Essence and Alchemy

As long as there has been passion, there has been perfume. Wealthy Romans used to scent their doves while in Shakespeare''s time, a woman in love would place a peeled apple into her armpit to saturate it with her scent and then present it to her lover. Essence And Alchemy resurrects the social and metaphysical legacy that is entwined with the evolution of perfumery, from the dramas of the spice tr...