A cartography of fragrance that charts the Botany and geography of perfume composition.
Full-page entries on plants ranging from bergamot to lavender are accompanied by detailed and vivid full-color botanical illustrations..
Ellena offers a varied and fascinating cartography of fragrances, tracing historical connections and cultural exchanges.
In Atlas of Perfumed Botany , virtuoso perfumer Jean-claude Ellena leads readers on a poetic, geographic, and botanical journey of perfume discovery.
All perfumers have their own idiosyncratic methods, drawn from their individual olfactory experiences, for classifying fragrances.
For perfume makers, each smell carries with it a multitude of associations and impressions that must be carefully analyzed and understood before the sum of all its parts emerges.
A cartography of fragrance that charts the Botany and geography of perfume composition
