This is a captivating exploration of the perfume industry's most precious ingredients, including the rose oil, which requires one million handpicked flowers. This reveals an elusive trade built on tradition and modernity, revealing the origins, cultural significance, and reasons behind the industry's most precious ingredients. It is filled with beautiful black-and-white illustrations, making it an irresistible exploration of the smells that fuel our nostalgia and suffuse our fantasies.   This book may contain a sharpie mark on the top or bottom edge and may show mild signs of shelfwear.