Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent

By Mandy Aftel

Winner of the 2016 Perfumed Plume Award

The “Alice Waters of yankee traditional body spray” (indieperfume.com) celebrates our so much effective experience, via 5 rock stars of the aromatic international.
 
Mandy Aftel is greatly acclaimed as a trailblazer in average perfumery. Over 20 years of sourcing the best fragrant constituents from around the world and growing artisanal fragrances, she has been an evangelist for the transformative energy of odor. In Fragrant, via 5 significant gamers within the epic of aroma, she explores the profound connection among our experience of odor and the appetites that flow us, provide us excitement, make us totally alive. Cinnamon, queen of the Spice path, touches our starvation for the unknown, the unique, the luxury. Mint, homegrown internationally, speaks to our affinity for the popular, the local, the actual. Frankincense, an historical incense element, faucets into our eager for transcendence, whereas ambergris embodies our unquenchable interest. and beautiful jasmine exemplifies our longing for attractiveness, either evanescent and enduring.
 
In addition to offering a riveting initiation into the historical past, ordinary historical past, and philosophy of odor, Fragrant imparts the necessities of smell literacy and comprises recipes for easy-to-make fragrances and safe to eat, drinkable, and valuable concoctions that display the inventive chances of growing with—and reveling in—aroma. classic line drawings make for a quantity that might be a valuable reward in addition to a very good learn.

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See CO2 extracts Cardamom, 23, 43–44, 60, sixty three, seventy seven, a hundred and one, a hundred and twenty, 148 Cardiff collage, 139 Carles, Jean, 116 providers, sixty seven, sixty nine Carthage, 181 Cassia, 38, forty, forty three, forty four, forty nine, fifty eight, 154 adulteration of cinnamon with, forty seven in universal food and drinks, one hundred and one in body spray recipe given to Moses, 56–57, 134 in smelling salts, sixty three Castor, forty three Castoreum, 162, 171, 186–87, 189, a hundred ninety Cayenne, forty seven Cedarwood, 149–50, a hundred and fifty five, 189, 199 Celery and celery seed, a hundred and one Celsus, forty three Cèpes, 196, two hundred, 201 Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 37–39, forty-one, 164 Chameleon fragrance, 197–99 Champaca, four, 32 Chanel, Coco, fifty four, 111 Charles I, (king), ninety Chase, “Dr. ” A. W. , 94–97 Cheeses, 27, fifty five Chewing gum, ninety seven, 99–100, 102, 114 Chez Panisse (Berkeley), 6, one hundred and five Chia, ninety one Chicle, ninety nine China, 38, forty, 87, 129, a hundred thirty, 143–45, 183, 188 historical, 129, 181 Chocolate, 12, fifty five, 111, 201 flavorings for, 26, seventy five. See additionally particular flavors medicinal makes use of of, 179 in perfumes, 148, 2 hundred Choya, 32, 189, 193, 196 Choya loban, 32 Choya nakh, 189 Christianity, 135–36 Chypre, 149 Cinnamologus, 28 Cinnamon, 18, 28, 35–44, fifty five, eighty one, 137, one hundred seventy, 173 adulteration of, forty seven in historic international, 35–36 institutions to, 10, 32 as flavoring, fifty four, 76–77, 201 in body spray recipe given to Moses, fifty seven, 134 in perfumes, 61–63, 71–75, 148, 196 rate of, 37–38, forty six in spice exchange, 36–38, 42–43, forty six, forty nine diversifications of, 40–41, 58–60 “Cinnamon Peeler, The” (Ondaatje), 31, 39–40 Citrus, 155–56, 199, 235 peel, 22, 23, 25 See additionally particular citrus culmination Civet, thirteen, 32, seventy five, 149, 162, 171, 173, 183–85 as flavoring, ninety nine, 179, 195 Classen, Constance, 16–17 Cleopatra, fifty seven Clinopodium douglasii, ninety two Clocks, 142–45 incense, 143 Cloves, a hundred thirty, 148, 149, 173, 196, 231 as flavoring, one zero one in incense, 217 medicinal makes use of of, one hundred fifteen Coca-Cola, seventy seven, ninety nine Coconut oil, ninety one (see additionally Fractionated coconut oil) Coconut shells, floor, adulteration with, forty seven espresso, 27, seventy six, 139, 148, 179, 200–201, 222 espresso beans, 6, 21 Cognac, one zero one, 119, 148 Cohen, Leonard, 229 Colgate toothpaste, a hundred Columbus, Christopher, 32–33 Concretes, 24, 60, sixty seven Constantinople, forty four conference on overseas alternate in Endangered Species of untamed wildlife (1973), 183 Cooley, Arnold James, a hundred and fifteen, 149, 173 Cooling Cups and Dainty beverages (Gray), 25, 121, 156 Corbin, Alain, 206–7 Coriander, 23, 60, ninety three, one hundred and one Corn mint, 114 Cosmographie Universelle, los angeles (Thevet), 122 Costus, 32, forty three, 149, 193, 199 CO2 extracts, 24–25, 60, sixty two, 152, 153, 2 hundred Coumarin, fifty one Crateuas, forty three Cree tribe, 168, 186 Crème de Menthe, 121 Cumin, 22, seventy six, a hundred and twenty Cyprus, 149 Cyrene, 34 Dannenfeldt, Karl H. , 184 Darwin, Charles, 190–91 Deer, 165–66 Musk deer, 171, 182–83 De Medicina (Celsus), forty three De Mente, Boyé Lafayette, 217 Delightes for the women (Plat), 180–81 Dickens, Charles, 206 Dick’s Encyclopedia, recipe for scented ink, 183 Diderot, Denis, 110–11 “Diderot effect,” 110–11 Dijon (France), 45–46 Dillweed, one hundred and one Dioscorides, ninety, 189 Distillation, iv, 23–24, 40–41, sixty seven, ninety eight, a hundred and forty, 208–9, 232 Dixon Encyclopedia, recipe for common Wound Balsam, 132 DNA, 12, 139 cultural, 14 Dr.

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