Download or read book Profumi Spiati written by Mario Gallo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IRDA EDIZIONI La raccolta poetica di Mario Gallo sviscera l'emozione con quella forza lirica tipica dei poeti ermetici ma anche romantici. Nei versi emerge l'urlo del poeta, quello di chi vuol dire senza fermarsi; dire, dire e ancora dire ciò che l'anima sente, ciò che il cuore pulsa e l'occhio vede, tutto fatto con eccellente forza espressiva e con notevole trasporto da Mario che, su ogni foglio, mette in versi il vissuto proprio e non, regalando momenti di pura epifania poetica che esalta l'io e il sentimento, che cerca quella via della pace e dell'equilibrio. Un libro intenso, che si fa leggere con entusiasmo fino all'ultimo verso, lasciando qualcosa dentro a chi legge che può essere un sorriso o una riflessione profonda.
Download or read book In Search of Perfumes written by Dominique Roques and published by Mountain Leopard Press. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '[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.
Download or read book The Diary of a Nose written by Jean-Claude Ellena and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate exploration of inspiration and creativity, from the "parfumeur exclusif" of the house of Hermès. A scent has incantatory powers, capable of transporting you to your past, of kindling fantasies, of creating a vivid mise en scène—literally out of thin air. In the hands of the truly great, perfume creation is a kind of alchemy. Where does inspiration for this visceral art come from? How does one capture the essence of emotions, of desire? Jean-Claude Ellena has a sublime gift. As "parfumeur exclusif" (or "the nose") for Hermès, he elevates fragrance to an art form. A "writer of perfume," his concoctions are as finely composed and evocative as a haiku. He is also a conjurer of sorts: "I create an illusion that is actually stronger than reality . . . you enter the scent and follow the path." The Diary of a Nose is a collection of Ellena’s meditations on the world of scents, and what stirs his creation of some of the world’s most desired fragrances. Inspiration can come from anywhere—a market stall, a landscape, or even the movement of calligraphy. Though each smell has its own distinct character, a gifted perfumer creates olfactory experiences that are intensely personal and unique, that blossom on the body and leave a trace of us lingering after we have left a room. Seductive, delicate, and elegant as any of Ellena’s creations, The Diary of a Nose seeks to capture the most elusive facets of this rarefied and mysterious art.
Download or read book Fragances d azur written by Robert Castellana and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scent Trail written by Celia Lyttelton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique travel memoir, The Scent Trail charts a woman’s journey as she explores the magic and history behind the ingredients of her own bespoke perfume. When Celia Lyttelton visits a bespoke perfumer in London, she enters the heady and exotic world of scent. On a London backstreet she is transported to a world made up of thousands of oils, unguents and balms — all hidden away in an old Chinese medicine chest. And so begins Celia’s remarkable quest to discover the origin, history and culture of the many ingredients that make up her unique custom-made perfume. It is a quest that will take her from Tuscany to Morocco, from Sri Lanka to Tibet, 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 involved in this billion dollar industry. As Celia explores the mythology, history and culture behind ingredients such as jasmine, nutmeg, musk and ambergris, she paints a vivid portrait of this mysterious, sensual world, conjuring up the people she has met and the places she has visited on her scent trail.
Download or read book The Little Book of Perfumes written by Luca Turin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Perfumes, Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez reviewed nearly 1,500 fragrances in their witty, irreverent and innovative handbook - separating the divine from the good from the monumentally awful. Here in The Little Book of Perfumes the authors choose their 100 greatest fragrances of all time. Some are very famous, some hardly known, for women and men. There is Jicky (1889), unisex coeval of the Eiffel Tower and 'a towering masterpiece'; Chanel's No. 5 (1921), perhaps the world's most famous perfume, 'stretching deliciously like a sleepy panther'; Knize Ten which 'everyone should own because there is only one like it' and White Linen (1978), 'a canonical expression of the American ideal of sex appeal'. This is a perfect gift, a perfect browse.
Download or read book Fragrances of Love written by Max Lake and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Editions de Parfums Fr d ric Malle written by Marion Vignal and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume explores the inspirations and vision of one of the great protagonists of contemporary perfume. Parfumier Frédéric Malle was born into the world of fragrance; his grandfather Serge Heftler founded Dior Parfums before passing on its art direction to his daughter. Malle's deep knowledge of scents and his radical vision of perfumes led him to establish Éditions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, a house for perfumers where fragrances are conceived as haute couture creations. This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of Frédéric Malle's quest for beauty and creative freedom. Journalist Marion Vignal delves into Malle's lifelong devotion to perfume, personal history, and myriad inspirations to uncover the evolution of his precise olfactive aesthetics, while imagery of perfume bottles, sketches, advertising campaigns, and photos of boutiques explores his comprehensive vision. Malle offers readers an intimate glimpse into his brand's saga, and shares the stories behind four of his most successful scents in graphic novel form. A necessary addition to the libraries of industry masters, this volume is an invitation to a sensorial journey that will delight perfume lovers everywhere"--
Download or read book The Ghost Perfumer written by Gabe Oppenheim and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a genius and a fraud. For more than half a century, Olivier Creed, heir to a French fashion empire but out to conquer an adjacent field by himself, created the most compelling and costly perfumes in the world - scents so successful - artistically and commercially - that the world's largest asset manager bought his small olfactory enterprise for nearly $1 billion in 2020. One could arguably have called him the world's most capable perfumer. Except Olivier Creed never authored the scents for which he has long received acclaim and lucre. Gabe Oppenheim reveals the heretofore untold story behind this supposed-cologne colossus of a man - and the eponymous company that became a social media sensation: That scents were authored by someone else entirely - a brilliant ghostwriter - a hidden, scholarly figure with a great passion for Proust and an unfortunate tendency to doubt the quality of his own compositions. How these two figures met and the arrangement was struck - how they circled each other warily for the next 40 years - how lies, told often enough, became truths - Gabe Oppenheim examines as he journeys into the heart of an industry mystifying and fanciful, enormous and intimate, sensuous and yet so-damn-insubstantial. It's an expedition that takes him to a Creed shop in Dubai and the castle in Normandy where the Ghost resides, having left behind a Parisian world that, in some sense, never acknowledged him. And yet, he's a legend in a certain section of the scented demimonde for a few achievements so innovative he wouldn't yield them even to a charismatic manipulator. Oppenheim explores issues of attribution and artistry, credit and craftsmanship, ingenuity and disingenuousness. "The Ghost Perfumer" is the story of a genius and a fraud. And perhaps the greatest con in the history of luxury retail.
