Download or read book Colour Scents written by Suzy Chiazzari and published by C.W. Daniel Company, Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the healing qualities of essential oils and how they interact with the spiritual side of our nature.
Download or read book The Colour of Angels written by Constance Classen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages through to nineteenth-century art movements, this book reveals a previously unexplored area of womens history.
Download or read book Scent and Scent sibilities written by Kelvin E. Y. Low and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smells are distinct and ubiquitous. They envelope us, enter our bodies, and emanate from us. Yet, they remain relegated to the background of everyday life experiences. This book attempts to highlight the social salience of smell in social actors’ day-to-day encounters where issues involving morality and social othering, presentation of self, and personhood intertwine with analyses of smell as a social conduit. These encounters include the experiences of anosmic individuals, which capture non-olfactive social worlds that are rarely addressed hitherto. Further deliberations on olfaction in relation to social memberships of race, class, and gender, elucidate upon social boundaries of inclusion and exclusion constructed vis-à-vis smell as a social marker. Olfactive adjudications of race and class are then expanded upon through the author’s discussion of various smellscapes in the context of Singapore. Olfaction, sanitary discipline, and olfactive simulacra are also expounded upon, thereby underscoring the control and manipulation of scents in the contexts of modernity and postmodernity. Smells therefore offer insights into the workings of social relations and power structures in society. By predicating analyses on empirical data procured from Singapore, along with case studies from the region and beyond, this study draws much needed attention on smell which has been a neglected sense in the wider literature. In addition, the concurrent employment of the other senses will also be explicated, which therefore demonstrates the social character of smell and other sensory modalities through historical and contemporary milieux. This book is a pioneering effort in offering sociocultural interpretations of scents based on primary and secondary data analysed using the trajectory of sociology of everyday life.
Download or read book Fleeting Scents in Colour written by Ariane van Suchtelen and published by Uitgeverij Waanders & de Kunst. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - An investigation into the portrayal of smell in 17th-century art Scented flowers and perfumes, foul-smelling canals and unpleasant body odors, smell and well-being, new aromas from far-away lands (spices, tobacco, coffee and tea), the disappearing smells of the bleaching fields, old crafts and more. Can life in the 17th century be captured in smell? How are smell (and scent) portrayed? What significance did people attach to smell? And what aromatic connotations do artworks have? In this book the authors undertake smell-historical research. In the vicinity of the art, various historic scents will be prepared to bring the paintings in the exhibition to life.
Download or read book Scents and Sensibility written by Catherine Maxwell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses. Concentrating on aesthetic and decadent authors, Scents and Sensibility introduces a rich selection of poems, essays, and fiction, exploring these texts with reference to both the little-known cultural history of perfume use and the appreciation of natural fragrance in Victorian Britain. It shows how scent and perfume are used to convey not merely moods and atmospheres but the nuances of the aesthete or decadent's carefully cultivated identity, personality, or sensibility. A key theme is the emergence of the olfactif, the cultivated individual with a refined sense of smell, influentially represented by the poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne, who is emulated by a host of canonical and less well-known aesthetic and decadent successors such as Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, John Addington Symonds, Lafcadio Hearn, Michael Field, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Mark André Raffalovich, Theodore Wratislaw, and A. Mary F. Robinson. This book explores how scent and perfume pervade the work of these authors in many different ways, signifying such diverse things as style, atmosphere, influence, sexuality, sensibility, spirituality, refinement, individuality, the expression of love and poetic creativity, and the aura of personality, dandyism, modernity, and memory. A coda explores the contrasting twentieth-century responses of Virginia Woolf and Compton Mackenzie to the scent of Victorian literature.
Download or read book The Smell of a Rainbow written by Dawn Goldworm and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scented and shaped board book with seven exclusive scents by one of the world's most sought-after fragrance designers Did you know that almost everyone associates the same colors and feelings with certain smells? Dawn Goldworm has spent her career studying just that. She is one of the world's best designers of fragrance, and now she is bringing her expert nose to this scented board book. Just rub your finger along each page, and enjoy the smell of color! Dawn has created seven exclusive fragrances to evoke the stripes of the rainbow--a new, fun, and surprising way to learn about the colors.
Download or read book Past Scents written by Jonathan Reinarz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds. This broad survey demonstrates how each community or commodity possesses, or has been thought to possess, its own peculiar scent. Through the meanings associated with smells, osmologies develop--what cultural anthropologists have termed the systems that utilize smells to classify people and objects in ways that define their relations to each other and their relative values within a particular culture. European Christians, for instance, relied on their noses to differentiate Christians from heathens, whites from people of color, women from men, virgins from harlots, artisans from aristocracy, and pollution from perfume. This reliance on smell was not limited to the global North. Around the world, Reinarz shows, people used scents to signify individual and group identity in a morally constructed universe where the good smelled pleasant and their opposites reeked. With chapters including "Heavenly Scents," "Fragrant Lucre," and "Odorous Others," Reinarz's timely survey is a useful and entertaining look at the history of one of our most important but least-understood senses.
