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! This was a very cute and educational book on aromas with some gorgeous graphic design and photography aesthetics, It was a nice quick beach read, I purchased this at calibanbookshop in Pittsburgh, PA,
I love these Chic Simple books, They're tiny, well illustrated, and every page ends with a period, They bill themselves as primers "for living well but sensibly in thes, . . for those who believe that quality of life does not come in accumulating things, but in paring down in the essentials, The more you know, the less you need, " Here are a few essential quotes, culled from the pages of Scents, that I thought you needed to know,

"Musk, the most tenacious scent, is still detected in onethousandyearold mosques constructed with perfumed mortar that exude scent when

heated by the sun, "

"Elizabethan women offered 'love apples' imbued with their underarm sweat to ardent suitors, "

"The sweetorange groves of Mediterranean Europe are the progeny of a single tree, still preserved in Lisbon, that Vasco da Gama brought back from China.
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"Stick to simple ideas and apply them scrupulously, " Pierre François Pascal, founder of the House of Guerlain

"In India, sunblinds imbued with vetiver are watered down at midday to add scent to every incoming breeze.
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"The sense of smell is the sense of imagination, " JeanJacques Rousseau

Vivid photography in this short book about scented materials, their properties, and their uses, Also includes suggestions and a partial directory of shops, A nice addition to the genre, A wonderful book to read and reread and savor the descriptions of smells and what they remind us plus some historical, scientific, and sociological facts about them, Text by Janine King, photographs by Maria Robledo.