Ackerman, Diane
An Alchemy of Mind

Ackerman, Diane
Natural History of the Senses

Aftel, Mandy
Essence and Alchemy: A Book of Perfume

Aftel, Mandy
Scents & Sensibilities: Creating Solid Perfumes for Well-Being

Aftel, Mandy, Daniel Patterson
Aroma: The Magic of Essential Oils in Foods and Fragrance

Allured Publishing
Allured's Flavor and Fragrance Materials

Alaux, J., F. Bajot, S. de Chirée, P. Mauriès
Lanvin

Almagor, U.
Odors and Private Language: Observations on the Phenomenology of Scent

Amoore, John E.
Molecular basis of odor

Ansel, Jean-Luc
Arctander, Maria G.
Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin

Ash, Michael and Irene
Handbook of Flavors and Fragrances

Askinson, George William
Perfumes and their preparation

Askinson, George William
Perfumes and cosmetics

Atchley, E.A.
History of the Use of Incense in Divine Worship

Autrum, Hansjochem, John E. Amoore, Lloyd M. Beidler
Handbook of Sensory Physiology

Aveline, Françoise, François Baudot
Chanel Fashion; Chanel Jewelry; Chanel Perfume

Bailes, Edith G.
An Album of Fragrances

Bales, Suzanne Frutig
A Garden of Fragrance
Medieval gardeners believed that the perfume of flowers was God's breath on earth.   "If you cannot pass a flower without burying your face in it and you're frequently caught with pollen smeared on your nose, you belong to the exclusive club of gardeners for whom scent is deeply important. I'm convinced pollen on the nose is a beauty mark of sorts."  - Suzy Bales

Ball, Joanne Dubbs and Dorothy Hehl Torem
Fragrance Bottle Masterpieces

Ballerino Cohen, C.
Olfactory Constitution of the Postmodern Body: Nature Challenged, Nature Adorned

Barillé, Elisabeth
Guerlain

Barillé, Elisabeth
Lanvin

Barillé, Elizabeth, Cathérine Laroze
The Book of Perfume

Baudelaire, Charles
The Flowers of Evil

Baudot, François
Chanel

Baudot, François
Elsa Schiaparelli

Bauer, Kurt, Dorothea Garbe, Horst Surburg
Common Fragrance and Flavour Materials

Bedichek, Roy
The Sense of Smell

Bedoukian, Paul Z.
50 Years of Perfumery & Flavouring Materials

Belfond, Pierre
Dinand—The Shapes of Perfume -30 years of Design

Benaïm, Laurence
Debut: Yves Saint Laurent 1962

Bergé, Pierre
Yves Saint Laurent

Bird, Richard
The Scented Garden

Billot, Marcel, Wells, F.V.
Perfumery Technology: Art, Science, Industry

Blakley, Patricia 
An Introduction to Fragrance

Blakely, Patricia
Everyone’s Guide to Fragrance
Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology
 
Blair, Jayne L. 
Perfume

Bloch, Iwan
Odoratus Sexualis: A Scientific and Literary Story of Sexual Scents and Erotic Perfumes

Blum, Dilys
Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli

Booth, Nancy M.
Perfumes, Splashes & Colognes: Discovering and crafting your personal perfumes

Botting, Kate, Douglas Botting
Sex Appeal: The Art and Science of Sexual Attraction

Bronwen, Martin, Felizitas Ringham
Sense and Scent: An Exploration of Olfactory Meaning

Brosius, Christopher
Scent: Mysteries of Perfume and the Smell of Happiness

Luther Burbank
The Scented Calla: How Fragrance was Instilled in a Scentless Flower

Burr, Chandler
The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses

Calkin, Robert R., J. Stephan Jellinek
Perfumery: Practices and Principles

Calkin, Robert R., J. Stephan Jellinek
Perfumes: Techniques and Technology

Camporesi, Piero
The anatomy of the senses:
Natural symbols in medieval and early Italy

Carlisle, Janice
Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian

Cawthorne, Nigel
The New Look: The Dior Revolution

Cerruti, Carla
Flacons

Charles-Roux, Edmonde
Chanel

Charles-Roux, Edmonde
Chanel and her world: Friends, Fashion, and Fame

Charles-Roux, Edmonde
The World of Coco Chanel: Friends, Fashion, Fame

Charles-Roux, Edmonde
Chanel: Her Life, Her World,
and the Woman Behind the Legend She Herself Created

Classen, Constance
Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures

Classen, Constance, David Howes, Anthony Synnott
Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell

COCO CHANEL
Chanel Parfums
The story of Coco Chanel

Colard Gregorie, Caron as told by
The Secret Charm of a Perfumed House

Cooley, Arnold J.
Instructions and cautions respecting the selection and use of perfumes

Cooley, Arnold J.
The Toilet in Ancient and Modern Times With a Review of the Different Theories of Beauty

