imperative con sideration before the formula is approved.

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Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: Volume II The Production, Manufacture and Application of Perfumes

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During the past decade there have been many changes in the perfumery industry which are not so much due to the discovery and application of new raw materials, but rather to the astronomic increase in the cost of labour required to produce them. This is reflected more particularly in the flower in...

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Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: Volume I - The Raw Materials of Perfumery

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W.A. Poucher

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Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: Volume I - The Raw Materials of Perfumery

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It is now fifteen years since the last edition of this reference volume appeared and during this time new materials have appeared and some have fallen into disuse. The present edition is the result of much revision and some deletion and an effort has been made to bring the information up-to-date and in conformity with current practice. Of recent years several speciality materials have appeared, and a number of these are included where their chemical composition is known. Speciality materials of vague composition are not included. For many of the compounds listed several alternative names are in use, some of which from the chemist's point of view are either inadequate, ambiguous, or occasionally actually misleading. In this edition the compounds have been listed under names which are considered to be chemically satisfactory and which, at the same time, should be reasonably familiar to perfumers; they do not necessarily contain full information as to the structure of the com pound and they make free use of widely accepted trivial names. In most of the entries this is followed by a systematic name which defines the chemical structure, while synonyms which are in use, though sometimes chemically unsatisfactory, are given in brackets, with a cross-reference to the main entry. Prefixes denoting structural features, such as n-, iso-, cis-, trans-, 0-, m-, p-, and so on are disregarded in the alphabetical listing.

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Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps: Volume I The Raw Materials of Perfumery

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It is now fifteen years since the last edition of this reference volume appeared and during this time new materials have appeared and some have fallen into disuse. The present edition is the result of much revision and some deletion and an effort has been made to bring the information up-to-date ...

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René Maurice Gattefossé

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The first editions of our formulary, especially those of 1911 and

1920, had their merit; it was then a question of choosing and

devising a new approach.

Synthetic perfumes and terpeneless oils first appeared on the

market as curiosities, and flower absolutes extracted with volatile

solvents had hardly begun to replace pomades or enfleurage oils.

These new products appeared both daring and somewhat

startling to manufacturers who, still steeped in a mysterious,

traditional technique, were using a great variety of incompatible

ingredients.

We assumed, then, that they were a mark of progress and

simplification; did they not show a common characteristic of

maximum concentration? Unit weight of the synthetic perfume

was practically equal in fragrancy strength to a similar unit of

the flower extract obtained with volatile solvents or to unit,

weight of terpeneless oil from which the less active hydrocarbon

components had been removed in dilute alcohol.

Because of these new maximum strength fragrant materials

there was no need to standardise the pomade washings whose

"number" only indicated the number of kilogrammes of flowers

used in their preparation and not the actual concentration; it was

also necessary to ascertain the odour strength of fragrant oils; the

uniformity of strength of the main raw materials allowed the

preparation of a 100 per cent composition of odorous preparations

even if made up from raw materials from a variety of sources.

Some expensive synthetic perfumes-e.g., ionone-were still

sold in alcoholic solution; some crystalline products-e.g., synthetic

musks-were blended with several times their weight of

inert odourless materials. The manufacturers had to be stimulated

into supplying only pure materials.

The perfume manufacturers and chemists soon realised where

their interests lay and barely ten years were required to crystallise

the views which gave the French perfume industry its superiority.

Thus a new industry of completely artificial perfumes was born.

These perfumes only required dilution with alcohol to yield

commercial products such as extracts, lotions, etc. The factories

found it a rich source of business, especially the export to countries

in which the French "composition" still enjoyed very great

favour.

The wars, however, had a terrible effect on our national industries;

while we were busy defending our land and later regaining

our liberty, foreign factories, more favourably situated than

ours, exerted themselves to satisfy the world-wide demand of

customers and to supplant us. To what extent have they succeeded?

The answer lies in the future.

We yet have our reputation; the main French perfumes are

still recognised as the best by men and women of taste throughout

The present formulary does not teach the compounding art; it

is intended to keep the classical fundamental ideas, which we

stressed in our earlier publications, constantly in front of manufacturers.

The manual contains only typical examples of tested

formulations and methods of preparation. It does not contain

recipes which, slavishly followed, will yield perfumes similar to

those of our great compounders.

As perfumery is an art, it should be revealed to artists; oil, or

water-colour, painting manuals teach the holding of the brush

and the spreading of colours, but not the art of producing a masterpiece.

Our book will indicate how to handle odorant raw materials.

If the compounder has talent and has acquired the technique of

the art, then he will become an artist. When he has prepared a

formula on the lines indicated in one of the subsequent chapters,

and when he has memorised and classified the odours of various

ingredients, he will be able to assess the smell of a composition

and to relate it to his ideal; he will vary the proportions of the

ingredients if he thinks it desirable, or he may replace some with

other ingredients having a more subtle aroma. Ultimately he

obtains the odour he desires, and if this odour pleases a large

public he will become a "perfumer."

The manufacturer must realise that raw materials from different

sources differ in their characteristics; essential oils are all vegetable

products; there are essential oil soils just as there are vineyard

soils. A common oil, like thyme, has its aroma affected by such

factors as its botanical origin, its place and time of harvesting

and its distillation. When this well-known flower is not well distilled

an inferior oil results; if the distilled oil is unsuitably preserved,

or if it is adulterated, deterioration will occur.

Similar reservations apply to synthetic products; even though they are

chemically pure they may lack faultless purity of odour; during

their manufacture some fault, regarded as unimportant, may have

arisen, but this fault nevertheless detracts from the perfume's

final perfection. Lastly, the discovery of such odourless or practically

odourless derivatives such as ethyl benzoate or benzyl

benzoate permitted their use in blending, but by such blending

the olfactory strengths of the ingredients are proportionately

lowered. Watch must be kept on the quality and purity of the

raw materials. A low price for an ingredient is not a criterion of

its suitability; to the taster of fine wines and liqueurs price is a

secondary consideration if their quality satisfies him.

The best perfumery formulations are not derived from the best

formula; they are the inevitable result of the blending of faultless

ingredients. One day it will be desirable to lay down specifications

and limits for the origin of aromatic oils and to define their

botanical classifications. After all, such specifications exist for

branded chemical products.

A manual cannot impart this knowledge. It does, however,

constantly remind us that perfumes cannot be made with ordinary

ingredients of poor quality.

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Chemical Publishing is recognized worldwide as a leading publisher of professional, technical and reference books.

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René Maurice Gattefossé

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The first editions of our formulary, especially those of 1911 and

1920, had their merit; it was then a question of choosing and

devising a new approach.

Synthetic perfumes and terpeneless oils first appeared on the

market as curiosities, and flower absolutes extracted with volatile

solvents had hardly begun to replace pomades or enfleurage oils.

These new products appeared both daring and somewhat

startling to manufacturers who, still steeped in a mysterious,

traditional technique, were using a great variety of incompatible

ingredients.

We assumed, then, that they were a mark of progress and

simplification; did they not show a common characteristic of

maximum concentration? Unit weight of the synthetic perfume

was practically equal in fragrancy strength to a similar unit of

the flower extract obtained with volatile solvents or to unit,

weight of terpeneless oil from which the less active hydrocarbon

components had been removed in dilute alcohol.

Because of these new maximum strength fragrant materials

there was no need to standardise the pomade washings whose

"number" only indicated the number of kilogrammes of flowers

used in their preparation and not the actual concentration; it was

also necessary to ascertain the odour strength of fragrant oils; the

uniformity of strength of the main raw materials allowed the

preparation of a 100 per cent composition of odorous preparations

even if made up from raw materials from a variety of sources.

Some expensive synthetic perfumes-e.g., ionone-were still

sold in alcoholic solution; some crystalline products-e.g., synthetic

musks-were blended with several times their weight of

inert odourless materials. The manufacturers had to be stimulated

into supplying only pure materials.

The perfume manufacturers and chemists soon realised where

their interests lay and barely ten years were required to crystallise

the views which gave the French perfume industry its superiority.

Thus a new industry of completely artificial perfumes was born.

These perfumes only required dilution with alcohol to yield

commercial products such as extracts, lotions, etc. The factories

found it a rich source of business, especially the export to countries

in which the French "composition" still enjoyed very great

favour.

The wars, however, had a terrible effect on our national industries;

while we were busy defending our land and later regaining

our liberty, foreign factories, more favourably situated than

ours, exerted themselves to satisfy the world-wide demand of

customers and to supplant us. To what extent have they succeeded?

The answer lies in the future.

We yet have our reputation; the main French perfumes are

still recognised as the best by men and women of taste throughout

The present formulary does not teach the compounding art; it

is intended to keep the classical fundamental ideas, which we

stressed in our earlier publications, constantly in front of manufacturers.

The manual contains only typical examples of tested

formulations and methods of preparation. It does not contain

recipes which, slavishly followed, will yield perfumes similar to

those of our great compounders.

As perfumery is an art, it should be revealed to artists; oil, or

water-colour, painting manuals teach the holding of the brush

and the spreading of colours, but not the art of producing a masterpiece.

Our book will indicate how to handle odorant raw materials.

If the compounder has talent and has acquired the technique of

the art, then he will become an artist. When he has prepared a

formula on the lines indicated in one of the subsequent chapters,

and when he has memorised and classified the odours of various

ingredients, he will be able to assess the smell of a composition

and to relate it to his ideal; he will vary the proportions of the

ingredients if he thinks it desirable, or he may replace some with

other ingredients having a more subtle aroma. Ultimately he

obtains the odour he desires, and if this odour pleases a large

public he will become a "perfumer."

The manufacturer must realise that raw materials from different

sources differ in their characteristics; essential oils are all vegetable

products; there are essential oil soils just as there are vineyard

soils. A common oil, like thyme, has its aroma affected by such

factors as its botanical origin, its place and time of harvesting

and its distillation. When this well-known flower is not well distilled

an inferior oil results; if the distilled oil is unsuitably preserved,

or if it is adulterated, deterioration will occur.

