Aftel Mandy - The Museum Of Scent Exploring The Curious And Wondrous World Of Fragrance - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: " 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." 7 x 7 " Aftel explores the natural and cultural history of scent in her newest book The Museum of Scent." Veranda" A beautiful book about beautiful things with a fascinating narrative told by an author who loves her subject." Kirkus Reviews" It is so rich in story information and images you don't just read it you fall into it and don t want it to end!" Ivy Ross co - author of New York Times bestseller Your Brain on Art and VP of Hardware Design at Google". just leafing through Aftel's stunning compilation of olfactory magic is like being gifted a book of secrets." Smithsonian Breathe in the natural and cultural history of scent with this richly illustrated book inspired by the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents. This work is a true original a rarest of rare legacy volume. This book was created by a beautiful elder who is a polymath: meaning a highly unique person of multiple modern and old ways of knowing . Mandy Aftel's dons and talents are now resting in your hands in this magical tome that I deeply sense and hope will bless you time and again. From the foreword by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Est's Rey's author of Women Who Run with the Wolves and the forthcoming La Curandera Walking in Two Worlds Mandy Aftel is one of the world's preeminent natural perfumers with a clientele ranging from the singer - songwriter Leonard Cohen to Ivy Ross head of hardware design at Google. 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 civilization 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 - colored 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 artifacts. The Museum of Scent which includes a bookmark subtly scented with a natural essence invites us on a sensuous imaginative journey.
Title: The Museum Of Scent Exploring The Curious And Wondrous World Of Fragrance
Author(s): Aftel Mandy
Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc. U. S.
Barcode: 9780789214713
Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Date: 10/31/2023
Category: Cosmetics, Hair & Beauty