The Perfume Handbook by Nigel Groom

The Perfume Handbook by Nigel Groom

This encyclopaedic reference covers all aspects of modern and traditional perfumery. Each entry includes information on botanical identity, origin, use, history, folklore and examples of the perfumes in which it is a constituent. There are similar entries for modern synthetic ingredients. Detailed descriptions of 200 top commercial fragrances of the present day include their main ingredients, their creators and biographies of those who designed their bottles. The differents types and families of perfumes are listed, together with information on how to choose, use and keep a perfume. There is also a section on home perfume making, which includes an appendix of ancient and modern perfume recipes and formulas.

PETER ACKROYD Novelist and biographer PAUL BAINES Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Liverpool INGA BRYDEN Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, King Alfred's College, Winchester DAVID FAIRER Reader in Eighteenth-Century Poetry, University of Leeds JOHN GOODRIDGE Senior Lecturer in English, Nottingham Trent University RICHARD HOLMES Biographer BRIDGET KEEGAN Assistant Professor of English, Creighton University, Omaha GEORGES LAMOINE Lecturer in English Literature and History, Université du Mirail MARIA GRAZIA LOLLA Senior Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University TIMOTHY MORTON Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado CLAUDE RAWSON Maynard Mack Professor of English, Yale University PAT ROGERS DeBartolo Professor of the Liberal Arts, University of South Florida MICHAEL SUAREZ, SJ Junior Research Fellow, St John's College, Oxford CAROLYN D. WILLIAMS Lecturer, Department of English, University of Reading MICHAEL WOOD Professor of English, Princeton University

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ISBN 13	9780412463204
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Titel	The Perfume Handbook
Autor	Nigel Groom
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Verlag	Chapman and Hall
Erscheinungsjahr	1992-05-15
Seitenanzahl	323
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