In Search of Perfumes : A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents (Hardback)Dominique Roques

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  • 272, 40 b&w illus Pages / Published 13 Oct 2022
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‘[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.

Additional information

Weight 678 g
Dimensions 222 × 28 mm
ISBN-13

9781914495168

Publisher

Headline Publishing Group

Imprint

Mountain Leopard Press

Date of Publication

13 Oct 2022

By (author)

Dominique Roques

Pages

272, 40 b&w illus

Format

Hardback

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