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Overview
The Perfume of Life trilogy chronicles the recent experiences and work in Mexico by a collective of pioneers who explore expressions of Nature.
The program is premised on the idea that the story of Life on Earth is best related in the language of molecules, organic messaging metabolites that travel in our environments presently and through all history, and constitute the fundamental currency of information among living beings. And so, by beholding the narrative channelled by perfume, we come to appreciate most incisively the story of, and the present siege being laid to Life. The project and all the detailed writing follows from this proposition.
The Perfume of Life comprises an unparalleled series of conversations in the matter of storytelling vapors of Nature, on distillation and extraction technologies, the science of drawing out or intercepting the chemical communications of vital beings, and including also classes presented to baristas and oenologists on the respective physical bases and neurobiological perception of espresso and wine, and tutorials on the aesthetic analysis of scent, and investigations into the fragrance of dirt and death and wine and sex, into the nature of sweetness and fruitiness and spiciness and juiciness, and love and war and beauty and much more, like the significance of pheromones and deterpenation, alchemical traditions and vacuum filtration, perfume terminology and alcohol emulsions, pollination ecology and potions of seduction, that is, workshops on aphrodisiacal elixirs and their production, also trials involving Indian attars, and how to build fragrant accords, and lessons on comparative forms and media of art, and reviews of notable molecules such as 1,8-cineole and linalyl acetate, methyl chavicol and eugenol, camphor and many more, and accounts of xenobiotic compounds introduced to the biosphere, namely synthetic musks and aldehydes and ionones, and surveys of violations by the fraudful Perfume Industry and the associated biophobic campaigns of fashion houses, and training in the detection of dupery with respect to counterfeit volatile oils, and proceedings of rowdy plant perfume panels that feature metabolic expressions of saffron acacia mistletoe and magnolia, aloeswood honeysuckle osmanthus and gardenia, tarragon tuberose lotus and boronia, labdanum linden karo-karounde and angelica, and a good many others.
By means of this program of exercises and studies, the epic saga of Life on Earth is uniquely depicted, and a set of principles and rationale for a movement in defense of Living Creation is advanced. By means of the series of salons related, the protagonist Salonnier and his helpmates advocate on behalf of Nature in a manner that is unprecedented in the history of literature.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780997534122 |
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| Publisher: | Ediciones Vanguardistas |
| Publication date: | 08/01/2016 |
| Series: | Perfume of Life , #1 |
| Pages: | 280 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.63(d) |
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents.....perfumes of negotiation
.....perfumes of urgency
.....perfumes of inherency
.....perfumes of desolation
.....perfumes of revelation
.....perfumes of representation (karo-karounde)
.....perfumes of volatility (distillation)
.....perfumes of fancy
.....perfumes of sacrament (spikenard)
.....perfumes of petition
.....perfumes of perception
.....perfumes of malice
.....perfumes of temperament (pink peppercorn)
.....perfumes of preoccupation
.....perfumes of circumstance (wine)
.....perfumes of turpitude
.....perfumes of affirmation
.....perfumes of combustion (sweet vernal grass)
.....perfumes of affliction (lavandin)
.....perfumes of provocation
.....perfumes of propriety (acacia)
.....perfumes of connotation
.....perfumes of contingency
.....perfumes of detonation (musks)
.....perfumes of vacancy
.....perfumes of elaboration
.....perfumes of pursuance (clary)
.....perfumes of resistance (melissa)
.....perfumes of faith
.....perfumes of resolution
.....perfumes of divergence (labdanum)
.....perfumes of permutation (ionones)
.....perfumes of transmission
.....perfumes of presumption (saffron)
.....perfumes of assertion
.....perfumes of purview
.....perfumes of sedition (iso-e-super)
.....perfumes of jeopardy
.....perfumes of particularity (linden blossom)
.....perfumes of onslaught (aldehydes)
.....perfumes of beauty
.....perfumes of grade
.....perfumes of doubt
.....perfumes of position (citral)
.....perfumes of everything
.....perfumes of polarity (resins)
.....perfumes of activity
.....perfumes of place (mitti)
.....perfumes of psalm (tarragon)
.....perfumes of harmony (tuberose)
.....perfumes of protest
.....perfumes of orientation (galbanum)
.....perfumes of ascendancy
.....perfumes of correlation
.....perfumes of decay
.....perfumes of derivation (honeysuckle)
.....perfumes of discord
.....perfumes of consequence (spices)
.....perfumes of journey
.....perfumes of observance
.....perfumes of procession
.....perfumes of testimony
.....perfumes of capitulation