Download or read book Colour Scents written by Suzy Chiazzari and published by Rider. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flowers emit a force-field of light and aromatic vibrations to which birds and insects respond. Plants have messages for us too, and when we understand the meaning of these energetic patterns their therapeutic action and healing qualities are revealed Colour Scents investigates the close relationship of colour and scent and how these powerful, but subtle, natural forces can be used to heal and balance our entire being, as well as their role in maintaining a healthy planet. This book uses the colour signatures of plants to reveal their secrets, enabling us to search deeper into the healing qualities of essential oils and to extend our understanding of how they interact with the more spiritual side of our nature. Suzy Chiazzari is a colour therapist and healer who founded the Iris International School of Colour Therapy in Devon, England. For many years she has investigated the links between colour and other forms of Vibrational healing, including aroma, sound, flower essences, reflexology and acupuncture in an holistic approach to healing. Her work has been featured in many magazines and on radio and she travels extensively giving lectures and workshops. “This beautifully written book by an author who reflects a deep understanding of the vibrational qualities of colour and essential oils, crosses the divide and stimulates our senses to achieve true complementary healing. Through clearly written guidelines and good practical advice, the reader becomes surrounded by energies which stimulate inner growth and a sense of well being”.Dr Christine Page – author of Frontiers of Health & Mirror of Existence
Download or read book The Colour Sense Its Origin and Development written by Grant Allen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Colour-Sense: Its Origin and Development" by Grant Allen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Essential Oils and Perfumery written by Gabriel Haskell and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and the Garden written by David S. Ingram and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thorough update and the introduction of new topics such as biodiversity and conservation has greatly enhanced this new edition: it is a 'must read' for all interested in horticulture and gardening." —John MacLeod, RHS Professor of Horticulture Most conventional gardening books concentrate on how and when to carry out horticultural tasks such as pruning, seed sowing and taking cuttings. This book is unique in explaining in straightforward terms some of the science that underlies these practices. It is principally a book of 'Why' – Why are plants green? Why should one cut beneath a leaf node when taking cuttings? Why do plants need so much water? But it also goes on to deal with the 'How', providing rationale behind the practical advice. The coverage is wide-ranging and comprehensive and includes the basic structure and functioning of garden plants, nomenclature, genetics and plant breeding, soil management, environmental factors affecting growth, methods of propagation and production, pest and disease control, post harvest management and storage, and conservation and sustainable horticulture. Now with full colour throughout, the second edition provides the reader with: Completely revised and updated chapters from the first edition, with new information and clearer focus on the topics Four new chapters, dealing with matters that have become of increasing concern since the first edition, namely: Diversity in the Plant World; Conservation and Sustainable Gardening; Gardens and the Natural World; and Gardens for Science Published on behalf of the Royal Horticultural Society, this book remains a key text for those sitting RHS examinations, particularly at levels 2 and 3; it will also appeal to gardeners, growers and scientists. Key Features Bestselling essential text for all horticulture students Edited and written by a group of highly regarded scientists Covers the scientific information of greatest importance to gardeners and horticulturists Jargon-free scientific explanations, a comprehensive glossary, and copious colour illustrations Royalties from the sale of this book go towards the charitable work of the RHS, promoting horticulture and helping gardeners. www.rhs.org.uk
Download or read book Common and Uncommon Scents written by Susan Stewart and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensory journey though time, interpreting social (and political) history through the scents used by people from the Ancient Egyptians to Coco Chanel.
Download or read book The Chemist and Druggist written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aroma written by Constance Classen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. This book breaks the "olfactory silence" of modernity. It offers the first comprehensive exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history - from antiquity to the present. It also covers a wide variey of non-Western societies. Its topics range from the medieval concept of the "odour of sanctity", to the aromatherapies of South America, and from olfactory stereotypes of gender and ethnicity in the modern West to the role of smell in postmodernity. Its subject matter will fascinate anyone who likes to nose around in the inner workings of culture.
Download or read book The Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scented Soaps written by Elaine Stavert and published by GMC PUBLICATIONS LTD. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To use a scented herbal soap is to partake of an element of ritual used down the centuries. Since time immemorial, aromatic oils, perfumes and herbs have been used to cleanse, anoint and scent the body for hygiene, medicinal purposes, worship and spiritual well-being. Yet today, we take many of the toiletries we use for granted. We don't know how they are made or what goes into them. So why not create some lather in your life and discover the wonderful craft of soap making? The latest ready-to-use 'melt-and-pour' soap bases are fast and easy to use, making it easy to craft, mould and shape fantastic vegetable glycerine soaps. Follow the easy step-by-step techniques and 13 recipes provided in this book and you will be delighted with the results - deliciously scented, textured and colourful soaps that you can use to pamper yourself or give to friends and family.
Download or read book Beauty Oils Butter written by Elaine Stavert and published by GMC PUBLICATIONS LTD. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty Oils & Butters' joins the Cozy series, presenting 30 sensuous delights to pamper yourself with from tip to toe.
