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Essence and Alchemy

Author : Mandy Aftel
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 1429936126
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Essence and Alchemy written by Mandy Aftel and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, there have been perfumers, or rather the priests, shamans, and apothecaries who were their predecessors. Yet, in many ways, perfumery is a lost art, its creative and sensual possibilities eclipsed by the synthetic ingredients of which contemporary perfumes are composed, which have none of the subtlety and complexity of essences derived from natural substances, nor their lush histories. Essence and Alchemy resurrects the social and metaphysical legacy that is entwined with the evolution of perfumery, from the dramas of the spice trade to the quests of the alchemists to whom today's perfumers owe a philosophical as well as a practical debt. Mandy Aftel tracks scent through the boudoir and the bath and into the sanctums of worship, offering insights on the relationship of scent to sex, solitude, and the soul. Along the way, she imparts instruction in the art of perfume compositions, complete with recipes, guiding the reader in a process of transformation of materials that continues to follow the alchemical dictum solve et coagula (dissolve and combine) and is itself aesthetically and spiritually transforming.

Fragrant

Author : Mandy Aftel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594631417
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Fragrant written by Mandy Aftel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Perfumed Plume Award The “Alice Waters of American natural perfume” (indieperfume.com) and author of the Art of Flavor 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 the world and creating artisanal fragrances, she has been an evangelist for the transformative power of scent. In Fragrant, through five major players in the epic of aroma, she explores the profound connection between our sense of smell and the appetites that move us, give us pleasure, make us fully alive. Cinnamon, queen of the Spice Route, touches our hunger for the unknown, the exotic, the luxurious. Mint, homegrown the world over, speaks to our affinity for the familiar, the native, the authentic. Frankincense, an ancient incense ingredient, taps into our longing for transcendence, while ambergris embodies our unquenchable curiosity. And exquisite jasmine exemplifies our yearning for beauty, both evanescent and enduring. In addition to providing a riveting initiation into the history, natural history, and philosophy of scent, Fragrant imparts the essentials of scent literacy and includes recipes for easy-to-make fragrances and edible, drinkable, and useful concoctions that reveal the imaginative possibilities of creating with—and reveling in—aroma. Vintage line drawings make for a volume that will be a treasured gift as well as a great read.

Perfume

Author : Jean-Claude Ellena
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628721707
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Perfume written by Jean-Claude Ellena and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To women the whole world over, perfume means glamour, and in the world of perfume, Jean-Claude Ellena is a superstar. In this one-of-a-kind book, the master himself takes you through the doors of his laboratory and explains the process of creating precious fragrances, revealing the key methods and recipes involved in this mysterious alchemy. Perfume is a cutthroat, secretive multibillion-dollar industry, and Ellena provides an insider’s tour, guiding us from initial inspiration through the mixing of essences and synthetic elements, to the deluxe packaging and marketing in elegant boutiques worldwide, and even the increasingly complicated safety standards that are set in motion for each bottle of perfume that is manufactured. He explains how the sense of smell works, using a palette of fragrant materials, and how he personally chooses and composes a perfume. He also reveals his unique way of creating a fragrance by playing with our olfactory memories in order to make the perfume seductive and desired by men and women the world over. Perfume illuminates the world of scent and manufactured desire by a perfumer who has had clients the likes of Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, and Hermés.

Essence and Alchemy

Author : Mandy Aftel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578330563
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Essence and Alchemy written by Mandy Aftel and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, there have been perfumers, or rather the priests, shamans, and apothecaries who were their predecessors. Yet, in many ways, perfumery is a lost art, its creative and sensual possibilities eclipsed by the synthetic ingredients of which contemporary perfumes are composed, which have none of the subtlety and complexity of essences derived from natural substances, nor their lush histories. Essence and Alchemyresurrects the social and metaphysical legacy that is entwined with the evolution of perfumery, from the dramas of the spice trade to the quests of the alchemists to whom today's perfumers owe a philosophical as well as a practical debt. Mandy Aftel tracks scent through the boudoir and the bath and into the sanctums of worship, offering insights on the relationship of scent to sex, solitude, and the soul. Along the way, she imparts instruction in the art of perfume compositions, complete with recipes, guiding the reader in a process of transformation of materials that continues to follow the alchemical dictum solve et coagula (dissolve and combine) and is itself aesthetically and spiritually transforming.

