Jean-Louis Michau and Patricia de Nicolaï of French niche line Parfums de Nicolaï have published Nicolaï: Parfumeur créateur, un métier d’artiste. The book is written in French and English…
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent by Mandy Aftel ~ book review
In fiction, an effective writer uses plot not just to move the story along, but to illuminate an underlying theme. If Mandy Aftel’s Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent were a novel, the plot would be the five essences — cinnamon, mint, frankincense, ambergris, and jasmine — around which she structures the book. The theme would be beauty.
In Fragrant’s first chapter, Aftel writes about how she became involved with perfume, then says:
As I researched and thought about the deeps ways that perfume touches our most primal selves and the collective self of our species, I realized that I had the makings of an adventure story of sorts…
The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume ~ new perfume book
The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume will be published next month by Literary House Press…
(Even) more new & upcoming perfume books for 2014
More new and upcoming perfume books for 2014: Dior: The Perfumes by Chandler Burr; The Perfume Bible by Josephine Fairley and Lorna McKay; Season of the Dragonflies by Sarah Creech; and Parfums: Scents and Sensibilities by Philippe Claudel. Also, the second edition of Roja Dove’s The Essence of Perfume is due out in October.
Dior: The Perfumes
Written by Chandler Burr…
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent by Mandy Aftel ~ new perfume book
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent, by Mandy Aftel of indie perfume house Aftelier, will be published in October of this year. Aftel’s prior books on perfumery include Essence & Alchemy, Scents & Sensibility and Aroma…