In Search of Perfumes

A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents

von Dominique Roques

304 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A fascinating, personal, and life-long journey that unveils the secrets of a global industry by a leading expert in his field.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.

• Themen: Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Finanzen, Betriebswirtschaft und Management Industrien und Branchenstudien Einzel- und Großhandel
• ISBN: 9781914495168
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.10.2022
• Größe: 221 x 162 mm
• Verlag: Headline
• Übersetzung: Stephanie Smee