寻找香水：寻找大自然气味来源的生命之旅 In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Natures Scents 英文原版 Dominique Roques

基本信息

Format Hardback | 304 pages

Dimensions 140 x 210 x 26mm | 454g

Publication date 02 May 2023

Publisher Harpervia

Language English

ISBN10 0063297957

ISBN13 9780063297951

书籍信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在这本令人陶醉的历史、游记和回忆录的混合物中，香水业领先的天然成分侦察员之一讲述了制造我们喜爱的香水所需的珍贵成分的故事。

你知道生产一公斤玫瑰油需要多少朵花吗？一百万朵玫瑰，每朵都是手工采摘的。说到自然，多米尼克-罗克是一个独特的人物。在过去的三十年里，他与全球各地的当地社区紧密合作，建立了对香水制作至关重要的天然成分的可持续供应。

从萨尔瓦多以传统方法种植的树脂到印度像泰姬陵一样古老的玫瑰油蒸馏厂，他的网络社交账号揭示了建立在传统和现代的断层上的难以捉摸的贸易。通过《寻找香水》，罗克讲述了这个行业珍贵的17种成分的故事--它们来自哪里，它们的文化和历史意义，以及我们为什么喜欢它们--从印度尼西亚的广藿香到 "大马士革玫瑰"，其中交织着他自己对生活和工作的回忆和思考。

从安达卢西亚到索马里兰，罗克斯带领我们参观了一个庞大而微妙的生态系统，该系统完全由作为其看守者的工匠们维持。老挝北部的热带丛林与世隔绝，是安息香的仅有产地，几个世纪前安息香曾在路易十四的宫廷中飘荡。在马达加斯加，每一笔交易都是用现金进行的，一队搬运工抬着装有50万美元的货盘去换取香草豆。委内瑞拉的唐卡豆就像天气一样变化无常，可能几年都不开花，但却受到香水商的推崇。罗克带我们到的每一个地方，他富有感染力的好奇心和亲和力都照亮了一个沉浸式的未知世界。

《寻找香水》一书充满娱乐性，令人大开眼界，并配有精美的黑白插图，是对那些助长我们的怀旧情绪和充斥我们的幻想的气味的一次不可抗拒的探索。

斯蒂芬妮-斯米从法语翻译而来。

In this intoxicating concoction of history, travelogue, and memoir, one of the perfume industry's leading scouts of natural ingredients tells the story of the precious ingredients needed to make our favorite fragrances.

Do you know how many flowers it takes to produce a kilo of rose oil? One million roses, each handpicked. When it comes to nature, Dominique Roques is a unique authority. He has spent the last thirty years working closely with local communities across the globe to establish a sustainable supply of natural ingredients crucial to perfume making.

From resin cultivated by traditional methods in El Salvador to rose oil distilleries in India as old as the Taj Mahal, his network reveals an elusive trade built on the fault lines of tradition and modernity. With In Search of Perfumes, Roques tells the story of seventeen of the industry's most precious ingredients-where they come from, their cultural and historic significance, and why we love them--from Indonesian patchouli to the "Damask rose," interweaving his own recollections and reflections on his life and work.

From Andalusia to Somaliland, Roques takes us on an exclusive tour of a vast but delicate ecosystem wholly sustained by the artisans who are its caretakers. Isolated and rural, the tropical jungles of northern Laos remain to this day the only source of benzoin that centuries earlier wafted through the air of Louis XIV's court. In Madagascar, where every transaction is made in cash, a caravan of porters carry pallets bearing $500,000 dollars to exchange for vanilla beans. The Venezuelan tonka bean, as fickle as the weather, may refuse to flower for years but is so esteemed by perfumers that patience becomes its truest virtue. Everywhere Roques takes us, his infectious curiosity and amiability illuminate an immersive world of the uncharted.

Entertaining and eye-opening, decorated with beautiful black-and-white illustrations, In Search of Perfumes is an irresistible exploration of the smells that fuel our nostalgia and suffuse our fantasies.

Translated from the French by Stephanie Smee

作者简介

多米尼克-罗克1948年生于摩洛哥的卡萨布兰卡，是一名编辑。若干年后，在比利时，她有两个儿子，他们与她一样喜欢幽默的漫画。她的长子亚历克西斯-多马尔总是能画出精彩生动的人物。

Scriptwriter. Dominique Roques was born in 1948 in Casablanca, Morocco. Some years later, in Belgium, she had two sons who shared her taste in humorous comics. Her eldest son, Alexis Dormal, was always able to draw wonderfully lively characters.