Similar reservations apply to synthetic products; even though they are

chemically pure they may lack faultless purity of odour; during

their manufacture some fault, regarded as unimportant, may have

arisen, but this fault nevertheless detracts from the perfume's

final perfection. Lastly, the discovery of such odourless or practically

odourless derivatives such as ethyl benzoate or benzyl

benzoate permitted their use in blending, but by such blending

the olfactory strengths of the ingredients are proportionately

lowered. Watch must be kept on the quality and purity of the

raw materials. A low price for an ingredient is not a criterion of

its suitability; to the taster of fine wines and liqueurs price is a

secondary consideration if their quality satisfies him.

The best perfumery formulations are not derived from the best

formula; they are the inevitable result of the blending of faultless

ingredients. One day it will be desirable to lay down specifications

and limits for the origin of aromatic oils and to define their

botanical classifications. After all, such specifications exist for

branded chemical products.

A manual cannot impart this knowledge. It does, however,

constantly remind us that perfumes cannot be made with ordinary

ingredients of poor quality.

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Marie-Christine et Serge Mansau

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Sentir - Comment les odeurs agissent sur notre cerveau

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Sentir - Comment les odeurs agissent sur notre cerveau

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Hirac Gurden

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Sentir - Comment les odeurs agissent sur notre cerveau

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De tous nos sens, l’odorat est le moins connu : il est pourtant à la source même du plaisir ou du dégoût vis-à-vis d’un plat ou d’un aliment. C’est lui qui déclenche des souvenirs au passage d’une odeur ou d’un parfum, éveillant en nous une multitude d’émotions. C’est encore lui qui nous aide à comprendre la force du lien sensoriel entre une mère et son bébé. Et c’est toujours lui qui donne aux scientifiques des possibilités de dépister des cancers ou les maladies d’Alzheimer et de Parkinson. Spécialiste de l’odorat, Hirac Gurden explique comment les odeurs sont représentées dans le cerveau et comment nous utilisons les informations olfactives pour guider nos comportements. Dans ce texte accessible à tous, il décrit les découvertes scientifiques les plus récentes.

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Sentir - Comment les odeurs agissent sur notre cerveau

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Sentir - Comment les odeurs agissent sur notre cerveau

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Hirac Gurden

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Sentir - Comment les odeurs agissent sur notre cerveau

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De tous nos sens, l’odorat est le moins connu : il est pourtant à la source même du plaisir ou du dégoût vis-à-vis d’un plat ou d’un aliment. C’est lui qui déclenche des souvenirs au passage d’une odeur ou d’un parfum, éveillant en nous une multitude d’émotions. C’est encore lui qui nous aide à comprendre la force du lien sensoriel entre une mère et son bébé. Et c’est toujours lui qui donne aux scientifiques des possibilités de dépister des cancers ou les maladies d’Alzheimer et de Parkinson. Spécialiste de l’odorat, Hirac Gurden explique comment les odeurs sont représentées dans le cerveau et comment nous utilisons les informations olfactives pour guider nos comportements. Dans ce texte accessible à tous, il décrit les découvertes scientifiques les plus récentes.

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Chantal Jacquet

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Découvrir la noblesse de l’odorat et apprendre à être un philosophe nez : tel est le but de ce livre, qui fait d’un sens négligé un objet de réflexion à part entière. L’entreprise de réhabilitation de la sensibilité olfactive passe par la remise en cause des préjugés sur l’odorat comme sa prétendue…

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Chantal Jacquet

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Découvrir la noblesse de l’odorat et apprendre à être un philosophe nez : tel est le but de ce livre, qui fait d’un sens négligé un objet de réflexion à part entière. L’entreprise de réhabilitation de la sensibilité olfactive passe par la remise en cause des préjugés sur l’odorat comme sa prétendue…

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Chantal Jacquet

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Découvrir la noblesse de l’odorat et apprendre à être un philosophe nez : tel est le but de ce livre, qui fait d’un sens négligé un objet de réflexion à part entière. L’entreprise de réhabilitation de la sensibilité olfactive passe par la remise en cause des préjugés sur l’odorat comme sa prétendue…

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Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor

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Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor

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Arielle Johnson

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Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor

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An irreverent, accessible, essential guide to the science of flavor and how to use it in your own kitchen, from the food scientist-confidante of some of the world’s best chefs, Arielle Johnson, with more than 75 recipes—plus a foreword by René Redzepi. “Arielle changed the w

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Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor

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Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor

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Arielle Johnson

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Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor

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An irreverent, accessible, essential guide to the science of flavor and how to use it in your own kitchen, from the food scientist-confidante of some of the world’s best chefs, Arielle Johnson, with more than 75 recipes—plus a foreword by René Redzepi. “Arielle changed the w

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Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life

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Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life

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Theresa Levitt

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Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life

