{"product_id":"the-museum-of-scent-exploring-the-curious-and-wondrous-world-of-fragrance-hardcover","title":"The Museum of Scent: Exploring the Curious and Wondrous World of Fragrance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMandy Aftel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eClarissa Pinkola Est駸 Rey駸\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e --From the foreword by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Est駸 Rey駸, author of \u003cem\u003eWomen Who Run with the Wolves\u003c\/em\u003e and the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eLa Curandera, Walking in Two Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMandy 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 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGoop\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and numerous other media outlets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Museum of Scent\u003c\/em\u003e, which includes a bookmark subtly scented with a natural essence, invites us on a sensuous, imaginative journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 9.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53335614783853,"sku":"9780789214713","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/HPH4DOQjNW9780789214713.webp?v=1778900706","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/the-museum-of-scent-exploring-the-curious-and-wondrous-world-of-fragrance-hardcover","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}