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In 2022 the IAO awarded her the Septimus Piesse Visionary Award for her lifetime achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eAftel is the author of nine books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Flavor: Practices and Principles for Creating Delicious Food \u003c\/em\u003e(Riverhead Books, 2017, with two-Michelin-star chef Daniel Patterson), \u003cem\u003eFragrant: The Secret Life of Scent \u003c\/em\u003e(Riverhead Books, 2014, Perfume Plume award for writing), \u003cem\u003eEssence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume \u003c\/em\u003e(FSG, 2001, fourteen foreign editions, Richard B. Solomon Award from the Sense of Smell Institute), \u003cem\u003eScents and Sensibilities: Creating Solid Perfumes for Well-Being \u003c\/em\u003e(Gibbs Smith, 2005), and \u003cem\u003eAroma: The Magic of Essential Oils in Food and Fragrance \u003c\/em\u003e(Artisan Books, 2004, with Daniel Patterson).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn 2017, she created the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents in Berkeley, California—the only museum in the world dedicated to the history and experience of natural fragrance, showcasing her collection of one-of-a-kind-antique artifacts. 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It's a crucial societal touchpoint and a huge factor in the ongoing evolution of independent perfumery. In short, it's a cultural gem.\" - Saskia Wilson Brown, director and founder of The Institute for Art and Olfaction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFor centuries, people have taken an instinctive pleasure in rubbing scents into their skin and using them to pray, to heal, and to make love. Yet in many ways perfumery, with its lush history and creative and sensual possibilities, is a lost art. No one knows this better than artisan natural perfumer Mandy Aftel, who has spent nearly thirty years immersed in the world of scent, culling the most beautiful natural essences from all over the world and using them to create exquisite fragrances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eEssence and Alchemy, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich has been published in fourteen foreign editions, Aftel teaches the art of making natural perfumes, complete with recipes. 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Eschewing the synthetic molecules that dominate commercial perfumes, Aftel creates her complex and subtle fragrances using only natural essences. For her, each of these essences is a gateway to a lost world of scent, stretching back to the beginnings of human civilization and intertwined with the history of medicine, cuisine, adornment, sexuality, and spirituality. In 2017, Aftel opened a one-room museum—the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents—in her backyard in Berkeley, California, to help a modern audience rediscover the enchantment of this lost world. Her museum has attracted thousands of enthusiastic visitors and has been featured in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGoop\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and numerous other media outlets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003eNow Aftel has created this beautiful book, illustrated with treasures from her museum™s collection, so that readers at home can immerse themselves in the world of scent. She guides us through the different families of botanical fragrances (including flowers, herbs, and resins), depicting each plant with a hand-colored antique woodcut and revealing its olfactory notes and lore. 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