BOOK - The Museum of Scent (Hardcover)

The Museum of Scent:

Exploring the Curious & Wondrous World of Fragrance

by Mandy Aftel

"The Museum of Scent invites you on a sensuous, imaginative journey! I created this beautiful book, illustrated with treasures from my museum's collection, so that readers at home can immerse themselves in the world of scent, and I even developed a scented bookmark to include with the book. I guide you through the different families of botanical fragrances (including flowers, herbs, and resins), depicting each plant with a hand-colored antique woodcut and revealing its olfactory notes and lore. Special chapters are devoted to the most rare and precious fragrances-such as ambergris, formed of a rare secretion of the sperm whale -and to evocative artifacts like antique essential oil bottles and handwritten recipe books."