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| The Scent Trail: A Journey of the Senses | 
 enlarge | Author: Celia Lyttelton
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
Buy New: $11.16
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 345334
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0553815490
EAN: 9780553815498
ASIN: 0553815490
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
Release Date: June 3, 2008
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Product Description
A unique travel memoir, The Scent Trail charts a woman?s journey as she explores the magic and history behind the ingredients of her own bespoke perfume.
When Celia Lyttelton visits a bespoke perfumer in London, she enters the heady and exotic world of scent. On a London backstreet she is transported to a world made up of thousands of oils, unguents and balms ? all hidden away in an old Chinese medicine chest.
And so begins Celia?s remarkable quest to discover the origin, history and culture of the many ingredients that make up her unique custom-made perfume. It is a quest that will take her from Tuscany to Morocco, from Sri Lanka to Tibet, from the peasants and farmers growing their own crops and the traders who sell to the perfume houses, to the ?noses? who create the scents and the marketing kings involved in this billion dollar industry.
As Celia explores the mythology, history and culture behind ingredients such as jasmine, nutmeg, musk and ambergris, she paints a vivid portrait of this mysterious, sensual world, conjuring up the people she has met and the places she has visited on her scent trail.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Pilgrimage of Scent December 26, 2007
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
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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