Al-Kimia

Author : John Eberly
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9781597310109
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Al-Kimia written by John Eberly and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al-Kimia-The Mystical Islamic Essence of the Sacred Art Of Alchemy by John Eberly presents a condensed history of Alchemy told through concise biographies of early Sufi Masters. Chapters examine occult areas of alchemical and spiritual interest such as jafr, an exegetical Qur'anic science akin to Hebrew Qabala; the Qiyamat or 'Great Resurrection', of the heretical Ismaili sect; the contrary path of the saintly Malamatiyya or 'blameworthy ones'; Hermetic color theory, and 'hidden' art history. A glossary of transliterated terms is appended that will greatly help the beginner as well as the advanced student of these subjects.

The Essence of Perfume

Author : Roja Dove
Publisher : Black Dog Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781908966469
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book The Essence of Perfume written by Roja Dove and published by Black Dog Pub Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world's leading perfume authority, Dove leads readers on an extravagant journey through the world of scent, from Ancient Egypt to the present. Beginning with a comprehensive discussion of the sense of smell and the materials of the master perfumer, Dove goes on to celebrate the great classics, the makers who brought them to life and the bottle makers who gave them shape.

The Essence

Author : Gestalten
Publisher : Gestalten
ISBN 13 : 9783899552553
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book The Essence written by Gestalten and published by Gestalten. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The empire of scent: explore the realm of perfumes, smells, and aromatic incense to reveal the enduring allure of fragrance. Scents are linked with our most cherished memories--life without the ability to smell is unimaginable. Dive deep into the essentials of olfaction; open up the psychology and science of smell, discover the key fragrance families, and come to understand the historical and cultural ramifications that make the multi-billion dollar perfume industry what it is today. The Essence reveals the power of scent and fragrance to captivate--introducing key global locations, from the lavender fields of Provence and the laboratories where perfumes are created, to incense factories in India. The Essence introduces the trailblazers shaping the future and the vital role that technology and scented products will play in the 21st century, making the book an inviting read for fragrance novices and connoisseurs alike, opening up a new and fragrant world.

Essence & Alchemy

Author : Mandy Aftel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN 13 : 9780747554097
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Essence & Alchemy written by Mandy Aftel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As long as there has been passion, there has been perfume. Wealthy Romans used to scent their doves to impress their friends; in Shakespeare's time, a woman in love would place a peeled apple into her armpit to saturate it with her scent and then present it to her lover. This book is a sensual journey through one of life's great pleasures.

The Art of Flavor

Author : Daniel Patterson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 069819716X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Flavor written by Daniel Patterson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen in Food52, Los Angeles Times, and Bloomberg Two masters of composition—a chef and a perfumer—present a revolutionary new approach to creating delicious food. Michelin two-star chef Daniel Patterson and celebrated natural perfumer Mandy Aftel are experts at orchestrating ingredients. Yet even in a world awash in cooking shows and food blogs, they noticed, home cooks get little guidance in the art of flavor. In this trailblazing guide, they share the secrets to making the most of your ingredients via an indispensable set of tools and principles: • The Four Rules for creating flavor • A Flavor Compass that points the way to transformative combinations • The flavor-heightening effects of cooking methods • “Locking,” “burying,” and other aspects of cooking alchemy • The Seven Dials that let you fine-tune a dish With more than eighty recipes that demonstrate each concept and put it into practice, The Art of Flavor is food for the imagination that will help cooks at any level to become flavor virtuosos.

Perfume: A Century of Scents

Author : Lizzie Ostrom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681772892
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Perfume: A Century of Scents written by Lizzie Ostrom and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signature scents and now-lost masterpieces; the visionaries who conceived them; the wild and wonderful campaigns that launched them; the women and men who wore them—every perfume has a tale to tell. Join Lizzie Ostrom on an olfactory adventure as she explores the trends and crazes that have shaped the way we’ve spritzed. One hundred perfumes and scents in all their fragrant glory reveal a fascinating social history of the past century. From the belle epoque through the swinging sixties, to the naughty nineties and beyond, Ostrom brings intelligence and wit to this most ravishing of subjects. There was the patriotic impact of English Lavender during World War I and perfumes that captured the Egyptomania of the 1920s. Estee Lauder created "Youth Dew" and with it, distilled the essence of 1950's suburbia. Patchouli oil—the "anti-perfume" of the 1960s—was sure to keep money out of the hands of corporations and "the man." And who could forget the fervor created by the grunge androgyny of CK One? Scent is truly the passport to memory, making Perfume both a lush treat and an insightful examination of the twentieth century through the most mysterious of the five sense.