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A Financial Times and Scientific American Best Book of the Year.A story of alchemy in Bohemian Paris, where two scientific outcasts discovered a fundamental distinction between natural and synthetic chemicals that inaugurated an enduring scientific mystery.For centuries, scientists believed that living matter possessed a special quality—a spirit or essence—that differentiated it from nonliving matter. But by the nineteenth century, the scientific consensus was that the building blocks of one were identical to the building blocks of the other. Elixir tells the story of two young chemists who were not convinced, and how their work rewrote the boundary between life and nonlife.In the 1830s, Édouard Laugier and Auguste Laurent were working in Laugier Père et Fils, the oldest perfume house in Paris. By day they prepared the perfumery’s revitalizing elixirs and rejuvenating eaux, drawing on alchemical traditions that equated a plant’s vitality with its aroma. In their spare time they hunted the vital force that promised to reveal the secret to life itself. Their ideas, roundly condemned by established chemists, led to the discovery of structural differences between naturally occurring molecules and their synthetic counterparts, even when the molecules were chemically identical.Scientists still can’t explain this anomaly, but it may point to critical insights concerning the origins of life on Earth. Rich in sparks and smells, brimming with eccentric characters, experimental daring, and the romance of the Bohemian salon, Elixir is a fascinating cultural and scientific history.

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Victionary

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Packaged for Life: Scent

Packaging Design for Everyday Objects

In our haste to consume the things we love, we often disregard or discard packaging without a second thought. While many would argue that they bear no significance or should be done away with in our quest to save the environment, there is a lot more to packaging design than meets the eye. On top of conveying a brand's personality, purpose, or message meaningfully and embodying its contents in ways that catch the eye, a seemingly ordinary bottle or box can become an artist or designer's canvas for extraordinary creative expression.

Packaged for Life: Scent is a celebration of the products with the power to evoke a feeling, transport people in space and time, or create a distinct ambience through smell. Highlighting some of the best packaging design work from around the world for candles, incense, perfumes and more, it serves as a delightful source of inspiration for the senses.

Editor: victionary Language: English
Specs: 160 x 214 mm, 304 pp
Format: full colour, hard cover
Release date: Jul 2023

ISBN 978-988-75666-8-7

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Packaged for Life: Scent Packaging Design for Everyday Objects In our haste to consume the things we love, we often disregard or discard packaging without a second thought.

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Glamour Icons: Perfume Bottle Design by Marc Rosen

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Glamour Icons: Perfume Bottle Design by Marc Rosen

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Marc Rosen

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Conceived and written by seven-time FiFi Award winner and internationally renowned packaging designer Marc Rosen

Recognizes and celebrates perfume bottle design as an art form or "small pieces of glass architecture"

Glamour Icons is a collection of Marc Rosen's remarkable bottle designs, as well as a selection of perfume bottles from the last century that he considers iconic. It abounds with industry back stories never published before about working at his first job with Revlon founder the imperious Charles Revson, his career at Elizabeth Arden, his collaboration with the fashion houses of Chloé, Karl Lagerfeld, Fendi, Perry Ellis, Ellen Tracy, and Jill Stuart, as well as with celebrities such as Joan Rivers, Christina Aguilera and Celine Dion. The book recounts intriguing stories about working with Princess Grace of Monaco and Saudi Prince Fahad and about the experience that changed his life, working on a fragrance with Arlene Dahl, one of Hollywood's most glamorous leading ladies, and marrying her, as well.

Marc Rosen is the first perfume bottle designer to write a book about his craft, and to describe the design process from original sketches to models, to working with glass manufacturers on engineering drawings to actual production. He shares his insights into creating the logo, graphics, colors, boxes and counter displays, as well as the "theater of the launch." Glamour Icons documents perfume bottles, their history, their place in society and their inspiration. Illustrated with amazing photographs by Vincent Ricardel, the book also contains Rosen's personal photographs and artwork given to him by many of the people he has worked with.

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Edible Flowers: How, Why, and When We Eat Flowers

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Edible Flowers: How, Why, and When We Eat Flowers

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Monica Nelson

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About the book

A Monacelli Press title. A beautiful and illuminating guide to the use and cultural history of edible flowers, featuring gorgeous original photography, simple recipes and preparation methods, and thoughtful essays on eating flowers by leading voices.
This stunning guide to edible flowers-conceived by Monica Nelson, the founding creative and photo director of the influential journal Wilder Quarterly, and Adrianna Glaviano, a noted food and lifestyle photographer-is packed with information and features lush original photography.

Organizing more than 100 flowers alphabetically by their common name, the book offers handy notes including the flowers' Latin names, general flavor profiles, origins, blooming seasons, and which parts of the plants are edible, all accompanied by a vibrant photographic portrait. Punctuated by simple recipes and short, essayistic moments written by a diverse roster of celebrated chefs, artists, and writers recalling the use of edible flowers in their creative and gastronomic histories, Edible Flowers is both a practical primer and a delightful read.

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Format: Hardback

Size: 203 × 152 mm (8 × 6 in)

Pages: 260 pp

Illustrations: 150 illustrations

ISBN: 9781580935715

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Monica Nelson is a writer and graphic designer in New York. She has developed strategic visual narratives for publications, cultural institutions, and brands, among them Gap, Kate Spade, and Levis, working with over 100 photographers-some emerging, some Magnum. She was the founding creative and photo director of Wilder Quarterly, which fostered a floral-drenched view of the natural world.

