Introduction to Perfumery

-learn the secrets of fragrance, scents invoke memory- me a master of memory invocation. create a scent that is so wonderful that people will cry out, an praise you, will weep, will give ecstatic praise, will cover their wretched sweaty pheremonal apocalypse with a pleasant, perhaps discordant, perhaps unknown aromA

The Bible with a few formulas of necessary bases, like a rose, tuberose, lily of the valley, etc...

The book is clean with all of its pages but in has a major crack in the hard cover that may lead to losing some pages close to the crack.

This book provides the reader with in depth information on business and building accords but it goes much further in the perfumery process. It helps to introduce the perfumer to a common odor vocabulary as well as helping to identify and study the different fragrance families. It also covers the concepts of fragrance chemistry in detail. It also has monographs on different aroma chemicals which is nice but rather outdated to today’s modern materials. There is quite a bit about marketing that includes the structure of perfumery houses as well as matching fragrance to products all of which can be beneficial regardless of your choice of employment. Both authors, Tony Curtis and David Williams are known and respected in the field of perfumery and both are authors of several other books. An Introduction to Perfumery is also used in the education classes offered by the International Federation of Essential Oils and Aroma Trades, class information can be found at [...]All in all this is a serious book that will help the novice perfumer learning how to make things work without having to enroll in a formal class situation. While it does not provide the reader with specific perfume formulas it does provide for numerous single note accords that can be worked out and modified as the perfumer designs. It is beneficial when wanting to learn more about essential oils, aroma chemicals, blending, and the business end of perfumery. One of the few books out there today that actually helps in education instead of just offering opinions. I would give this book a five star but some of the ingredients studied are a bit out dated for today's formulations.

Una introducción completa al mundo de la perfumería, desde los aspectos de producción, marketing, formulación, etc. Adecuado para un aficionado que quiere tomarse este tema en serio.

Much of the text is fine, as an interested person in the industry the technical data needs updating,ie Lyral and Lilial in the demo suggestion formulationI

Paid a premium price for this book only to be disappointed. Wrongly sold and described as a text book on perfumery. Very little on the actual making of perfumes. Lacking in real information on making perfumes. But loads of waffle on whats needed to set up a perfume business such as accounting, tax regulation etc.