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' aphrodisiacs l[...]
The "Alice Waters of American natural perfume" (indieperfume.com) celebrates our most potent sense, through five rock stars of the fragrant world.
Mandy Aftel is widely acclaimed as a trailblazer in natural perfumery. Over two decades of sourcing the finest aromatic ingredients from all over th[...]
Detta är en bok om parfymens kulturhistoria, psykologi och filosofi. Men också en handbok om hur man blir parfymör. Mandy Aftel presenterar parfymens utveckling, från palatsparfymörerna i Egypten till alkemisternas experimenterande fram till idag. Hon visar upp en värld där doften besjöngs a[...]