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About the book A Monacelli Press title. A beautiful and illuminating guide to the use and cultural history of edible flowers, featuring gorgeous original photography, simple recipes and preparation methods, and thoughtful essays on eating flowers by leading voices.

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Edible Flowers: How, Why, and When We Eat Flowers

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Edible Flowers: How, Why, and When We Eat Flowers

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Monica Nelson

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About the book

A Monacelli Press title. A beautiful and illuminating guide to the use and cultural history of edible flowers, featuring gorgeous original photography, simple recipes and preparation methods, and thoughtful essays on eating flowers by leading voices.
This stunning guide to edible flowers-conceived by Monica Nelson, the founding creative and photo director of the influential journal Wilder Quarterly, and Adrianna Glaviano, a noted food and lifestyle photographer-is packed with information and features lush original photography.

Organizing more than 100 flowers alphabetically by their common name, the book offers handy notes including the flowers' Latin names, general flavor profiles, origins, blooming seasons, and which parts of the plants are edible, all accompanied by a vibrant photographic portrait. Punctuated by simple recipes and short, essayistic moments written by a diverse roster of celebrated chefs, artists, and writers recalling the use of edible flowers in their creative and gastronomic histories, Edible Flowers is both a practical primer and a delightful read.

Specifications:

Format: Hardback

Size: 203 × 152 mm (8 × 6 in)

Pages: 260 pp

Illustrations: 150 illustrations

ISBN: 9781580935715

About the author

Monica Nelson is a writer and graphic designer in New York. She has developed strategic visual narratives for publications, cultural institutions, and brands, among them Gap, Kate Spade, and Levis, working with over 100 photographers-some emerging, some Magnum. She was the founding creative and photo director of Wilder Quarterly, which fostered a floral-drenched view of the natural world.

Adrianna Glaviano is a photographer who collaborates with magazines and brands to shoot interiors, food, travel, art, architecture, and fashion. She is currently working on the forthcoming cookbook Green with artist Laila Gohar, to be published by Apartamento Studios. Other selected clients include Wall Street Journal, Apartamento, PIN-UP, The Gourmand, Wallpaper*, AD France, Casa Vogue, Swiss Airlines, and T Magazine.

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The GARDENS OF CHINA by Morris, Richard: new Hardcover (1983) | GoldenWavesOfBooks

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In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature’s Scents

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In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature’s Scents

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Dominique Roques

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In this intoxicating concoction of history, travelogue, and memoir, one of the perfume industry's leading scouts of natural ingredients tells the story of the precious ingredients needed to make our favorite fragrances.

Do you know how many flowers it takes to produce a kilo of rose oil? One million roses, each handpicked . When it comes to nature, Dominique Roques is a unique authority. He has spent the last thirty years working closely with local communities across the globe to establish a sustainable supply of natural ingredients crucial to perfume making.

From resin cultivated by traditional methods in El Salvador to rose oil distilleries in India as old as the Taj Mahal, his network reveals an elusive trade built on the fault lines of tradition and modernity. With In Search of Perfumes , Roques tells the story of seventeen of the industry's most precious ingredients-where they come from, their cultural and historic significance, and why we love them-from Indonesian patchouli to the "Damask rose," interweaving his own recollections and reflections on his life and work.

From Andalusia to Somaliland, Roques takes us on an exclusive tour of a vast but delicate ecosystem wholly sustained by the artisans who are its caretakers. Isolated and rural, the tropical jungles of northern Laos remain to this day the only source of benzoin that centuries earlier wafted through the air of Louis XIV's court. In Madagascar, where every transaction is made in cash, a caravan of porters carry pallets bearing $500,000 dollars to exchange for vanilla beans. The Venezuelan tonka bean, as fickle as the weather, may refuse to flower for years but is so esteemed by perfumers that patience becomes its truest virtue. Everywhere Roques takes us, his infectious curiosity and amiability illuminate an immersive world of the uncharted.

Entertaining and eye-opening, decorated with beautiful black-and-white illustrations, In Search of Perfumes is an irresistible exploration of the smells that fuel our nostalgia and suffuse our fantasies.

Translated from the French by Stephanie Smee

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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Transports of Delight: An Aromatic Journey in Verse from East to West on the Wings of Perfume

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Transports of Delight: An Aromatic Journey in Verse from East to West on the Wings of Perfume

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David Pybus, Ed.

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Scent from the Garden of Paradise. Musk and the Medieval Islamic World

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Scent from the Garden of Paradise. Musk and the Medieval Islamic World

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Anya H. King

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Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: About Musk and Its Terminology
Musk and Its Origin
Exploitation of Musk
Terminology for Musk

Chapter 2: Commodities of Further Asia in the Islamic World
Introduction
Central Eurasia
China
India
Southeast Asia
Place of Origin, "Brand", and Rank
The Impact of Commodity Knowledge in Adab
Conclusion

Chapter 3: History of Musk and the Musk Trade: From Asia to the Near East
Introduction
Musk in China
Musk in India
Musk in Tibet
Musk in Central Asia
Aromatics in the Persian World
Musk and Aromatics in Sasanian Persia
The Westward Spread of Musk in Antiquity
Conclusion

Chapter 4: Islamicate Knowledge of Musk and Musk-Producing Lands
Arabic Terminology relating to Musk
Persian Terminology for Musk
Sources of Musk: Middle Eastern Knowledge of the Geography of the Musk Producing Lands and the Origins of Musk
Toponyms and Sources
The Islamicate Understanding of the Production of Musk
Conclusion

Chapter 5: The Merchant World and the Musk Trade
Musk Producers and the Trade
Tribute and Royal Gift-Giving
Routes and Emporiums
Merchants
Data on the Commerce in Musk
Perfumers and Pharmacists
Adulteration and Imitation of Musk
Conclusion

Chapter 6: Musk in Daily Life in the Early Medieval Islamic World
Introduction
Arabic and Persian Perfumes
Incense
Unguents
Scented Powders
Oils and Waters
Musk and Men
Musk and Women
Musk and Medicine: Pharmaceutical Specifications of Musk
Pharmaceutical Applications of Musk
Musk in Food and Drink
Conclusion

Chapter 7: The Symbolic Importance of Musk in Islamic Culture
The Primacy of Musk among Aromatics in Islamic Culture
Symbolic Meanings of Musk in Medieval Islamic Culture
Musk and Kingship
Musk and Islam
Musk and the Garden

Conclusion
Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Illustration 1. Musk deer.
Illustration 2. The musk apparatus.
Illustration 3. Musk pods.

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Studies in Ancient Technology, Volume 3 Cosmetics and Perfumes in Antiquity:Food, Alcoholic Beverages, Vinegar: Fermented Beverages 500 B.C.-500 A.D.: Crushing; Salts, Preservation Processes, Mummification: Paints, Pigments, Inks and Varnishes

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Enter the unexpected and intriguing realm of scent, where fragrances have the power to calm as well as to stimulate. These tales from the ancient quest for pleasing aromas offer a microcosm of history's larger movements, from the scented sails of Cleopatra's barges to modern-day fashion trends. pursues its subject's very essence, with a rich panoply of insights that ranges from the botanical origins of fragrant oils and the role of aromatics in economic and religious life to the ways in which scents influence behavior and chemists extract, preserve, and reproduce fragrances. A fascinating stirring of the senses.
This book is more than a historical overview of one of the world's oldest industries, although it's comprehensive, well-researched, and scrupulously accurate in its details. Neither is it just a book of pretty pictures, even though it's abundantly illustrated with lovely drawings and photographs that include every variety of perfume bottle, ads, paintings, as well as famous (and infamous) figures. Fragrance

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Comprehensively teaches all of the fundamentals of fragrance chemistry Ernest Beaux, the perfumer who created Chanel No. 5, said, "One has to rely on chemists to find new aroma chemicals creating new, original notes. In perfumery, the future lies primarily in the hands of chemists." This book pro...

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A wonderfully compelling novel about desire, loneliness and the impact of time on relationships from the author of Paris Mon Amour

"It is very, very good - an intense and unflinching expose of desire and its legacy" - Elizabeth Buchan

"A skilled storyteller. Inventive, vivid and distinctive" - Mary Loudon

"Vividly passionate, this is assured, addictive precision storytelling. Costello's prose is reminiscent of masters like Leila Slimane - but her voice is entirely unique. Thrillingly stylish." - Daisy Buchanan

"Costello poses unwavering questions about choice and honesty, about submerging pain to orchestrate survival." - Catherine McNamara

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A wonderfully compelling novel about desire, loneliness and the impact of time on relationships from the author of Paris Mon Amour.
'Vividly passionate...Thrillingly stylish' Daisy Buchanan
Every day in Paris carries proof that love exists, in the air, on the streets and behind closed doors. Just not mine.
The cracks in Clémentine and Édouard's marriage are becoming impossible to ignore. Her work as a perfumer is no longer providing solace and her sense of self is withering. Then, decades after the end of a bisexual love triangle, Clémentine's former lover resurfaces. What does she want, if not revenge?
Set in Paris and Provence, this is a beautifully written, intimate portrait of a woman navigating conflicting desires whilst dreaming of a fulfilling future.

Isabel Costello's first novel Paris Mon Amour was published to great acclaim in 2016 and her short fiction has appeared in many anthologies including Queer Life, Queer Love. She is a creative writing tutor and mentor and runs the popular Literary Sofa blog. Isabel lives in London and has lifelong connections with France.

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About The Book

The first aromatherapy guide to synthesize Eastern and Western approaches to restoring emotional and mental health.

* Explains the esoteric and energetic healing properties of 40 essential oils to help restore balance to the body and psyche.

* Provides help for a wide range of common emotional and mental complaints.

* Includes full-color illustrations to guide readers through the massage and acupressure sequences.

