essence & alchemy a natural history of perfume

She also has a line of ready-to-wear liquid and solid perfumes that can be found at her website at Ms. Mandy Aftel is the founder of Aftelier Perfumes, through which she creates one-of-a-kind perfumes for individuals and businesses. In Essence and Alchemy, Mandy Aftel unearths a forgotten world of natural essences and its profound resonance with body, mind, and spirit. Essence And Alchemy A Natural History Of Perfume is genial in our digital library an online entry to it is set as public fittingly you can download it instantly. Yet in many ways perfumery, with its creative and sensual possibilities, is a lost art.

' compulsively readable compendium of perfume legend, lore, and instruction.' -San Francisco Chronicleįor centuries people have taken instinctive pleasure in rubbing scents into their skin, using them to pray, to heal, and to make love and war. brings sheer delight in the bouquet of aromas in the natural world.' -Publishers Weekly 'To this most extraordinary treatise on the history and making of perfume, Aftel. Mandy Aftel, in case you haven’t heard, is THE original natural perfumer of our time & author to so many wonderful natural perfumery books, like Essence & Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume, and her newest, Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent (you can snag signed copies from Mandy directly here). brings sheer delight in the bouquet of aromas in the natural world.' -Publishers Weekly' compulsively readable compendium of perfume legend, lore, and instruction. 'To this most extraordinary treatise on the history and making of perfume, Aftel.

Essence & alchemy a natural history of perfume