Author: Monika Junemann Publisher: Lotus Press ISBN: 9780941524360 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 132
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This book will carry you away to a world of exquisite, enchanting scents. Various fragrances affect our moods, may stimulate and excite us, bring us calmness and harmony, bewitch and inspire or even heal. Since ancient times essential oils and incense have been employed in healing, for seduction and for religious rituals. This book particularly addresses their subtle influences, but also presents and describes the plants from which they are obtained.
Author: Jonas Rosenbrück Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438499728 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 359
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The sense of smell has long been the most neglected of the human senses in literature. Common Scents sets out to undo this forgetting of olfactory sense-making by tracing the appearance of odors in modern German and French poetry. Jonas Rosenbrück argues that smell's persistence undermines modernity's self-image as an ocular age and shows how scents index a veritable "revolution of the senses." Such a revolution, as a redistribution of the senses, would make the common and shared character of our existence in scented atmospheres perceptible. Bringing contemporary ecocritical interest in atmospheres, air, and the senses into dialogue with literary criticism, theories of modernity, and political philosophy, Common Scents provides novel interpretations of figures such as Friedrich Hölderlin, Charles Baudelaire, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Bertolt Brecht. These readings demonstrate how all terrestrial life is interlinked in the aerial commons that escapes the privatizing grasp of what Karl Marx called the "sense of having." Reformulating Bruno Latour, Rosenbrück argues that we have never been deodorized. In attending to this fact, Common Scents reconfigures subjectivity, corporeality, and politics.
Author: Chrissie Wildwood Publisher: Piatkus Books ISBN: 9780749919641 Category : Aromatherapy Languages : en Pages : 0
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'The perfect book for the would-be perfumes who wants to feel and smell good' Here's Health 'An aromatherapy book with a difference' Woman
Author: Barbara Herman Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493002023 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 293
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An intriguing look at vintage perfume's powerful past, including reviews of more than 300 scents, with stunning period advertisements throughout.
Author: M. J. Rose Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451621302 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 386
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A sweeping and suspenseful tale of secrets, intrigue, and lovers separated by time, all connected through the mystical qualities of a perfume created in the days of Cleopatra--and lost for 2,000 years.
Author: Catherine Maxwell Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198701756 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 388
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Explores Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses. A selection of poems, essays, and fiction, exploring these texts with reference to both the little-known cultural history of perfume use and the appreciation of natural fragrance in Victorian Britain. It shows how scent and perfume are used to convey not merely moods and atmospheres but the nuances of the aesthete or decadent's carefully cultivated identity, personality, or sensibility.
Author: Jonathan Reinarz Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252096029 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 297
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In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds. This broad survey demonstrates how each community or commodity possesses, or has been thought to possess, its own peculiar scent. Through the meanings associated with smells, osmologies develop--what cultural anthropologists have termed the systems that utilize smells to classify people and objects in ways that define their relations to each other and their relative values within a particular culture. European Christians, for instance, relied on their noses to differentiate Christians from heathens, whites from people of color, women from men, virgins from harlots, artisans from aristocracy, and pollution from perfume. This reliance on smell was not limited to the global North. Around the world, Reinarz shows, people used scents to signify individual and group identity in a morally constructed universe where the good smelled pleasant and their opposites reeked. With chapters including "Heavenly Scents," "Fragrant Lucre," and "Odorous Others," Reinarz's timely survey is a useful and entertaining look at the history of one of our most important but least-understood senses.
Author: Eve LeFey Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp. ISBN: 0806536462 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 326
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Make your own oils, blends, and fragrances--and make your dreams come true! The proper oils, blends, and fragrances are central to the practice of Wicca, and essential for many spells, candle magick, mojo bags, ritual bathing, incenses, floor washes, potpourri, anointing sacred objects, and much more. For over thirty years, Wiccan expert Lady Rhea has been creating her own special formulas that she supplies to some of the world's quintessential Pagan stores such as The Warlock Shoppe and Enchantments--and now she shares them with you! In The Enchanted Formulary, Lady Rhea gives you the recipes that she's perfected over three decades and also shows you where to get some of the harder-to-find ingredients. Some of the 300 blends included are formulas for love; money, luck, and success; healing and personal transformation; and uncrossing and protection. You'll also learn: • The magick of oils • Mixology (how to mix and blend) • Magical application (different uses of oils for magickal purposes) • Popular perfume fragrances today and the their role in magick • Astrological influences on when to blend your oils The Enchanted Formulary can be easily used on its own or with Lady Rhea's The Enchanted Candle, and each recipe comes with detailed information on the origins of the fragrance. The road to self-empowerment begins here! Praise for The Enchanted Candle "The Enchanted Candle includes rituals for every occasion together with details on the basics of 'how to do it' and--most important--why this all works. All aspects are here: candles, oils, herbs, seals; all the ancillary items plus where to find them. This is a complete book that you'll use time and again." --Raymond Buckland, author of Practical Candleburning Rituals and Advanced Candle Magick
Author: Janice Carlisle Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190290064 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 232
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Who smells? Surveying nearly eighty novels written in the 1860s to answer that impolite question, Common Scents provides a new reading of Victorian values, particularly as they assess the relative merits of men and women, spirit and matter. In depictions of comparative encounters, the commonplace meetings of everyday life, such fiction often registers the inequalities that distinguish one individual from another by marking one of them with a smell. In a surprisingly consistent fashion, these references constitute what cultural anthropologists call an osmology, a system of differentiations that reveals the status within a particular culture of the persons and things associated with specific odors. Featuring often innocuous and even potentially pleasing aromas emanating from food, flowers, and certain kinds of labor, novels of the 1860s array their characters into distinct categories, finding in some rather than others olfactory proof of their materiality. Central to this osmology is the difference between characters who give off odors and those who do not, and this study draws upon the work of Victorian psychophysiologists and popular commentators on the senses to establish the subtlety with which fictional representations make that distinction. By exploring the far-reaching implications of this osmology in specific novels by Dickens, Eliot, Meredith, Oliphant, Trollope, and Yonge, Common Scents argues that the strikingly similar plots and characterizations typical of the 1860s, responding as they do to the economic and political concerns of the decade, reconfigure conventional understandings of the relations between men and women. Determining who smells reveals what Victorian culture at its epitome takes for granted as a deeply embedded common sense, the recognition of whose self-evident truth seems to be as instinctive and automatic as a response to an odor.
Author: Ronnie Alexander Publisher: Mayorline via PublishDrive ISBN: Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 63
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Stand Out With Your Own Signature Scent Looking for simple, organic fragrance recipes? Look no further. In this book, you have everything you need to experiment with different scents. As a beginner or professional, you can learn perfume making skills or enhance your existing skills with the wide range of easy recipes in this book. Now is the time to have fun creating blends of different essential oils together with other natural ingredients to form beautiful aromatic fragrances that will stand you out. With over 50 recipes to choose from, you will never get bored. All the ingredients in these recipes are natural and readily available at your neighborhood store. Have a glimpse of a few of the rich contents of this book: 1. 55 recipes of easy, organic perfumes. 2. The advantages of making your own perfume. 3. Benefits of the basic ingredients that you need 4. Helpful Tips For Perfume Making 5. Customizable alternatives for perfumes according to individual preferences 6. Perfume making for your dog 7. And a whole lot more! So buy this book, experience the easy art of perfume making with friends and family. Be a crowd puller, master the art of perfume making today!
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