A History Of Scent
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A History Of Scent
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Author : Roy Genders
language : en
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Release Date : 1972
A History Of Scent written by Roy Genders and has been published by Hamish Hamilton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Health & Fitness categories.
The Essence Of Beauty
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Author : Aytoun Ellis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Essence Of Beauty written by Aytoun Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Cosmetics categories.
Scents Of Time
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Author : Edwin T. Morris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Scents Of Time written by Edwin T. Morris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Perfume bottles categories.
The Ephemeral History Of Perfume
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Author : Holly Dugan
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
The Ephemeral History Of Perfume written by Holly Dugan and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves deeply into the cultural archive of olfaction to explore what a sense of smell reveals about everyday life in early modern England. In this book, Dugan focuses on six important scents—incense, rose, sassafras, rosemary, ambergris, and jasmine. She links these smells to the unique spaces they inhabited—churches, courts, contact zones, plague-ridden households, luxury markets, and pleasure gardens—and the objects used to dispense them. This original approach provides a rare opportunity to study how early modern men and women negotiated the environment in their everyday lives and the importance of smell to their daily actions. Dugan defines perfume broadly to include spices, flowers, herbs, animal parts, trees, resins, and other ingredients used to produce artificial scents, smokes, fumes, airs, balms, powders, and liquids. In researching these Renaissance aromas, Dugan uncovers the extraordinary ways, now largely lost, that people at the time spoke and wrote about smell: objects “ambered, civited, expired, fetored, halited, resented, and smeeked” or were described as “breathful, embathed, endulced, gracious, halited, incensial, odorant, pulvil, redolent, and suffite.” A unique contribution to early modern studies, The Ephemeral History of Perfume is an unparalleled study of olfaction in the Renaissance, a period in which new scents and important cultural theories about smell were developed. Dugan’s inspired analysis of a wide range of underexplored sources makes available to scholars a remarkable wealth of information on the topic.
Scent
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Author : Elise Vernon Pearlstine
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2022-05-24
Scent written by Elise Vernon Pearlstine and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with Science categories.
A fascinating exploration of the natural history of scent and human perceptions of fragrance from the viewpoint of plant and pollinator Plants have long harnessed the chemical characteristics of aromatic compounds to shape the world around them. Frankincense resin from the genus Boswellia seals injured tissues and protects trees from invading pathogens. Jasmine produces a molecule called linalool that attracts pollinating moths with its flowery scent. Tobacco uses a similarly sweet-smelling compound called benzyl acetone to attract pollinators. Only recently in the evolutionary history of plants, however, have humans learned to co-opt their fragrances to seduce, heal, protect, and alter moods themselves. In this wide-ranging and accessible new book, biologist-turned-perfumer Elise Vernon Pearlstine turns our human-centered perception of fragrance on its head and investigates plants' evolutionary reasons for creating aromatic molecules. Delving into themes of spirituality, wealth, power, addiction, royalty, fantasy, and more, Pearlstine uncovers the natural history of aromatic substances and their intersection with human culture and civilization.
The Essence Of Beauty
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Author : Aytoun Ellis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
The Essence Of Beauty written by Aytoun Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Cosmetics categories.
The Ephemeral History Of Perfume
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Author : Holly Dugan
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2011-09-14
The Ephemeral History Of Perfume written by Holly Dugan and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves deeply into the cultural archive of olfaction to explore what a sense of smell reveals about everyday life in early modern England. In this book, Dugan focuses on six important scents -- incense, rose, sassafras, rosemary, ambergris, and jasmine. She links these smells to the unique spaces they inhabited -- churches, courts, contact zones, plague-ridden households, luxury markets, and pleasure gardens -- and the objects used to dispense them. This original approach provides a rare opportunity to study how early modern men and women negotiated the environment in their everyday lives and the importance of smell to their daily actions. Dugan defines perfume broadly to include spices, flowers, herbs, animal parts, trees, resins, and other ingredients used to produce artificial scents, smokes, fumes, airs, balms, powders, and liquids. In researching these Renaissance aromas, Dugan uncovers the extraordinary ways, now largely lost, that people at the time spoke and wrote about smell: objects "ambered, civited, expired, fetored, halited, resented, and smeeked" or were described as "breathful, embathed, endulced, gracious, halited, incensial, odorant, pulvil, redolent, and suffite." A unique contribution to early modern studies, The Ephemeral History of Perfume is an unparalleled study of olfaction in the Renaissance, a period in which new scents and important cultural theories about smell were developed. Dugan's inspired analysis of a wide range of underexplored sources makes available to scholars a remarkable wealth of information on the topic.
Smell And History
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Author : Mark Michael Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Smell And History written by Mark Michael Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Odors categories.
Aroma
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Author : Constance Classen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11-01
Aroma written by Constance Classen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Smell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. This book breaks the "olfactory silence" of modernity. It offers the first comprehensive exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history - from antiquity to the present. It also covers a wide variey of non-Western societies. Its topics range from the medieval concept of the "odour of sanctity", to the aromatherapies of South America, and from olfactory stereotypes of gender and ethnicity in the modern West to the role of smell in postmodernity. Its subject matter will fascinate anyone who likes to nose around in the inner workings of culture.
The Perfume Lover A Personal Story Of Scent
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Author : Denyse Beaulieu
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2012-03-15
The Perfume Lover A Personal Story Of Scent written by Denyse Beaulieu and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘Why couldn’t I be a perfumer’s muse? I’ve come such a long way in the realm of scent. In fact, I was never really meant to poke my nose into it ...’ The Perfume Lover by Denyse Beaulieu is an intimate journey into the mystery of scent.