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Perfumery: Practice and Principles


Authors: Robert R. Calkin and J. Stephan Jellinek
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Copyright: 1994
ISBN: 0471589349

 

 

 

Who Will Find This Book Essential?

Informative and practically essential to those working in the Fragrance and Perfumery Industries. An easy read referential text covering all aspects of Perfumery.

 

What's Inside

A practical handbook to the formulation and analysis of modern science of perfume manufacturing. Mapping changing technologies; real-life case studies; Meeting future creative and material challenges; From conception of a fragrance though to the creation of detergents, soaps, cosmetics and designer perfumes. Comprehensive charts, tables and diagrams highlight key methods.

 

The Back Cover

A text/reference regarding the structure and function of components used in perfume development and the process of developing perfumes. Covers gas chromatography, mass spectrometry and a host of other analytical techniques; the esthetics and techniques of perfume development; the manifold and ever-changing safety-related requirements of countries and customers; concerns about the environmental impact of materials and impurities which affect the perfumer's work.

Table of Contents

BASIC SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES.

What It Takes to Be a Perfumer.

The Student Perfumer Today.

The Technique of Smelling.

Perfumery Raw Materials.

The Floral Accords.

The Technique of Matching.

AESTHETICS AND THE FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPOSITION.

The Structure of a Perfume.

The Use of Bases.

STUDIES IN FINE FRAGRANCE.

The Descent of Perfumes.

Selected Great Perfumes.

ASPECTS OF CREATIVE PERFUMERY.

The Challenge of New Materials.

The Perfumer and the Market.

SCIENTIFIC FUNDAMENTALS.

Chemical Reactions in Perfumery.

The Physical Basis of Perfumery.

Psychophysics and Perfumery.

Appendices.

Bibliography.

Indexes.

 

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Perfumery: Practice and Principles
by Robert R. Calkin and J. Stephan Jellinek

Available in Hardcover

 


 

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