Perfumery

By Glen Pownall

Glen Pownall's Creative Leisure Series

Seven Seas Publishing, 1974 [First Edition], ISBN 854670262, photographic colour frontispiece, full page colour photographs, black and white illustrations throughout, hardcover with laminated photographic boards

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-library with stickers and stamps to front and back end-papers, front fly-leaf removed, hinge cracked, text block firm (see photographs)

"This is a book about sweet smells - of the way the scents of an Autumn evening can be entrapped, the perfumed dawn of a Spring day stored, the elusive enchantment of a pine wood made one's own forever.  It is a text of recipes nearly forgotten, of the secrets of the chemist, the apothecary and the alchemist.  In many ways it is a book of memories, of the days when time ran slower, when the air smelled cleaner and acres of flowers, herbs and shrubs became spirits of fragrance in bottles and drawers."