Cooley, Arnold J.
A Complete Practical Treatise on Perfumery

Cooper, Ambrose
The Complete Distiller

Corbin, Alain
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination

Curtis, Tony, David Williams
Introduction to Perfumery: Technology and Marketing

Davis, Theresa
Fragrance Sense

De Condillac, E.B.
Treatise on the Sensations

De Feydeau, Elisabeth
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer

De Grazia, Victoria, Ellen Furlough
Sex of Things: Essays on Gender and Consumption

De la Haye, Amy, Shelley Tobin
Chanel: The Couturiere at Work

Delay, Claude
Chanel solitaire

De Marly, Diana
Christian Dior

De Maupassant, Guy
The Works of Guy de Maupassant

De Rety, Esmeralda, Jean-Louis Perreau
Christian Dior: The Glory Years 1947-1957

Dior, Christian
Dior and I

Dior, Christian
Dior by Dior

Donato, Giuseppe, Seefried, Monique
The fragrant past: The Fragrant Past, Perfumes of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar

Doty, R.
The Role of Olfaction in Man: Sense or Nonsense?

Douek, Ellis
The Sense of Smell and its Abnormalities

Dussauce, Hippolyte
A practical guide for the perfumer

Edwards, Michael
Perfume legends: French feminine fragrances

Edwards, Michael
Fragrances of the World / Parfums du Monde 2007
Michael Edwards & Co.

Ellis, Aytoun
The Essence of Beauty

Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology
The Fragrant Past 1989 English
Perfumes of Ancient Rome – Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.

Engen, Trygg
Odor, Sensation and Memory

Engen, Trygg
The Perception of Odors

Etherington-Smith, Meredith
Patou

Evelegh, Tessa
Lavender: Growing and Using in the Home & Garden

Festing, Sally
The Story of Lavender
London Borough of Sutton Libraries and Arts Services

Finnemore, Horace
The Essential Oils

Flanagan , Jane
The Wonderful World of Collecting Perfume Bottles: Identification & value guide

Fletcher, Joann
Oils and Perfumes of Ancient Egypt

Foley, Bridget
Marc Jacobs

Forden, Sara G.
The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

Fortescue, Winifred 
Perfume from Provence

Foster, Kate
Scent Bottles

Frey, Carl
Natural Flavors and Fragrances

Frieda Carrol Communications
Perfumes & Fraqrances As a Business - A Report 

Freeman, John F., Roger L. Williams
Citizens and Clergy of Grasse

French, John
The Art of Distillation, or A Treatise of the choisest Spagyricall Preparations performed by way of Distillation

Frosch P. J.
Fragrances: Beneficial and Adverse Effects 

Gabelman, Alan
Bioprocess Production of Flavor, Fragrance, and Color Ingredients

Gaborit, Jean-Yves
Perfumes: The essences and their bottles

Gaines, Stephen, Sharon Churcher
The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein

Galante, Pierre
Mademoiselle Chanel

Gell, A.
Magic, Perfume, Dream, I.M. Lewis, Symbols and Sentiments

Genders, Roy
A History of Scent

Genders, Roy
Perfume through the Ages

Gerson, Rosalyn
The Estee Lauder Solid Perfume Compact Collection

Gidel, Henry
Coco Chanel

Gilbert, Avery N.
Compendium of Olfactory Research

Gildemeister, E., Fr. Hoffmann
The Volatile Oils

Ginsberg, Steve
Reeking Havoc: The Unauthorized Story of Giorgio

Giroud, Françoise
Christian Dior

Jo Glanville-Blackburn
A Passion for Perfume

Glaser, Gabrielle
The Nose: A Profile Of Sex, Beauty And Survival

Gloess, R & Co
Fragrance Guide: Feminine Notes, Masculine Notes: Fragrances on the International Market

Golan, Leana
Art of Fragrance Creation

Gosnell, R.
Through the Fragrant Years: A History of the House of Gosnell

Grasse, Marie-Christine
Le Jasmin : Fleur de Grasse

Green, Mindy
The Natural Perfume Book: Simple, Sensual, Personal Aromatherapy Recipes

Green, Annette, Linda Dyett
Secrets of Aromatic Jewelry

Groom, Nigel
Fankincense and Myrrh: A Study of the Arabian Incense Trade

Groom, Nigel
The Perfume Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide

Groom, Nigel
The Perfume Handbook

Groom, Nigel
The New Perfume Handbook - Second Edition

Gross, Michael
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

Guenter, Ernest
Essential Oils

Haedrich, Marcel
Coco Chanel: her life, her secrets

Harper, R., Bate Smith, E.C., Land, D.G.
Odour Description and Odour Classification

