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Perfumes, Splashes & Colognes: Discovering and Crafting Your Personal Fragrances | 
 enlarge | Author: Nancy M. Booth
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $6.99
You Save: $7.96 (53%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 158766
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0882669850
Dewey Decimal Number: 668.54
EAN: 9780882669854
ASIN: 0882669850
Publication Date: January 11, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New-Never Read-may have light wear to cover or edges-Great Copy-publishers mark
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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Good Book July 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are just starting out this is a great book. It breaks down a lot of info and gives you some great recipes to try on your own.
Very Helpful April 4, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I pretty much knew nothing about perfumes before I read this book. I know quite a bit about aromatherapy, but not perfumes. For me, this book was easy to read/follow and I liked the history that it included. The recipes in the book were pretty basic and were fun and easy to try out. A "must read" for anyone wanting to start learning about perfumes.
Great Book January 3, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book arrived on time and was exactly as described. It's been fun playing around with making my own fragrances and not having to pay top dollar to smell good (smile). Will purchase from this company again!
Good Basic Text on Perfume June 27, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Good exposition of history of perfume, basic types, and so on. Good instructions on how to start making your own.
Lets think a little, before rating March 18, 2006
31 out of 35 found this review helpful
Some Amazon reviewers seem to miss completely the point of the books they are rating. One example: among the reviews of a book on yoga for (very) fat people, some commentators criticize the author for changing some of the classical positions. If one can work out the correct positions, why is he(she) meddling into, and messing up, the references for less fortunate people?
This book is another case. It clearly states that it is for beginers (and, by the way, never claims to be solely about 'natural' perfumes). A couple of reviewers criticize it for containing a classification of popular commercial perfumes into the categories of scents that is used in the text.
Is it really that difficult to figure out why such a table is useful for someone that is seeing a perfumes classification scheme for the first time? For those that still don't get it: it's because you exemplify each category with a scent that the reader either very probably knows (since he's reading a book on perfumes, chances are he knows the most common commercial ones) or can easily go to a nearby drugstore and try it.
Not only that, but we can all presume that one of the pleasures of learning the basics of perfume-making is when, for the first time, you make a "perfect copy" of commercially successfull product.
This is the sort of explanation that naturaly comes to anyone that approaches a book with a clear, good-natured mind. People who are unable to put themselves into the targeted audience's shoes would do better avoiding the confusion they create with their self-centered opinions.
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