
Publishers Weekly called this unique title an extraordinary treatise on the history and making of perfume and hails author Mandy Aftel's ability to bring sheer delight in the bouquet of aromas in the natural world and her irreverent sensibility that embraces 'little-acknowledged'...

An artisan perfumer reveals a lost art and its mysterious, sensual history. For centuries, people have taken what seems to be an instinctive pleasure in rubbing scents into their skin. Perfume has helped them to pray, to heal, and to make love. And as long as there has been perfume,...



For centuries, people have taken what seems to be an instinctive pleasure in rubbing scents into their skin, and using them to pray, to heal, and to make love. Yet in many ways perfumery is a lost art, its creative and sensual possibilities eclipsed by the dominance of synthetic...

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