Haslewood, Louis (ed.)
Perfume Manufacture: A Bibliography

Haynes, Williams
The Chemical Age: The Miracle of Man-Made Materials


Healy, Orla
Coty: Perfumer and Visionary

Hemphill, Rosemary 
Fragrance and Flavour 

Highet, Juliet
Frankincense: Oman's Gift to the World

Holland, New 
La Dolce Vita: Perfume

Hoving,Thomas
The Fragrance Connoisseurs

Howard, George, W.E. Arnold-Taylor
Principles and Practice of Perfumery and Cosmetics

Howes, David
Olfaction and Transition

Howes, David
Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader

Howes, David, Lalonde, M.
The History of Sensibilities

Huysmans, Joris-Karl
Against Nature

Irvine, Susan A.
Fragrant Roses

Irvine, Susan A.
Perfume: The Creation and Allure of Classic Fragrances

Irvine, Susan A.
The Perfume Guide

Israel, Lee
Estée Lauder: Beyond the Magic. An Unauthorized Biography

Jellinek, J. Stephan
The Use of Fragrance in Consumer Products

Jellinek, J. Stephan
The practice of modern perfumery

Jellinek, Paul
Psychological Basis of Perfumery

Perfume Album
Jill Jessee
Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company

Jones-North, Jacqueline
Commercial Perfume Bottles

Jouve, Marie-André
Balenciaga

Kaiser, Roman
Meaningful Scents Around the World

Kaiser, Roman
The Scent Of Orchids: Olfactory and Chemical Investigations

Kaufman, William Irving
Perfume: Photographs and text

Kelly, Ian
Beau Brummel

Kemp, Percy
Musc

Kennett, Frances
History of Perfume

Keville, Kathi, Mindy Green
Aromatherapy: A Complete Guide to the Healing Art

Killian, Emily Hart
Perfume Bottles Remembered

Koda, Harold, Andrew Bolton, Rhonda Garelick
Chanel

Kohl, James Vaughn, Robert T. Francoeur
The Scent of Eros: Mysteries of Odor in Human Sexuality

Kosta, Louise A
Fragrance and health

Kotur, Alexandra
Carolina Herrera: Portrait of a Fashion Icon

Lacey, Stephen
Scent in Your Garden

Largey, Gale Peter, David Rodney Watson
"The Sociology of Odors", in: The American Journal of Sociology

Lauder, Estée
Estée: A Success Story

Launert, Edmund
Perfume and Pomanders: Scent and Scent Bottles Through the Ages

Lawless, Julia
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils: The Complete Guide to the Use of Oils in Aromatherapy and Herbalism

Leach, Ken
Perfume Presentation

Lefkowith, Christie Mayer
Masterpieces of the Perfume Industry  

Le Guérer, Annick
Scent: The Mysterious and Essential Powers of Smell

Le Strange, Richard
A History of Herbal Plants

Lewis, Alfred Allan, Constance Woodworth
Miss Elizabeth Arden

Leymarie, Jean
Chanel

Lillie, Charles
The British perfumer

Loewer, Peter
Taylor's Weekend Gardening to Fragrant Gardens

Loewer, Peter
The Evening Garden: Flowers and Fragrance from Dusk Till Dawn 

Lovejoy, Ann and Lynne Harrison
Fragrance in Bloom: The Scented Garden Throughout the Year 

Lucretius
On the Nature of Things

Lynne, Mary
Galaxy of Scents: The Ancient Art of Perfume Making

Madsen, Axel
Chanel: A Woman of Her Own

Manniche, Lise
Sacred Luxuries: Fragrance, Aromatherapy, and Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt

Marsh, Lisa
The House of Klein: Fashion, Controversy, and a Business Obsession

Marsh, Madeleine
Miller’s Perfume Bottles: A Collector’s Guide

Marsili, Ray
Flavor, Fragrance & Odor Analysis, Food Science and Technology

Martin, Hazel
A collection of figural perfume & scent bottles

Martin, Richard
Christian Dior

Martin, Richard
Versace

Martin-Hattemberg, Jean-Marie
Caron

Matthews , Leslie
The antiques of perfume

Mayer Lefkowith, Christine
Art of Perfume: Discovering and Collecting Perfume Bottles

Mayer Lefkowith, Christine
Masterpieces of the Perfume Industry

McDowell, Colin
Ralph Lauren: The Man, the Vision, the Style

McKnight, Gerald
Gucci

M. Dayagi-Mendels
Perfumes and Cosmetics of the Ancient World

Millen, James Knox
Your Nose Knows: A Study of the Sense of Smell

Miller, J.I.
The Spice Trade of the Roman Empire

Miller, Judith
Perfume Bottles

Moncrieff, R.W.
The Chemical Senses

Moncrieff, R.W.
The Chemistry of Perfumery Materials
 
Monsen, Randall Bruce
The Magic of Perfume: The Perfumes of Caron 

Randall Monsen
The Allure of Perfume: Perfume Bottle Auction XVI

Monsen, Randy
For the Love of Perfume: The Perfumes of Elizabeth Arden

Moran, Jan
Fabulous Fragrances: How to Select Your Perfume Wardrobe. The Women's Guide to Prestige Perfumes