Download or read book Perfumes by Kenzo Traveling in the Land of Senses written by Véronique Durruty and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durruty and Guedj share a common artistic ideal focusing around the theme of travel depicted through the senses and sensations. This is vividly brought to life in this highly visual book, with images of nature contrasting with bustling city shots, and all inspired by the scents of Kenzo's different perfumes. Captions below the stunning photographs explain the links between image and smell. From the humidity of the Amazon forest to the scorched lands of the Kenyan savannah, from the azure Chilean skies to the nighttime streets of Tokyo, the journey through Kenzo's visions is poetic and sensual. These photographs illustrate abstract nature scenes in which the tiniest detail paves the way to wonder. This exploration of the colourful world of Kenzo perfumes invites readers to indulge all of their senses.
Download or read book Pr cieux effluves written by Jean-Marie Martin-Hattemberg and published by Editions Milan. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'univers du parfum à travers une soixantaine de maisons qui ont marqué la première moitié de ce siècle : parfumeurs de tradition, couturiers, fourreurs ou modistes ont signé des créations rares, des flacons, des coffrets décorés, des objets de parfumerie qui enflamment les salles de vente.
Download or read book Transports of Delight written by David Pybus and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a celebration through verse of man’s extraordinary sensory world of smell, connecting East and West. Here is a fascinating and delightful anthology, drawn from around the world and across the millennia, capturing a kaleidoscope of emotions, moods and memories, all of which are energized and enhanced by smells of every kind.
Download or read book Oblici mirisa Muzej za Umjetnost i Obrt Zagreb 19 3 7 4 2002 written by Vladimir Maleković and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Perfume of Cyprus written by Maria Rosaria Belgiorno and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perfume of Cyprus is an interesting and through-provoking read. Maria Rosaria Belgiorno demonstrates the significance of the production and use of perfumes from the Bronze Age to the present day with the case study of the wonderful archaeological site of Pyrgos; a site which has in situ examples of the differing implements and ceramics involved in perfume production. Notably she places Cyprus into the broader context which is an important aspect when considering the production and use of perfumes that clearly held significance. This is clear from the extensive trade of Cyprian perfumes which gives the island of Cyprus a central role in the trade of perfume and cosmetics. Indeed, the similarities and connections with Egyptian perfumes, in both their production and traditions, demonstrate the areas of contact and influences as well as allowing for a wonderful comparison. Whilst the production and trade perfumes has seen a continuation even to this day with a specific olfactory family. Additionally a significance of the specific ingredients has been made clear, although it is a shame the exact quantities and process of the production of the most ancient Cyprian perfumes is still unknown. (Perhaps this is scope for further research?) Certainly the importance held by certain key ingredients, such as wine, imbues further significance onto the perfumes themselves, not to mention the clear skill and knowledge needed in the choice of ingredients and the production. As such the ingredients are of interest when considering the modern day; even though presently chemicals are often used in the production of perfume, the significance and persistent use of wine, for example, in differing recipes and as a popular drink has been maintained throughout the centuries until the present day. Moreover the connection Maria Rosaria Belgiorno draws upon between scent, perfumes and cosmetics with divine powers, gods and goddesses, such as Aphrodite, brings the focus towards the beliefs and aspects important to contemporary prehistoric society. As well as the powerful connection of the human mind and scent which overall demonstrate the significance perfume held and therefore the importance of research into its production at Pyrgos and across Cyprus. The Perfume of Cyprus: from Pyrgos to Fran�ois Coty the Route of a Millenary Charm is a fascinating read which will allow the reader to really understand the world of scent both today and in the past. Amber Roy
Download or read book Perfume As Practice written by Michael Borkowsky and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at perfume from the context of portraiture.
Download or read book Mimosa written by Anne-Sophie Hojlo and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native to Australia and cultivated in India and Morocco, mimosa grows wild in the South of France, an environment in which it thrives. Its powdery, downy scent is one of winter's loveliest in the Northern Hemisphere. Its absolute gives off floral and green facets, as well as straw tones that add roundness and warmth to compositions. Discover the many faces of this flower of the garrigues by journeying through botany, art, gastronomy, history, agriculture and chemistry without overlooking, of course, perfume and perfumers.
Download or read book Etruscans written by Morgan Llywelyn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of the Roman Empire, the noble Etruscan civilization in Italy is waning, Vesi, a young Etruscan noblewoman, is violated by a renegade supernatural being. Outcast then from Etruria, Vesi bears Horatrim, a child who carries inexplicable knowledge and grows to manhood in only six years. But a savage Roman attack leaves Vesi unresponsive and Horatrim homeless and vulnerable, and he travels to Rome where his talents confound powerful businessman Propertius, who arranges to adopt Horatrim as a son, changing his name to Horatius. And all the while his demon father is seeking him to kill him, for Horatius is a conduit through which the demon might be found and destroyed. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
