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Perfume
- The Alchemy of Scent
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
To women the whole world over, perfume means glamour, and in the world of perfume, Jean-Claude Ellena is a superstar. In this one-of-a-kind book, the master himself takes you through the doors of his laboratory and explains the process of creating precious fragrances, revealing the key methods and recipes involved in this mysterious alchemy.
Perfume is a cutthroat, secretive multibillion-dollar industry, and Ellena provides an insider's tour, guiding us from initial inspiration through the mixing of essences and synthetic elements, to the deluxe packaging and marketing in elegant boutiques worldwide, and even the increasingly complicated safety standards that are set in motion for each bottle of perfume that is manufactured. He explains how the sense of smell works, using a palette of fragrant materials, and how he personally chooses and composes a perfume. He also reveals his unique way of creating a fragrance by playing with our olfactory memories in order to make the perfume seductive and desired by men and women the world over. Perfume illuminates the world of scent and manufactured desire by a perfumer who has had clients the likes of Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, and Hermés.
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- James
- 03-09-20
Great insight
You definitely get a glimpse into how things are done by a professional perfumer, as well as the business itself. the most useful aspects of the book are the materials and the practices as the list of materials will give you a great comparison to your own collection. It was good to find I was on the right path when it came to practices, learning and using materials in dillution.
If your expecting formulas etc. go buy a gcms for god sake!
The performance of the voice actor can be cringy at times because of the pronunciation errors and unnecessary words pronounced with a French accent. I was convinced he was robot AI too but wasn't a bad thing very consistant I guess haha
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- Anonymous User
- 13-10-19
Dreadful.
More like a text book and read by a monotone, droning American with the most ludicrous pronunciations of words like: niche which, he pronounced "nitch". Twat.
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