Moran, Jan
Fabulous Fragrances II: A Guide to Prestige Perfumes for Women and Men

Morand, Paul
L'Allure de Chanel
illustrations by Karl Lagerfeld

Morgan,  Keith
Making Magickal Incenses & Ritual Perfumes

Morfit, Campbell
Perfumery: Its Manufacture and Use

Morris, Bernadine
Valentino

Morris, Edwin T.
The Story of Perfume from Cleopatra to Chanel

Morris, Edwin T.
Scents of Time: Perfume from Ancient Egypt to the 21st Century

Muller, P. M.  and D. Lamparsky
Perfumes - Art, science and technology by

Muir, F.
An Irreverent and Almost Complete Social History of the Bathroom

Naraschkewitz, F.
"Focus on Fragrance: Photography in Perfume Advertising"

Navarro, Joaquín
Larousse del perfume y las esencias

Naves, Y.R
Natural perfume materials;: A study of concretes, resinoids, floral oils and pomades

Newman, Cathy
Perfume: The Art and Science of Scent

Nielsen, K.
Incense in Ancient Israel

North, Jacquelyne 
Perfume, Cologne, And Scent Bottles 

Nutting,  Cherie
Yesterday's Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles

Oakes, John
The Book of Perfumes

Oakes, John
The New Book of Perfumes

Oakes, John
The Perfume Zodiac

Oakes, John
All About Perfume

Ohloff, Gunther
Scent and Fragrances: The Fascination of Odors and Their Chemical Perspectives

Ohloff, Gunther
Earthly Scents, Heavenly Pleasures: A Cultural History of Scents

Parker, Philip M.
The 2007-2012 Outlook for Perfumes in the United States

Parry, Ernest J.
Cyclopedia of Perfumery

Parry, Ernest J.
The Chemistry of Essential Oils and Artificial Perfumes

Parry, Ernest J.
The Raw Materials of Perfumery: Their Nature, Occurrence, and Employment

Pavia, Fabienne
The World Of Perfume

Pearce, T.C., S.S. Schiffman, H.T. Nagle, J.W. Gardner
Handbook of machine olfaction

Peiss, Kathy
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture

Piesse, George William Septimus
The art of perfumery, and method of obtaining the odors of plants

Plat, Hugh
Delightes for Ladies, to adorne their Persons, Tables, Closets, and Distillatories: with beauties, bouquets, perfumes & waters

Pochna, Marie-France
Christian Dior: The Man Who Made the World Look New
transl: Joanna Savill

Pochna, Marie-France
Dior

Poucher, William A.
The Production, Manufacture and Application of Perfumes

Poucher, William A.
Perfumes, cosmetics and soaps

Poucher, William A., A.J. Jouhar
Poucher's Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps:
The Raw Materials of Perfumery

Poucher, William A., Hilda Butler
Poucher's Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps

Pybus, David, Charles Sell
The Chemistry of Fragrances

Rain, Patricia
Vanilla: A Cultural History of the World's Favorite Flavor & Fragrance

Rawsthorn, Alice
Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography

Redgrove, H. Stanley
Scent and all about it: A Popular Account of the Science and Art of Perfumery

Richardson, Jo
Aromatherapy: Revitalizing Mind & Body With Natural Fragrances

Riggs, Maribeth
The Scented Woman: Create Your Own Signature Perfume from Essential Oils

Rimkus, Gerhard G.
Synthetic Musk Fragrances in the Environment
(Handbook of Environmental Chemistry) 

Rimmel, Eugène
The Book of Perfumes

Ringblum, Jeri Lyn
A Collector's Handbook of Miniature Perfume Bottles

Riordan, Teresa
Inventing Beauty: A History of the Innovations That Have Made Us Beautiful

Robbins, Tom
Jitterbug Perfume

Rose, Jeanne
375 Essential Oils and Hydrosols

Rosen, Diana
The Essence of Incense:Bringing Fragrance into the Home 

Rouby, Catherine, Benoist Schaal, Danièle Dubois, Rémi Gervais, André Holley
Olfaction, Taste and Cognition

Roudnitska, Edmond
Le parfum

Rowe, David J.
Chemistry and Technology of Flavours and Fragrances

Rovesti, Paolo 
In Search of Perfumes Lost
1980 English

Sagarin, Edward
The Science and Art of Perfumery

Sawer, J. Ch.
Odorographia: A Natural History Of Raw Materials And Drugs Used In The Perfume Industry Including The Aromatics Used In Flavouring

Schab, Frank R., Robert G. Crowder
Memory for Odors

Schleidt, M., C. Genzel
The Significance of Mother's Perfume for Infants in the First Weeks of Their Life

