In Search of Scents - Sourcing the World's Perfumes

'[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.

Info autore

Dominique Roques

Riassunto

A journey across the world, revealing the beauty and mysteries of the perfume trade. The book also tackles the earth's changing climate conditions, with its impact on the sources of the world's scents.

Relazione

'A fresh and informative book of warmth and intelligence' Virginie Bloch-Lainé, Libération

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dominique Roques
• Con la collaborazione di: Stephanie Smee (Traduzione), Smee Stephanie (Traduzione)
• Editore: Welbeck
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.10.2022
• EAN: 9781914495168
• ISBN: 978-1-914495-16-8
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Salute > Bellezza / cosmesi; Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Singoli rami economici, branche; HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming, Fashion & beauty industries, Cosmetics, Hair & Beauty, Fashion and beauty industries