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When Celia Lyttleton visits a bespoke perfumers, one of only a handful in London, she enters the heady and exotic world of scent. From 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 a remarkable quest to discover the origin, history and culture of the many ingredients that make up Celia's 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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When Celia Lyttelton visited a bespoke perfumers, it was to realize a long-held ambition: to have a scent created solely for her. Entering this heady, exotic world of oils, extracts and essences, she was transported from a leafy square in London 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…
When Celia Lyttleton visits a bespoke perfumers, one of only a handful in London, she enters the heady and exotic world of scent. From 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 a remarkable quest to discover the origin, history and culture of the many ingredients that make up Celia's 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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When Celia Lyttelton visited a bespoke perfumers, it was to realize a long-held ambition: to have a scent created solely for her. Entering this heady, exotic world of oils, extracts and essences, she was transported from a leafy square in London 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 discovery that took Celia from Grasse, the cradle of perfumery, in search of spicy-scented mimosa, to the citrus groves of Morocco and the sweet-smelling neroli oil; from the rose-growing region of Isparta in Turkey, where five tons of petals are harvested to make just one litre of rose oil, to Italy and the iris which grows on the rugged Tuscan hills.
After journeying to Sri Lanka and India, the home of the heavenly scented jasmine and saffron crocus, Celia continued to the Yemen in search of frankincense and myrrh, and on to Socotra, once described as the ‘Island of Bliss’. Here she traced ambergris, possibly the rarest and most mysterious agent in perfumery, 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 perfume houses, to the ‘noses’ who create the scents and the marketing kings who rule this powerful, billion-dollar industry, Celia Lyttelton paints a colourful panorama of sights, sounds and aromas. It is a mystical, sensual landscape that vividly conjures up the extraordinary people and places she has encountered on her unique scent trail.
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