Scranton, Philip
Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America

Secondini, Orlindo
Handbook of Perfumes and Flavors

Sell, Charles
The Chemistry of Fragrances: From Perfumer to Consumer
(RSC Paperbacks)

Serby, Michael J., Karen L. Chobor
The Science of Olfaction

Sischy, Ingrid
The Journey Of A Woman: 20 Years Of Donna Karan

Sloan, Jean
Perfume and Scent Bottle Collecting

Surburg, Horst and Johannes Panten
Common Fragrance and Flavor Materials: Preparation, Properties and Uses  (May 30, 2006)

Süskind, Patrick
Perfume;The Story Of A Murderer

Stamelman, Richard
Perfume: Joy, Obsession, Scandal, Sin

Stoddard, David Michael
The scented ape: the biology and culture of human odour
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Swift, K.A.D.
Advances in Flavours and Fragrances: From the Sensation to the Synthesis by the Royal Society of Chemistry Special Publication

Takagi, S.
Human Olfaction: From Art to Science

Taylor, John Ellor
Flowers;: Their origin, shapes, perfumes, and colours

Ternes ,Thomas A.
Human Pharmaceuticals, Hormones And Fragrances: The Challenge of Micropollutants in Urban Water Management

Theophrastus
Enquiry into plants. Vol. I; Vol. II, Treatise on odours

Theimer, Ernst
Fragrance Chemistry: The Science of the Sense of Smell

Thompson, Charles John Samuel
Lure and Romance of Alchemy
Whitefish, MT:

Thompson, Charles John Samuel
Mystery and Art of the Apothecary
Whitefish, MT:

Thompson, Charles John Samuel
Mystery and Lure of Perfume
Whitefish, MT:

Thompson, Charles John Samuel
Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy
Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing

Thompson, Charles John Samuel
Mystic Mandrake
Whitefish, MT:
 
Tisserand , Maggie
Essence of Love: Fragrance, Aphrodisiacs, and Aromatherapy for Lovers 

Tisserand, Robert
The Art of Aromatherapy

Toller, S. Van, and G.H. Dodd
Fragrance, the Psychology and Biology of Perfume

Ralph Lauren: The Man Behind the Mystique

Trueman, John
The romantic story of scent

Tukes, J.W.
The Fragrance Mystique, Our Intimate Essences, A Primer: The Power of Our Sense of Smell and the Fragrance Experience

Turin, Luca
Parfums, le Guide
Paris: Editions Hermé

Turin, Luca
The Secret of Scent:
Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell

Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt
Perfumes and Spices, Including an Account of Soaps and Cosmetics

Villoresi, Lorenzo
L’Arte del Bagno

Villoresi, Lorenzo
Il Mondo del Profumo

Vreeland, Diana
Yves Saint Laurent

Scent Bottles
Alexandra Walker
Shire Publications Ltd.
Traces the history of the scent bottle from the containers of ancient Egypt to commercial bottles of the 20th century.

Wallach, Janet
Chanel: Her Style and Her Life

Watson, Lyall
Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell

Williams, David G.
Perfumes of Yesterday

Winter, Ruth
The Smell Book: Scents, Sex, and Society

Worwood, Valerie Ann
The complete book of essential oils and aromatherapy

Wright, Robert Hamilton
The Sense of Smell
Boca Raton, FL

Perfume
Margaret Woodney Wyman
Sterling Publishing Co. 1968 English


Fragrance:
The Story of Perfume from Cleopatra to Chanel

by Edwin Morris

Perfume Legends: French Feminine Fragrances

by Michael Edwards


The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession
by Chandler Burr

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer

by Elisabeth De Feydeau















Feydeau, a professor at the Versailles School of Perfumers, draws on the papers of perfumer Jean-Louis Fargeon to reveal the secrets of his luxurious creations for Marie Antoinette. A native of Montpellier, Fargeon moved to Paris, becoming an apprentice to one of the city's most fashionable perfumers. Fargeon won the queen's favor with a gift of exceptional scented kidskin riding gloves and rapidly gained her confidence; he treated her secret pregnancy-related hair loss and became her loyal friend.

Tracing Marie Antoinette's extravagant expenditures and far-fetched follies amid increasingly enraged public opinion, Feydeau charts the fall of the house of Versailles, Marie Antoinette's decline and Fargeon's own fate.  it spotlights the intimate life of the palace, excelling chiefly in explanations of fascinating 18th-century beauty secrets, from black adhesive taffeta beauty spots to swan's down powder puffs.



Essense & Alchemy
by Mandy Aftel






















From earliest times, people have taken what seems to be an instinctive pleasure in rubbing their skin with scented material derived from bark, leaves, flowers, and grasses. Ethereal, almost intangible, yet unequaled in its capacity to evoke our deepest emotions, perfume has helped us to pray, to heal, and to make love.

