Product Description

With Nancy Booth's easy instructions and "Personal Scent Profile Quiz," readers will learn how to create customized perfume blends and re-create favorite commercial perfumes at a fraction of their retail price.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #184001 in Books
• Published on: 1997-01-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780882669854
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Library Journal
We live in a world surrounded by scents, some pleasant and some not always to our liking. Homemade natural scents can provide a pleasing alternative to commercial products. Booth, a teacher of perfumery, provides recipes for perfumes and other scented items using mainly essential oils, spices, herbs, and fruit extracts. A description of perfume ingredients and correct use of scents is included. Practical line drawings typical of this publisher accompany the text. A good selection for crafts collections.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Back Cover
Discover Your Signature Scent and Craft Truly Personal Perfumes at Home!

Just take the quick "personal scent profile" quiz in this book to pinpoint your fragrance preferences, then create perfumes, splashes, and colognes that are uniquely you!

Professional perfumer Nancy Booth provides step-by-step, illustrated instructions for making personal blends -- and creating your favorite perfumes -- using herbs, essential oils, fragrance oils, and alcohol.

With Perfumes, Splashes & Colognes you'll learn how to:
*Craft personal fragrances for the entire family
* Make fragrant mixtures for the home, including potpourris and burning perfumes
* Care for, store, and apply your homemade fragrances
* Package your creations as attractive gifts

About the Author
Nancy M. Booth is the author of the popular natural health and beauty book, Perfumes, Splashes & Colognes. However, Booth is also busy spending her time as owner and operator of Gingham `n Spice, Ltd., a wholesale and retail fragrance and country gift business. She has been selling dried herbs, potpourri, fragrance, essential oils and other similar items internationally since 1980. Nancy teaches classes in perfumery and lives in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful, easy to understand introduction to creating scent
Nancy Booth has taken what can sometimes seem a confusing hobby, creating your own fragrances, and broken it down into easy to understand language. Her brief description of the history of fragrances was interesting and informative. I also appreciated the list she provides categorizing many popular scents on the market today. The quick and simple quiz included allows you to pinpoint what types of fragrances you or your friends are most drawn to. Her descriptions of the various scent profiles also helped me pinpoint which fragrances would appeal to friends and relatives. In addition to all of this she provides numerous, easy to follow recipes for perfumes and colognes that can be created quite easily at home. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in creating their own fragrances.

A Little Treasure
Perfumes, Splashes & Colognes is an education in fragrance. This is a great book for the unschooled reader. The author takes you through many aspects of fragrances, their classifications, the crafting of fine perfume, and the history behind fragrances.

The recipes are informative with a description of the type of scent it will make along with the instructions. Resources for obtaining ingredients are included along with suggestions for storing, and gift giving. I have throughly enjoyed this book.

Nice recipes, but...
I rated this book a 3 because it wasn't really what I expected. While it was very helpful to have the various scent classifications, the history of perfume and the Q&A test for finding your personal scent categories, this simply took up too much of the book. I guess my problem is that I was looking specifically for a "recipe book," not a page-after-page listing of designer perfumes and what scent category they fall into. Not quite sure why the author devoted so much of the book to this when the book is supposed to be about crafting your own perfumes and scents. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of great information here and it is well presented, it just wasn't really what I had in mind when I bought the book. :)