Introduction to Perfumery

Author : Anthony Curtis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Perfumery written by Anthony Curtis and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foundations of Internal Alchemy

Author : Mu Wang
Publisher : Golden Elixir Press
ISBN 13 : 0984308253
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Internal Alchemy written by Mu Wang and published by Golden Elixir Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written for Chinese readers, this book provides a clear description of the Taoist practice of Internal Alchemy, or Neidan. The author outlines the four stages of the alchemical practice and clarifies several relevant terms and notions, including Essence, Breath, and Spirit; the Cinnabar Fields; the "Fire Times"; and the Embryo. The book is based on the system of the Wuzhen pian (Awakening to Reality), one of the main sources of Internal Alchemy, and contains about two hundred quotations from original Taoist texts. Table of Contents Foreword, vii INTRODUCTION, 1 The Basis: Essence and Spirit, 3 STAGES OF THE ALCHEMICAL PRACTICE IN AWAKENING TO REALITY, 11 The Four Stages, 13 "Laying the Foundations," 15 Main Points in the Practice of "Laying the Foundations," 20 The Functions of Essence, Breath, and Spirit, 36 Terms Related to the "Coagulation of the Three Treasures," 52 Conclusion of the Stage of "Laying the Foundations," 63 "Refining Essence to Transmute it into Breath," 65 "Refining Breath to Transmute it into Spirit," 99 "Refining Spirit to Return to Emptiness," 109 CONCLUSION, 119 The "Arts of the Way," 121 Tables, 123 Glossary of Chinese Characters, 133

The Alchemy of the Desert - Fourth Edition

Author : Cynthia Athina Kemp Scherer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996252720
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book The Alchemy of the Desert - Fourth Edition written by Cynthia Athina Kemp Scherer and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth reference for 166 desert flower essences. It includes an introduction to flower essences and the unique environment of the Arizona deserts. A cross reference guide for selecting flower essences is included. Originally published in 1997, the fourth edition is updated to include more than 37 years of research into desert flower essences.

Fragrance Your Home

Author : Lesley Bramwell
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178713623X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Fragrance Your Home written by Lesley Bramwell and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragrance is as vital a part of your home as colour and texture. It can add depth to an otherwise stark room, warmth to a cold space, create a mood for a particular occasion – it can welcome, comfort and entice as much as any other aspect of interior design. Moving from room to room, Fragrance Your Home offers a practical look at the various, all-natural ways you can create transformative and evocative scents inspired by nature. Using seasonal combinations of 7 core essential oils, you'll discover how to make your own candles, diffusers, dried herb combinations, incense and florals to restore, energise and uplift.

Scent and Subversion

Author : Barbara Herman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493002023
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Scent and Subversion written by Barbara Herman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing look at vintage perfume's powerful past, including reviews of more than 300 scents, with stunning period advertisements throughout.

The Emerald Tablet

Author : Dennis William Hauck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101157186
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Emerald Tablet written by Dennis William Hauck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emerald Tablet—an ancient document that contains the essence of the alchemical teachings—has had an important influence on many Western spiritual and religious traditions. Ostensibly concerned with turning base metals into gold, alchemy was in fact dedicated to transforming the lead of self into the gold of spirit. This brilliant history of alchemy traces its sources back to ancient Egypt, and presents alchemy as a useful, practical system of self-transformation. Each of the seven steps of alchemical transformation is explained, with hands-on techniques and exercises, treating alchemy as a living discipline for achieving a spiritual awakening.

Scent and Fragrances

Author : Günther Ohloff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783642784200
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Scent and Fragrances written by Günther Ohloff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G}nther Ohloff supplies the researcher and practitioner in the field with fascinating ideas and introduces the interested layman to the fascinating world of fragrance, scent, and perfumes. His book presents a complete and highly up-to-date survey of the molecular basis of odor and scents and of the specific structure-activity relationships between fragrances and their receptors. It also covers to a wide extent neurophysiological aspects of olfaction. The author also describes the methods employed in the chemical synthesis of fragrances and the chemical modification of flavour and fragrance materials of natural origin. The book is completed by a description of 25 fragrances of plant and animal origin. From the contents: The Chemical Senses - Structure-Odor Relations - Quantitative OdorPerception - Description and Classification of Odor Impression - Odorants from Natural Starting Materials - Odorants from Petrochemical Starting Materials - Violet Odorants and Rose Ketones - Essential Oils -Animalic Compounds as Odorants.