Mandy Aftel resurrects the rich legacy that is entwined with the evolution of perfumery, from the dramas of the spice trade to the quests of the alchemists. She unearths a forgotten world in which scent was celebrated by poets, contemplated by philosophers, and universally appreciated for its profound resonance with body, mind, and soul. And she seduces us out of our armchairs to experience firsthand the pleasures of composing with natural essences, guiding the reader in a process of transformation that continues to follow the alchemical dictum solve et coagula (dissolve and combine) and is itself aesthetically and spiritually transforming.

Essence and Alchemy has been published in German, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Italian, and Portuguese.

"Smelling her extraordinary collection of oils took me to beautiful places I have never been before. The fragrance that Mandy Aftel blended exclusively for me is full of citrus and herbal fragrances that complement my culinary life."  —Alice Waters

"Reading Mandy Aftel on perfume is like listening to Mozart on original instruments-it’s a revelation of tone and technique. She captures the sensuous pleasure of working with fragrance oils and the intellectual delight of composing in scent. Her book combines a perfumer’s sensibility with the authority of a historian and the passion of an enthusiast."  —Avery Gilbert, president of the Sense of Smell Institute


Perfume Science
by Thames & Kosmos













The Art and Science of Making Scents

Follow your nose on a fragrant jurney through the science, history and art of making perfumes. Experiment with countless fragrance combinations on your way to becoming a master perfumer. Learn how your nose and olfactory system work with your brain to sense and recognize smells.

Play games with your sense of smell and taste. Read about the long history of perfumes and take a peek into the perfume industry today. Discover where natural and synthetic fragrances come from. Use vegetable shortening to extract the fragrant oils from rose petals. Find out what makes a perfume different from a cologne.

Design your own perfumes and learn how perfumes are meticulously composed. Train your nose to recognize the components of complex scents. Make a scented potpourri and a sweet-smelling sachet with your homemade perfumes. Design the perfume that suits you perfectly, and surprise your friends with perfumes made specially for them.

Perfume Science introduces young perfumers to the biology, chemistry and techniques behind fragrance design. This kit is a complete perfumer’s laboratory including 8 high-quality perfume oils, decorative flacons (small bottles) for storing your perfume creations and important tools of the trade.

The 48-page full-color manual is full of information about the biology of smelling, the chemistry of perfumes, the fine fragrance industry and the history of perfumes.



Rose Recipes from Olden Times
by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

NEW BOOK

Scent: Mysteries of Perfume and the Smell of Happiness

by Christopher Brosius













Our sense of smell is intimately connected to our experience of the world around us. Without us knowing, it governs what we choose to eat, who we love, why we hate, and how we remember; yet, we pay very little attention to the profound effect that scents have on our everyday lives. In Scent, an exploration of the complex intersection between science, scent, and psychology, noted perfumer Christopher Brosius unravels the mystery surrounding our most neglected sense.

“Illustrated” with eighteen microencapsulated scent cards created by Brosius, this book provides the reader with an immediate experience of the phenomena he discusses. Lively, engaging, and easily accessible (even to the science impaired), Scent will change the way we experience the world around us.

Christopher Brosius is the first perfume designer to have been included in the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum’s Triennial exhibition and is the recipient of four Fragrance Foundation awards. He began his career at Kiehl’s and went on to found Demeter Fragrance Library. He currently owns and runs CB I Hate Perfume Gallery.


Perfume: The Art and Science of Scent

Cathy Newman











Promise her anything...but give her Perfume. This bewitching, lavishly illustrated book explores every aspect of the fascinating yet little-known art and science of scent, which for thousands of years has worked its powerfully seductive magic on men and women all over the world.

You'll witness every stage of the development of a perfume, from the rose fields of rural Morocco to the finest department stores of Paris and New York. You'll attend a school for perfumers in Provence where hopeful apprentices hone their skills, meet the legendary alchemists who create complex, closely guarded formulas, which can be worth millions, and listen in as executives devise strategies for tapping the 15-billion-dollar-a-year perfume market -- an intensely competitive arena where failure can literally destroy a company.

Throughout, you'll glory in stunning color photographs that capture all the elegance and romance of an art where image is truly everything -- the sensuous shape of a crystal flask filled with amber enchantment, the alluring promise of a whiff of scent on a gentle evening breeze, the extraordinary power of perfume to evoke the memory of a treasured moment. Glamorous, mysterious, enthralling, this is a book as sophisticated and irresistible as the classic art it celebrates.



A Natural History of the Senses
Diane Ackerman















Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth.

"Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in."--The New York Times.

