Smells Like History: Perfume, Incense, and Scent Through Time - Couverture souple

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9798279346721: Smells Like History: Perfume, Incense, and Scent Through Time
Couverture souple
ISBN 13 : 9798279346721
Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

Before writing came fragrance.

Long before humans recorded words on clay or parchment, they burned resins to speak with gods, anointed rulers with oils, and marked love, power, and death through scent. Smell was one of humanity’s first languages — invisible, intimate, and deeply symbolic.

Smells Like History takes readers on a richly atmospheric journey through time and across cultures. From Egyptian temples steeped in kyphi smoke to Arabian caravans trading frankincense, from perfumed Roman politics to the rose fields of Grasse and the laboratories that gave birth to modern fragrance, this book reveals how scent shaped belief, identity, commerce, and power.

Blending lyrical storytelling with global history, each chapter opens a window onto moments when the air itself mattered — when what people breathed shaped who they were. These are not technical catalogs or dusty timelines, but intimate human stories of traders and healers, chemists and worshippers, artisans and dreamers whose ideas traveled farther than they ever could.

Smells Like History invites you to reconsider the past through the most powerful and overlooked of the senses.

Because history does not only survive in monuments and manuscripts.
It lingers in the air.

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Éditeur
Independently published
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798279346721
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
210
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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