In this unique synthesis of Eastern and Western healing approaches, Gabriel Mojay combines the practice of aromatherapy with the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine. Mojay explains the esoteric and energetic healing properties of 40 essential oils and shows how they can be used to manipulate qi, the body's vital energy, to stimulate healing from negative emotional and mental states. Some forms of nervous tension, for example, are caused by stagnant qi energy, which can be released with essential oils.

Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit provides help for a wide range of common emotional and mental complaints--including depression, low energy, lack of concentration, poor memory, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Easy-to-reference charts and full-color illustrations teach simple aromatherapeutic massage and acupressure techniques that restore balance to the body and psyche.

About The Author

Gabriel Mojay is a registered practitioner of aromatherapy, shiatsu, acupuncture, and medical herbalism. He is the principal of the Institute of Traditional Herbal Medicine and Aromatherapy and founding chairman of the Register for Qualified Aromatherapists. He lives in California.

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Publisher: Healing Arts Press (January 1, 2000)

Length: 192 pages

ISBN13: 9780892818877

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"Gabriel Mojay provides a wealth of information in an easy-to-read package."

- Better Homes MindBodySpirit

"Wonderfully comprehensive and clearly presented."

- Kindred Spirit

"An important and timely contribution to the understanding of essential oils."

- Seza Eccles, Aromathereapy Quarterly

"A very useful and practical addition for any aromatherapist's library."

- Positive Health

"A very thorough informational guide to the spiritual and psychological benefits of essential oils. The book is beautifully illustrated and makes a valuable contribution to holistic health and well-being."

- Spectrum, May/June 2000

"Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit is an excellent resource for anyone interested in expanding his or her devotional life through the senses."

- Spiritualityhealth.com

"A comprehensive introduction to aromatherapy that also contains a wealth of knowledge for experienced aromatherapy practitioners."

- New Age Retailer, October 2000

"Mojay blends a knowledge of Chinese Medicine with the practice of aromatherapy to treat the body, mind and spirit. Mojay shows how to blend oils, and then suggests various blends for emotional ailments-such as tension, agitation, worry-as well as oils to promote good relationships."

- Bodhi Tree Book Review, Issue Number 24

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Jean de Bosschère unit à l'exaltation de l'amoureux la précision scientifique d'un fils de botaniste. Philippe Jacottet.

" Du Lis dont je veux parler ici, j'ai gardé une image vivante dans mes souvenirs. Sa fleur ressuscite devant moi, plus nette que les portraits des êtres humains qui m'entouraient aux mêmes temps que cette plante. Ne m'était-elle plus chère que ceux-là ? L'habitude avait-elle émoussé la tendresse que j'avais éprouvée pour mes compagnons ? Pour répondre à cette question, je ne crois pas qu'il faille donner de l'importance au facteur durée, mais considérer seulement celui de l'intensité. "

Un homme peut-il devenir l'ami des fleurs de son jardin ? S'attacher à un Lis, comparer une Pensée au casque de Pallas, admirer les yeux du Myosotis ? Jean de Bosschère aime les fleurs de la manière la plus touchante. Et c'est tout le regard de l'homme sur le jardin qui s'en trouve ébloui, irrémédiablement changé.
Jean de Bosschère (1878-1953) est un peintre, romancier et poète belge, ami d'Antonin Artaud, d'André Suarès, de T.S. Elliot et de Balthus.
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Peintre, romancier et poète, l'auteur décrit les plantes qu'il aime, leur parfum, et ses expériences de jardinage, partage au passage ses réflexions sur la botanique, dans un style atypique et foisonnant.
L'Ami des jardins et de la maison - 01/08/2015

Un texte luxuriant où les mots sont l'expression de ce qu'il faut bien appeler un sentiment amoureux pour les fleurs. Plus jamais vous ne regarderez un jardin, un brin d'herbe, un arbre de la même manière.
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Jean De Bosschère

Jean de Bosschère (1878 - 1953) est un peintre, romancier et poète d'origine belge, " paria des Lettres françaises ", laissant une œuvre multiple. Ami d'Antonin Artaud, André Suarès, T.S. Elliot ou encore Balthus, il a participé, avec discrétion et tourments, aux grands courants artistiques de son époque.Son premier livre de nature, inspiré par son amour pour la campagne romaine, Les Paons et autres merveilles (La Différence, 1999), amorce un tournant dans son œuvre et confirme son style luxuriant et ardent. Parmi ses titres également disponibles, retenons Satan l'Obscur (La Différence, 1990), Dressé, actif, j'attends (La Différence, 1991), Max Elskamp (La Différence, 1990), L'Obscur à Paris (La Différence, 1991), Marthe et l'enragé (L. Pire, 2010).

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Jean de Bosschère unit à l'exaltation de l'amoureux la précision scientifique d'un fils de botaniste. Philippe Jacottet. " Du Lis dont je veux parler ici, j'ai gardé une image vivante dans mes souvenirs. Sa fleur ressuscite devant moi, plus nette que les portraits des êtres humains qui m'entouraient aux mêmes temps que cette plante.

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Jean de Bosschère unit à l'exaltation de l'amoureux la précision scientifique d'un fils de botaniste. Philippe Jacottet.

