The Perfume Handbook

Release on 2012-12-06 | by N. Groom

Frangipani Frangipani was originally a powdered perfume created in Rome by an aristocratic Renaissance family called Frangipani. It was made of orris and an equal amount of mixed spices, together with civet and musk.

The Perfume Handbook
  • Author: N. Groom
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9789401122962
  • Category: Science
  • Page: 323
  • View: 718

The Perfume Handbook

In 1948 I was posted, as a Political Officer, to a remote part of south-west Arabia on the edge of the great desert called the Empty Quarter. In valleys made fertile by seasonal flood-waters lay the remains of an ancient civilization. I found inscriptions and the ruin sites of towns, palaces and temples. Almost buried under the sand dunes were the tumbled walls of a great city. From here, two thousand years before, huge camel caravans had trudged their way along 1600 miles of burning sand and rocks to Petra and Gaza, burdened with a most precious cargo - frankincense, myrrh and other perfume materials for the courts, temples and perfume shops of Rome. My book Frankincense and Myrrh delved into the details of this romantic trade and led to a broader interest in the perfumes of ancient times. Then, researching on behalf of a perfume house into the Arab contribution to perfumery, I came across the collection of perfume recipes assembled by the Arab philosopher-scientist Yaqub al-Kindi, which have never been translated into English (some, which I have translated myself, are now included in an appendix to this book). I realized that in that work I had found key evidence to demonstrate how the medieval Arab perfume makers had been the bridge in perfume history between ancient and modern times. Perfumery could now be seen as an art with a continuous history of development since the dawn of civilization.

More Books:

The Scent of the Gods
Language: en
Pages: 304

The Scent of the Gods

Authors: Fiona Cheong
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-01 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

The Scent of the Gods tells the enchanting, haunting story of a young girl's coming of age in Singapore during the tumultuous years of its formation as a nation. Eleven-year-old Su Yen bears witness to the secretive lives of "grown-ups" in her diasporic Chinese family and to the veiled threats
Art Scents
Language: en
Pages:

Art Scents

Authors: Larry E. Shiner
Categories: Aesthetics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

"An overview of the aesthetic and ethical issues raised by the contemporary olfactory arts, which range from gallery and museum sculptures and installations, through the enhancement of theatre, film and music with scents, to the ambient scenting of stores and avant-garde chefs' use of scents in cuisine. Special attention is
The Widower
Language: en
Pages:

The Widower

Authors: Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-21 - Publisher: Epigram Books

Shortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2016 (English Fiction) Former political detainee and professor Pak Karman loses his wife in a car accident. The intensity of his mourning causes him to become untethered from his sanity. As reality, memory and fantasy become more and more blurred, he must come to terms
The Dark Book Of Shadows - A Grimoire of Sorcery and Dark Witchcraft
Language: en
Pages:

The Dark Book Of Shadows - A Grimoire of Sorcery and Dark Witchcraft

Authors: S. M. Brennan
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Lulu.com

Books about The Dark Book Of Shadows - A Grimoire of Sorcery and Dark Witchcraft
Fatal Ascent
Language: en
Pages:

Fatal Ascent

Authors: Gordon McKinzie
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-13 - Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc

In a remote area of the South Pacific, an airplane suddenly spins out of the overcast and crashes, the reason known only to a small group of scientists at a nearby atoll who have been developing the world's first space elevator in absolute secrecy. The atoll soon gives up its