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New & upcoming perfume books for 2017

Posted by Robin on 15 March 2017 9 Comments

New and upcoming perfume books for 2017: The Art of Flavor: Practices and Principles for Creating Delicious Food by Mandy Aftel and Daniel Patterson, Smothering the Savage and An Imperfect Mimic by Avery Gilbert, Eisenberg Originals: The Golden Years of Fashion, Jewelry, and Fragrance, 1920s-1950s by Sharon Schwartz and Laura Sutton, Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture by Catherine Maxwell, Le roman des Guerlain by Élisabeth de Feydeau.

The Art of Flavor: Practices and Principles for Creating Delicious Food

The Art of Flavor: Practices and Principles for Creating Delicious Food by Mandy Aftel and Daniel Patterson

A second book from chef Daniel Patterson and perfumer Mandy Aftel of Aftelier…

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Avery Gilbert event at University of Minnesota

Posted by Robin on 24 March 2009 24 Comments

Avery Gilbert, author of What The Nose Knows, will be holding a talk called “The Seduction of Scent” on Saturday, April 18 at 7 pm at the University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis.

Avery will speak on the critical role smell plays in our lives, how the sense of smell is able to tempt and repel us and how it makes us part of the chemical conversation between plants and pollinators, herbivores and predators…

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What the Nose Knows by Avery Gilbert ~ perfume books

Posted by Marcello on 16 August 2008 8 Comments

Avery Gilbert, What the Nose KnowsAvery Gilbert has a long track record in the field of smell psychology. His research papers have been published in renowned academic journals since the 1980s, and he has been a consultant to many large firms in the fragrance industry. What the Nose Knows is his first book, and deals with the psychology of odor perception. Piet Vroon and Rachel Herz have written very accessible books on this subject, but their work was primarily focused on the relation between olfaction, emotion and behavior. Gilbert's main mission is a different one: to challenge the assumption that the human nose is somehow inferior to that of other species. “Dogs have great noses,” he writes in the chapter on olfactory prodigies, “but it's time to stop the trash talk and give ourselves more credit” (p.63). His message is simple: there's nothing wrong with our nose, we're just not very good at using it.

Since the days of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), the notion that humans have a poor sense of smell has been more or less taken for granted. Scientists agreed that olfaction had lost its importance to humans from an evolutionary perspective, and that it was barely of use to modern man. In recent years, however, neurobiologists and sensory physiologists have gained better insights into the inner mechanisms of our nose…

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Christian Lacroix Rouge & Noir, Victoria's Secret Very Sexy Now ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 27 April 2007 11 Comments

Christian Lacroix Rouge & Noir fragrances for Avon

Christian Lacroix will launch a duo of mass market fragrances with Avon.

Christian Lacroix Rouge for women will debut in September. The “floral chypre” was developed by perfumers Laurent Le Guernec and Carlos Benaim…

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