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The Scent Trail | 
 enlarge | Author: Celia Lyttelton
Publisher: Bantam Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 343554
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.9 x 1.5
ISBN: 0593051149
EAN: 9780593051146
ASIN: 0593051149
Publication Date: July 8, 2008
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When Celia Lyttelton visited a bespoke perfumers, she realized a long-held ambition: to have a scent created solely for her. Entering this heady, exotic world of oils and essences, she was transported from a leafy London square to a place of long-forgotten memories and sensory experiences. And once drawn into this world, she felt compelled to trace the origins, history and culture of the many ingredients that made up her unique perfume...And so began a magical journey of the senses that took Celia from Grasse, the cradle of perfume, to Morocco; from the rose-growing region of Isparta in Turkey, to the Tuscan hills where the iris grows wild. And after journeying to Sri Lanka, the home of the heavenly scented jasmine, Celia ventured to India, the Yemen and finally to the 'Island of Bliss', Socotra. Here she traced the rarest and most mysterious agent in perfumery, ambergris, which is found in the bellies of whales and is said to have powerful aphrodisiac qualities. From the peasants and farmers growing their own crops, and the traders who sell to the great perfume houses, to the 'noses' who create the scents and the marketing kings who rule this powerful billion-dollar industry, Celia Lyttelton paints a mystical, sensual landscape of sights, sounds and aromas as she recalls the extraordinary people and places she encountered on her unique "Scent Trail".
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 Pilgrimage of Scent December 26, 2007
Lauren Holmes (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you love travel books and perfume, this is perfect. Celia Lyttelton takes her readers behind the scenes to scent sites around the world in her quest to not just create but understand her bespoke perfume. Her style is straightforward and conversational rather than flowery, which I found added punch to her descriptions of fragrance and place. She made me want to run out and sniff whole nutmegs and buttery iris bulbs.
This is a book I'll read again and again.
 A magical, vicarious thrill. If you love natural aromatics, you must read this book. September 25, 2007
Anya McCoy (Miami, USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The author is a world traveler, led around by her nose and her deep understanding of, and passion for, natural aromatics. Her vivid imagery and ability to describe a scent - which is actually a difficult skill - will waft you along on clouds of smoldering frankincense, sweet and deeply dark jasmine and buttery orris roots drying in the sun. This is one of the most evocative and delightful books I have ever come across on the hypnotic world of natural fragrances. It pulled me in like a suspenseful thriller, a page turner that I just couldn't put down.
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