Informative about perfume and immensely entertaining, Mandy Aftel’s charming chapters about various exotic and not-so-exotic perfume ingredients, reveal her love for scent and her endless fascination with perfume. She draws many analogies between other art forms and perfume. There are chapters that talk about heart, base, and head notes and the history and function of particular ingredients. A good read.
Informative about perfume and immensely entertaining, Mandy Aftel’s charming chapters about various exotic and not-so-exotic perfume ingredients, reveal her love for scent and her endless fascination with perfume. She draws many analogies between other art forms and perfume. There are chapters that talk about heart, base, and head notes and the history and function of particular ingredients. A good read.
