Breathe in the natural and cultural history of scent with this
richly illustrated book inspired by the Aftel Archive of Curious
Scents. Mandy Aftel is one of the world’s leading bespoke
perfumers, with a clientele ranging from the singer-songwriter
Leonard Cohen to Sir Jony Ive, the former chief design officer of
Apple. Eschewing the synthetic molecules that dominate commercial
perfumes, Aftel creates her complex and subtle fragrances using
only natural essences. For her, each of these essences is a gateway
to a lost world of scent, stretching back to the beginnings of
human civilisation and intertwined with the history of medicine,
cuisine, adornment, sexuality, and spirituality. In 2017, Aftel
opened a one-room museum — the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents
— in her backyard in Berkeley, California, to help a modern
audience rediscover the enchantment of this lost world. Her museum
has attracted thousands of enthusiastic visitors and has been
featured in the New York Times, Vogue, Goop, O: The Oprah Magazine,
and numerous other media outlets. Now Aftel has created this
beautiful book, illustrated with treasures from her museum’s
collection, so that readers at home can immerse themselves in the
world of scent. She guides us through the different families of
botanical fragrances (including flowers, woods, leaves and grasses,
and resins), depicting each plant with a hand-coloured antique
woodcut and revealing its olfactory notes and lore. Special
chapters are devoted to the most rare and precious fragrances —
such as ambergris, formed of a rare secretion of the sperm whale
— and to antique essential oil bottles, handwritten recipe books,
and other evocative artefacts. The Museum of Scent, which includes
a bookmark subtly scented with a natural essence, invites us on a
sensuous, imaginative journey.
General
| Imprint: |
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Mandy Aftel
|
| Dimensions: |
228 x 228mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
252 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7892-1471-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-7892-1471-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780789214713 |
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