Book Reviews
This miscellany represents some impressions and facts about books of direct or
peripheral interest to the world of aromatic plants and the uses, industries,
professions, cults, religions, and folk-lore which surround them. This is a list
which is consecutively added to, so come back and visit from time to time…..
Book 1 A History of Herbal Plants By Richard Le Strange
Book 2 Against Nature By J. K. Huysmans
Book 3 Potpourris and Other Fragrant Delights By Jacqueline Heriteau
Book 4 Scent (The Mysterious and Essential Powers of Smell) By Annick Le Guerer
Book 5 A Druids Herbal (for the Sacred Earth year) By Ellen Evert Hopman
Book 6 Flowering Plants – Magic in Bloom Encyclopaedia of Psychoactive
Drugs By P. Mick Richardson
Book 7 An Ancient Egyptian Herbal By Lise Manniche
Book 8 History of Perfume By Frances Kennett
Book 9 Trees for Flower and Fragrance By Stirling Macoboy
Book 10 The scent of Orchids: Olfactory and Chemical Investigations By
Roman Kaiser
Book 11 Plant Myths and Traditions in India By Shakti M. Gupta
Book 12 Indian Essential Oils By S.S. Deshpande
Book 13 Ocean of Sound (Aether Talk, Ambient and Imaginary Worlds) By
David Toop
Book 14 Essence of Beauty – a History of Perfume & Cosmetics By Aytour
Ellis
Book 15 Perfumery With Herbs By Ivan Day
Book 16 The Antiques of Perfume By Leslie G. Matthews
Book 17 A Dictionary of Plant Lore By Roy Vickery
Book 18 The Story of Lavender By Sally Festing
Book 19 Herbal Indian Perfumes and Cosmetics By Vaidya Asha Ram
Book 20 Sacred Luxuries: Fragrance, Aromatherapy & Cosmetics in Ancient
Egypt By Lisa Manniche with photographs by Werner Forman
Book 21 The Book of Incense – Enjoying the Traditional Art of Japanese
Scents By Kiyoko Morita
Book 22 The Emporer of Scent – A story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last
Mystery of the Senses By Chandler Burr
Book 23 Backhousia citriodora F. Muell Lemon Scented Myrtle -
Biology, Cultivation & Exploitation By Dennis Archer pub.
Book 24 Herbal Antibiotics – Natural Alternatives for Treating
Drug-Resistant Bacteria By Stephen Harold Buhner (1999)
Book 25 The Healing Trail: Essential Oils of Madagascar By Georges M. Halpern & Peter Weverka
Book 26 Medicinal Flowers – Medicinal Flowers of India and Adjacent
Regions By Pandey G.
Book 27 L’Ylang ylang: Un Parfum Subtil By Christian Brulé & William
Pécout
Book 28 Essential Chemistry for Safe Aromatherapy By Sue Clarke
Book 29 The Science and Art of Perfumery By Edward Sagarin
Book 30 Odour Preferences By R.W. Moncrieff
Book 31 Essential Oils in Colour – Caddy Classic Profiles By Rosemary
Caddy
Book 32 Tree Medicine By Peter Conway
Book 33 Analysis of Essential Oils by Gas Chromatography & Mass Spectrometry By Yoshiro Masada (1976)
Book 34 La Livre du Parfumeur (Illustrations by Henry de Renaucourt). By Félix Cola (1931)
Book 35 Lavender: the Grower’s Guide. Garden Art Press. By Virginia McNaughton (2000)