In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature's Scents (MP3 CD)
 
作者: Dominique Roques 
書城編號: 26377354

原價: HK$420.00
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出版社: Harpercollins
出版日期: 2023/05/02
ISBN: 9798212708937

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In this intoxicating concoction of history, travelogue, and memoir, one of the perfume industry's leading scouts of natural ingredients tells the story of the precious ingredients needed to make our favorite fragrances.

Do you know how many flowers it takes to produce a kilo of rose oil? One million roses, each handpicked. When it comes to nature, Dominique Roques is a unique authority. He has spent the last thirty years working closely with local communities across the globe to establish a sustainable supply of natural ingredients crucial to perfume making.

From resin cultivated by traditional methods in El Salvador to rose oil distilleries in India as old as the Taj Mahal, his network reveals an elusive trade built on the fault lines of tradition and modernity. With In Search of Perfumes, Roques tells the story of seventeen of the industry's most precious ingredients-where they come from, their cultural and historic significance, and why we love them--from Indonesian patchouli to the "Damask rose," interweaving his own recollections and reflections on his life and work.

From Andalusia to Somaliland, Roques takes us on an exclusive tour of a vast but delicate ecosystem wholly sustained by the artisans who are its caretakers. Isolated and rural, the tropical jungles of northern Laos remain to this day the only source of benzoin that centuries earlier wafted through the air of Louis XIV's court. In Madagascar, where every transaction is made in cash, a caravan of porters carry pallets bearing $500,000 dollars to exchange for vanilla beans. The Venezuelan tonka bean, as fickle as the weather, may refuse to flower for years but is so esteemed by perfumers that patience becomes its truest virtue. Everywhere Roques takes us, his infectious curiosity and amiability illuminate an immersive world of the uncharted.

Entertaining and eye-opening, decorated with beautiful black-and-white illustrations, In Search of Perfumes is an irresistible exploration of the smells that fuel our nostalgia and suffuse our fantasies.

Translated from the French by Stephanie Smee

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Dominique Roques 作者作品表

In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature's Scents (Paperback)

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

In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature's Scents (Hardcover)

In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature's Scents (MP3 CD)

In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature's Scents (Compact Disc)

eBook: In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature's Scents (DRM EPUB)

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

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