"A wonderful idea for a narrative journey, one that touches upon biology and anthropology, art and human consciousness...a heady, sometimes utterly engaging dive inot the world around us--from the hormonal effects of the smell of musk to the biological necessity of touch... Ackerman's poetic vision allows her to find mystery and meaning in the most personal and idiosyncratic places." --Boston Globe

"An intriguing, knowledgeable and compelling book on the science, mood, character and geography of the human senses.  But...it is [Ackerman's] inquiry into the temper and disposition of the senses that endures and settles irristibly just beneath the reader's skin.  In exploring the extreme diversity of the human senses and their incredible variegation from culture to culture, Ms. Ackerman manages to reveal just how exceptional, rather than common, human senses are."  --Atlanta Constitution and Journal


Frankincense: Oman's Gift to the World
By Juliet Highet
















The land of frankincense—three ancient Omani cities connected with the frankincense trade—were recently named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The history and value of the resin, once as important to the ancient Arabian world as oil is now, is not widely appreciated today. This stunning book that combines travel writing, history, and a glimpse into the world of perfumery explores every aspect of these fragrant, ivorycolored "pearls," from frankincense's harvesting beneath the barks of desert trees, through the vital role it played in the culture of the old Middle East, to its use today in aromatherapy and perfume. Hundreds of color photographs illustrate the cultivation and preparation of frankincense today along the historic incense routes, while artworks and maps reveal how this luxury item was for thousands of years so crucial to the economy and life of Arabia.


Essence and Alchemy:
A Book of Perfume 
Mandy Aftel












To this most extraordinary treatise on the history and making of perfume, Aftel, a writer and aroma designer, brings sheer delight in the bouquet of aromas in the natural world, as well as a "love for arcana" and an irreverent sensibility that embraces "little-acknowledged" aphrodisiacs like the smell of sweat. Smell is one of the most primal senses: even newborns orient first toward the smell of their mothers' milk.

And world history is full of the manipulation of smell, she reveals, starting with the palace perfumers of ancient Egypt; the Israelite women who concocted essences for temple sacrifices; the Romans, who anointed nearly everything; the alchemists, who searched for the Divine Essence; all the way up to modern pheromone researchers who hope, finally, "to snare the sex drive."

Aftel traces this history with witty anecdotes  and well-chosen alchemical and botanical illustrations. After this seductive introduction, she shifts into the how-to mode, discussing the actual making of a scent, a process of selecting certain "base notes," adding "heart notes" and finally the "top chords."

Her emphasis is on experimenting, and developing an "olfactory consciousness." Since organically based perfumes interact with the wearer, they must be designed for a particular user, not vice versa, as with commercial, synthetically based products. Aftel provides some sample formulas and concludes with a roundup of romantic, bathing and spiritual uses of perfumes

An Alchemy of Mind
Diane Ackerman



















The most ambitious and enlightening work to date from the bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses, An Alchemy of Mind combines an artist's eye with a scientist's erudition to illuminate, as never before, the magic and mysteries of the human mind.

Long treasured by literary readers for her uncommon ability to bridge the gap between art and science, celebrated scholar-artist Diane Ackerman returns with the book she was born to write. Her dazzling new work, An Alchemy of Mind, offers an unprecedented exploration and celebration of the mental fantasia in which we spend our days -- and does for the human mind what the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses did for the physical senses.

Bringing a valuable female perspective to the topic, Diane Ackerman discusses the science of the brain as only she can: with gorgeous, immediate language and imagery that paint an unusually lucid and vibrant picture for the reader. And in addition to explaining memory, thought, emotion, dreams, and language acquisition, she reports on the latest discoveries in neuroscience and addresses controversial subjects like the effects of trauma and male versus female brains.

In prose that is not simply accessible but also beautiful and electric, Ackerman distills the hard, objective truths of science in order to yield vivid, heavily anecdotal explanations about a range of existential questions regarding consciousness, human thought, memory, and the nature of identity.


Fragrances of the World 2007:
Parfums du Monde
by Michael Edwards












Fragrances of the World 2007 is a visual treat. Michael Edwards brings rare order to the art of perfumery, entertaining and delighting with his easy-to-use guide. A fragrance retailer is not really in business until they have this book. In short, true connoisseurs will rejoice. -

"Developed for retailers, this encyclopedic reference is of equal value to perfumers, fragrance evaluators and industry professionals. It has become a fascinating guide for anyone with an interest in fragrances."
--Guy Robert, Former President of the French Society of Perfumers

NEW BOOK RELEASE:

Perfume: Joy, Obsession, Scandal, Sin








In Richard Stamelman's new book, Perfume: Joy, Obsession, Scandal, Sin, the editor explains the language and the historical significance of perfume.

"Lavishly illustrated, this definitive publication on perfume captures the glamour, romance, history, and the alluringly powerful cultural impact of fragrance. Through fascinating text accompanied by gorgeous imagery, the book explores perfume's impact on history, culture, society, art, and attitudes".

(press release for book)

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Publishers Weekly Book Review    *Starred Review*

November 5, 2007

THE PERFECT SCENT
By Chandler Burr

New York Times perfume critic Burr (The Emperor of Scent) follows the creation of two new scents—Un Jardin sur le Nil by French luxury house Hermès, and Lovely, a celebrity fragrance by Sarah Jessica Parker—in a kind of travelogue through the international perfume industry, "one of the most insular, glamorous, strange, paranoid, idiosyncratic, irrational, and lucrative of worlds." The former perfume was conceived by Hermès, informed by a trip to Egypt, then crafted by Jean-Claude Ellena, who represents a breed of "ghosts" known in the biz as perfumers. For the latter, Parker worked as artistic director of a corporate scent-making team.

Burr illuminates perfumery’s clash of cultures and values—French artistic purity versus American commercialism. Worldwide, this highly secretive industry’s PR machine propagates several anachronistic myths. For example, it insists that perfume ingredients are naturally derived (the overwhelming majority are not, because of concerns about quality control, ecological impact and allergies, among others) and that the big names on the bottles are personally involved in creating scents (perfumers alone typically do this; Parker was a rare exception). Burr makes a strong case that this mythmaking works to the industry’s detriment, and that inviting the public behind the scenes might help to reverse the industry’s declining sales. Burr’s is a thorough and often hilarious account of perfumery’s colorful characters, the science and art of fragrance creation and the human experience of scent itself.


Eva Pasco, Underlying Notes
Carla Matteo copes with life by 'taking to the bottle'--glass goddesses funneling perfume! During a mid-life renaissance the juice offers incentive for Carla to find her own niche, while the ominous rose note in Paloma Picasso forces her to confront a troubled past.  Fragrance addiction numbs the pain of her father's tragic death, wards off the sting of a severed adolescent friendship and wafts through fantasies of having a fling with hubby's paesano.  Her account is as multilayered as the fragrances she wears to permeate back stories that illuminate the present and surrender underlying secrets one morsel at a time.

Book Review by Dr. James Dotson

THE SECRET OF SCENT: 
ADVENTURES IN PERFUME AND
THE SCIENCE OF SMELL
by Luca Turin 

I hope that you remember Luca Turin’s now sadly retired 2005 blog, “Perfume Notes” where he strolls elegantly through his synaesthetic perfume reviews, giving suggestions for what scent to wear when you’re depressed, and sharing his obsessive love searches for lost perfumes on ebay. The Secret of Scent  starts off in that same flavor.  There is “A visit to the perfume museum”  in which Mr. Turin takes us along to the Osmotheque in Versailles to sample Houbigant’s iconic 1881 coumarin-fuelled Fougere Royale.  But then he makes an abrupt turn into the lands of science.  Be forewarned: chemical structures appear on the page, though he manages to infuse it all with his romantic sensibilities. The zigzags of aldehydes become a walk from the stubby morgue smack of formaldehyde to the spectacular long-chained duodecyclic aldehyde that provides a “blue-white radiance” to Chanel No. 5. 

This is a must-read for the true scent nerd, and for the intellectually curious.

                                                                       -James Dotson
  
Kirkus Book Review
November 1, 2007

THE PERFECT SCENT:
A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York Pub date: January 22, 2008 By Chandler Burr

The New York Times perfume critic-yes, you read that right-follows the creation of two industry-defining perfumes.  While Burr (The Emperor of Scent, 2003, etc.) approaches his beat with healthy skepticism, he's also capable of flowery language, describing a perfume as smelling "like early evening on an island where it is always summer." It's this mixture of hard-nosed business writing and flights of olfactory fancy that makes the text improbably exhilarating. Split between the twin capitals of fashion, and therefore of the perfume industry, Burr's account tracks the development of two new scents, each a high-stakes crapshoot. The New York fragrance was celebrity-driven. To create Sarah Jessica Parker Lovely, the actress spent an impressive amount of time with beauty-product manufacturer Coty's corporate perfumers trying to create a scent that would not only capture her essence (don't laugh: they actually seem to have done it) but would survive in an increasingly volatile $31-billion market.

Un Jardin sur le Nil, the more traditionally designed Parisian fragrance, was revolutionary in its own way. Seeking a higher profile in the lucrative perfume market, Hermès hired Jean-Claude Ellena, one of the professional "ghosts" who actually make the scents sold under designers' names, to be its first-ever in-house perfumer. The astoundingly complex struggle to define and refine Nil, first reported by Burr in a 2005 New Yorker article, centered on an ephemeral conceit of green mangoes on the Nile. Lovely comes across here as a far more personal scent, though that might be a subjective judgment-the author seems a little star-struck by SJP.

Nonetheless, Burr sharply evokes the intoxicating, often infuriating mix of precise science and artistic vision necessary to create a perfume, aided by his impressively calibrated BS detector and ability to unearth the industry's many dirty little secrets. An unusually grounded depiction of a business built largely on artifice.

Authorized reviews used with permission from Chandler Burr.   www.chandlerburr.com

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