The Scent Trail: A Journey of the Senses - Couverture rigide

Lyttelton, Celia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0593051149 ISBN 13 : 9780593051146

Editeur : Bantam Press, 2007

Synopsis

A unique travel memoir - and a vividly drawn portrait of today's exotic world of perfume.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Celia Lyttelton is an artist and journalist. She has written numerous articles for magazines such as Vogue, Tatler, Vanity Fair, World of Interiors, The Sunday Times and Harpers & Queen. Her career as a writer has enabled her to travel all over the world - and her experiences resulted in the idea behind The Scent Trail.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

When Celia Lyttelton visited a bespoke perfumers, it was to realize a long-held ambition: to have a scent created solely for her. Entering this heady, exotic world of oils, extracts and essences, she was transported from a leafy square in London to a place of long-forgotten memories and sensory experiences. And once drawn into this world, she felt compelled to trace the origins, history and culture of the many ingredients that made up her unique perfume...

And so began a magical journey of discovery that took Celia from Grasse, the cradle of perfumery, in search of spicy-scented mimosa, to the citrus groves of Morocco and the sweet-smelling neroli oil; from the rose-growing region of Isparta in Turkey, where five tons of petals are harvested to make just one litre of rose oil, to Italy and the iris which grows on the rugged Tuscan hills.

After journeying to Sri Lanka and India, the home of the heavenly scented jasmine and saffron crocus, Celia continued to the Yemen in search of frankincense and myrrh, and on to Socotra, once described as the 'Island of Bliss'. Here she traced ambergris, possibly the rarest and most mysterious agent in perfumery, which is found in the bellies of whales and is said to have powerful aphrodisiac qualities.

From the peasants and farmers growing their own crops, and the traders who sell to the perfume houses, to the 'noses' who create the scents and the marketing kings who rule this powerful, billion-dollar industry, Celia Lyttelton paints a colourful panorama of sights, sounds and aromas. It is a mystical, sensual landscape that vividly conjures up the extraordinary people and places she has encountered on her unique scent trail.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593051149
• ISBN 13: 9780593051146
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible