In Search of Perfumes: A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents

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Synopsis
'[An] immersive debut... with detailed accounts of his trips and vivid descriptions of the scents ... [Roques'] rich travelogue will transport readers' Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)In Search of Perfumes is a fragrant journey across the world, revealing the beauty and mysteries of the perfume trade.Fruits, flowers, spices, bark, leaves, and branches are just some of the natural ingredients from the plant world that are used in the creation of perfume. Dominique Roques, travelling from Andalusia to Somaliland by way of Bulgaria, Laos, El Salvador, Indonesia and Egypt, describes his search to find the best natural ingredients, precious to perfumers everywhere.In Search of Perfumes demonstrates how the prestigious multi-million-pound perfume industry may begin its life as a single plant harvested by producers surviving on ancestral traditions and techniques and often risking their lives in the process as they combat the rising threat of climate change. Roques reveals the beauty and mysteries of a familiar trade; a return to the source of the world's scents.
Copyright:
2022

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
272 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781914495175
Related ISBNs:
9781914495168
Publisher:
Headline
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Copyrighted By:
Agence littéraire Melsene Timsit
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body, Business and Finance, Medicine
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
Stephanie Smee

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