Everything from herbal oils, bath salts, and incense to inks, roots, and dried herbs is discussed in this informative encyclopedia, wherein magic becomes an extension of spirituality or meditation. The first rule of magic is "harm no one," and in those terms magic begins to make sense from a holistic/healing standpoint, linking herbology, ...
A story about an 18th-century foundling, Jean Baptiste Grenouille - a monster, a murderer - obsessed with smell. To create the perfect perfume he must gather the scent from a number of beautiful girls, and to gather this scent he must first kill them.
Robbins calls Jitterbug Perfume "an epic". It is also a saga, and a saga must have a hero. The hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a great-horned god. Some people actually believe that the liquid in the bottle is--the secret essence of the universe?
An engaging exploration of the cutting-edge science of olfaction by a celebrated biophysicist who has attempted to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the body: how smell works.
When powerful businessman Carson Brooks is seriously injured in an assassination attempt he sends his lawyer, Dylan Newport, on a sensitive mission: to find the child he fathered (via an anonymous sperm donation) 28 years ago. Dylan quickly manages to track down Carson's child, now a beautiful and savvy businesswoman named Sabrina Radcliffe, and ...
Turin, a renowned scientist, and Sanchez, a longtime perfume critic, review more than 1,200 fragrances, separating the divine from the good and the monumentally awful.
Demystifying an age-old craft, Webb offers step-by-step diagrams, work-in-progress photos, and easy-to-follow recipes for successfully creating soaps, colognes, potpourris, and more! The author discusses in detail how to use flowers, fruits, spices, and herbs to make a variety of useful, naturally scented products.
Lytteltonas passion for fragrance inspired her to have a signature perfume created just for heraand then to embark on the ultimate olfactory odyssey. Armed with a list of ingredients, she tracked down each component of her scent, tracing its origins, history, and culture. From the iris fields of Tuscany to the vetivert distilleries of India, ...
From the "New York Times" perfume critic comes a stylish, fascinating, unprecedented insiders view of an industry and its charismatic characters. Writing with wit and elegance, Burr juxtaposes the stories of two perfumes--one created for a luxury-goods house, the other made by a giant international corporation.
83 original recipes for potpourris and pomanders, perfumes and sweet waters, conserves, sauce eglantine, rossoly, rose jelly, rose hip marmalade, rose hip tarts, pickled rosebuds, rose and fruit salad, and more.
Ancient Egyptians at all levels of society were extremely concerned with scent and cleanliness and used an array of aromatics and essential oils to suit all occasions, both in this life and the next. Joann Fletcher investigates the extensive evidence in artistic, literary and archaeological sources and provides a guide to various oils and perfumes ...
Discover the satisfaction of creating and making your very own personal fragrances in perfumes, splashes, and colognes. Here are step-by-step instructions and easy recipes for creating custom blends.
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. This book is more than a historical overview of one ...
The art of modern fragrance-making owes much to practices developed in ancient Egypt. The Egyptians attached great importance to perfumes and cosmetics, which men and women wore to make themselves attractive and alluring, to restore vitality and good health, and as a means of venerating the gods and of negotiating a passage to the realm of the ...
Perfume bottles have been used since antiquity, but their history in modern times has been marked by the creation of exciting and original forms highlighted by equally elaborate presentations. Specially designed bottles and stoppers, labels, boxes and other unique decorative features endowed each perfume with an aura of distinction and exclusivity ...
Instructions for creating a variety of fragrances, shampoos, splashes, and soaps at home are included. A special section details the techniques of the world's most famous fragrance producers and traces perfume history. 100 color illustrations.
The hunt is on to capture "the very breath of beauty" and secure the success of struggling perfumers Cassie and Nick Dixon. When the fragrance "Cassandra" is at last unveiled, the public goes wild. Then "Cassandra" starts to wreak havoc, and the Dixons must face their inner demons before it's too late ...
Written by an acknowledged authority on the subject, this book presents a comprehensive photographic and historical review of over 150 years of creativity, showing almost 1,300 objects produced for the perfume industry during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Perfume takes the reader behind the scenes to watch how the elements of perfume are harvested and processed. This book with oversize pages contains stunning colour photographs.'
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