" Du Lis dont je veux parler ici, j'ai gardé une image vivante dans mes souvenirs. Sa fleur ressuscite devant moi, plus nette que les portraits des êtres humains qui m'entouraient aux mêmes temps que cette plante. Ne m'était-elle plus chère que ceux-là ? L'habitude avait-elle émoussé la tendresse que j'avais éprouvée pour mes compagnons ? Pour répondre à cette question, je ne crois pas qu'il faille donner de l'importance au facteur durée, mais considérer seulement celui de l'intensité. "

Un homme peut-il devenir l'ami des fleurs de son jardin ? S'attacher à un Lis, comparer une Pensée au casque de Pallas, admirer les yeux du Myosotis ? Jean de Bosschère aime les fleurs de la manière la plus touchante. Et c'est tout le regard de l'homme sur le jardin qui s'en trouve ébloui, irrémédiablement changé.
Jean de Bosschère (1878-1953) est un peintre, romancier et poète belge, ami d'Antonin Artaud, d'André Suarès, de T.S. Elliot et de Balthus.
Presse

Peintre, romancier et poète, l'auteur décrit les plantes qu'il aime, leur parfum, et ses expériences de jardinage, partage au passage ses réflexions sur la botanique, dans un style atypique et foisonnant.
L'Ami des jardins et de la maison - 01/08/2015

Un texte luxuriant où les mots sont l'expression de ce qu'il faut bien appeler un sentiment amoureux pour les fleurs. Plus jamais vous ne regarderez un jardin, un brin d'herbe, un arbre de la même manière.
Books - 01/05/2015

Biographies Contributeurs

Jean De Bosschère

Jean de Bosschère (1878 - 1953) est un peintre, romancier et poète d'origine belge, " paria des Lettres françaises ", laissant une œuvre multiple. Ami d'Antonin Artaud, André Suarès, T.S. Elliot ou encore Balthus, il a participé, avec discrétion et tourments, aux grands courants artistiques de son époque.Son premier livre de nature, inspiré par son amour pour la campagne romaine, Les Paons et autres merveilles (La Différence, 1999), amorce un tournant dans son œuvre et confirme son style luxuriant et ardent. Parmi ses titres également disponibles, retenons Satan l'Obscur (La Différence, 1990), Dressé, actif, j'attends (La Différence, 1991), Max Elskamp (La Différence, 1990), L'Obscur à Paris (La Différence, 1991), Marthe et l'enragé (L. Pire, 2010).

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La Fleur et son parfum - Jean De Bosschère

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Jean de Bosschère unit à l'exaltation de l'amoureux la précision scientifique d'un fils de botaniste. Philippe Jacottet. " Du Lis dont je veux parler ici, j'ai gardé une image vivante dans mes souvenirs. Sa fleur ressuscite devant moi, plus nette que les portraits des êtres humains qui m'entouraient aux mêmes temps que cette plante.

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Michel & Sebastian Bras

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Le Suquet, the restaurant founded by Michel Bras and now run by his son Sebastien, makes full use of its location in a small village. The restaurant supplies itself from large and active gardens of its own. And in this book chefs and gardeners alike can tour them through an account of more than 250…

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Michel & Sebastian Bras

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Le Suquet, the restaurant founded by Michel Bras and now run by his son Sebastien, makes full use of its location in a small village. The restaurant supplies itself from large and active gardens of its own. And in this book chefs and gardeners alike can tour them through an account of more than 250…

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Michel & Sebastian Bras

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Le Suquet, the restaurant founded by Michel Bras and now run by his son Sebastien, makes full use of its location in a small village. The restaurant supplies itself from large and active gardens of its own. And in this book chefs and gardeners alike can tour them through an account of more than 250…

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Le goût du chocolat: L'art de vivre au siècle des Lumières

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Le goût du chocolat: L'art de vivre au siècle des Lumières

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Piero Camporesi

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Le goût du chocolat: L'art de vivre au siècle des Lumières

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Tel un voyageur gastronome, Piero Camporesi nous entraîne à travers le paysage sensuel de la cuisine des Lumières. Le raffinement des sociétés galantes s'incarne dans ce goût du chocolat, auquel on prête les vertus les plus fantaisistes. Ce chapitre de l'histoire des mentalités jette un regard fr...

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Le goût du chocolat: L'art de vivre au siècle des Lumières

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Le goût du chocolat: L'art de vivre au siècle des Lumières

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Piero Camporesi

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Le goût du chocolat: L'art de vivre au siècle des Lumières

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Le goût du chocolat: L'art de vivre au siècle des Lumières

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Le goût du chocolat: L'art de vivre au siècle des Lumières

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Tel un voyageur gastronome, Piero Camporesi nous entraîne à travers le paysage sensuel de la cuisine des Lumières. Le raffinement des sociétés galantes s'incarne dans ce goût du chocolat, auquel on prête les vertus les plus fantaisistes. Ce chapitre de l'histoire des mentalités jette un regard fr...

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The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species

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The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species

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Carlos Magdalena

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Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects

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Edward Posnett

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Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects

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