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Perfume
:''For the book "Perfume" by Patrick Süskind, see Perfume (book).''
Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and aroma compounds, a fixative, and alcohol used to give parts of the human body and sometimes other objects a long-lasting and pleasant smell.
The essential oils are obtained by distillation of flowers, plants, and grasses, such as orange blossom and roses. Extraction by enfleurage is used if distillation is not possible, for example in the case of Jasmin Absolute. Enfleurage is basically extraction by absorption of aroma materials into wax and then extracting the odorous oil with alcohol. Aromatic chemicals are also used. Fixatives, which bind the various fragrances together, include balsams, ambergris, and secretions from the scent glands of civets and musk deer (undiluted these have unpleasant smells but in alcoholic solution they act as preserving agents). The amount of alcohol added depends on whether perfumes, Eaux de toilette, or Eaux de Cologne are required. The mixture is normally aged for one year.
Perfumes types and properties
As the percentage of aromatic compounds decreases, the intensity and longevity of the scent decreases, also.
Perfume extract: 20%-40% aromatic compounds
Eau de parfum: 10-20% aromatic compounds
Eau de toilette: 5-10% aromatic compounds
Eau de cologne: 2-3% aromatic compounds
A mixture of alcohol and water are used as the solvent for the aromatics. On application, body heat causes the solvent to evaporate quickly, leaving the fragrance to evaporate gradually over several hours. The rate of evaporation(vapor pressure) and the odor strength of the compound partly determines the tenaciousness of the compound and determines it perfume note classification.
Top notes: Scents that are perceived a few minutes after the application of a perfume. Top notes create the scents that forms a person's initial impression of a perfume. Because of this, they are very important in
The Perfumed Garden
''The Perfumed Garden'' by Sheikh Nefzaoui is a sex manual and work of erotic literature. The full title of the book is ''The Perfumed Garden for the Soul's Recreation'' (''Er Roud el Âater p'nezaha el Khater'').
The name of the Sheikh has become known to posterity as the author of this work, which is the only one attributed to him.
The book was translated into English in 1886 by Sir Richard Burton.
According to Burton, from the historical notice contained in the first leaves of the manuscript, and notwithstanding the apparent error respecting the name of the Bey who was reigning in Tunis, it may be presumed that this work was written in the beginning of the sixteenth century, about the year 925 of the Hegira.
As regards the birthplace of the author, it can be deduced from his name, considering the Arab naming practice of joining the name of their birth-place to their own, that he was born at Nefzaoua, a town situated in the district of that name on the shore of the lake Sebkha Melrir, in the south of the kingdom of Tunis.
The Sheikh himself records that he lived in Tunis, and it is most probable the book was written in that city. According to tradition, a particular motive induced him to undertake a work entirely at variance with his simple tastes and retired habits.
Burton mentions that he considers that ''The Perfumed Garden'' can be compared with the works of Aretin and Rabelais, of the book ''Conjugal Love''. But what he believes makes the ''Perfumed Garden'' unique as a book of its kind is "the seriousness with which the most lascivious and obscene matters are presented".
Burton points out that not all of the ideas in the ''Perfumed Garden'' are original. For instance, all the record of Moçama and of Chedja is taken from the work of Mohammed ben Djerir el Taberi; the description of the different positions for coition, as well as the movements applicable to them, are borrowed from Indian works; finally, the book ''Birds and Flowers'' by Azeddine
The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden's translator, Richard Burton, wrote the following in his preface to his 1886 translation of the ''Perfumed Garden''. Note: the text below is coloured by Burton's nineteenth century European point of view. Please summarise and Wikify this information and add it to the article before deleting it here.
The name of the Sheikh has become known to posterity as the author of this work, which is the only one attributed to him.
In spite of the subject-matter of the book, and the manifold errors found in it and caused by the negligence and ignorance of the copyists, it is manifest that this treatise comes from the pen of a man of great erudition, who had a better knowledge in general of literature and medicine than is commonly found with Arabs.
According to the historical notice contained in the first leaves of the manuscript, and notwithstanding the apparent error respecting the name of the Bey who was reigning in Tunis, it may be presumed that this work was written in the beginning of the sixteenth century, about the year 925 of the Hegira.
As regards the birthplace of the author, it may be taken for granted, considering that the Arabs habitually joined the name of their birth-place to their own, that he was born at Nefzaoua, a town situated in the district of that name on the shore of the lake Sebkha Melrir, in the south of the kingdom of Tunis.
The Sheikh himself records that he lived in Tunis, and it is most probable the book was written in that city. According to tradition, a particular motive induced him to undertake a work entirely at variance with his simple tastes and retired habits.
His knowledge of law and literature, as well as of medicine, having been reported to the Bey of Tunis, this ruler wished to invest him with the office of Cadi, although he was unwilling to occupy himself with public functions.
As he, however, desired not to give the Bey cause for offence, whereby he might have incurred danger, he merely
Perfume (Book)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985) is a novel by Patrick Süskind.
The story is set in 18th Century France. It relates the fascinating and horrifying tale of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a person as gifted as he was abominable. Grenouille was born without a smell of his own but endowed with an incomparable sense of smell. He apprentices himself to a perfumer and becomes obsessed with procuring the perfect scent that will make him fully human. To achieve this, he murders 25 girls and takes their smell. It is a highly sophisticated horror tale - superbly researched and written.
A film adaptation of the book is currently in production.
The rock band Nirvana recorded a song based on the novel, called "Scentless Apprentice." The song "Du Riechst So Gut" (You Smell So Good) by the German band Rammstein also seems to be based on this book.
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Jitterbug Perfume
Jitterbug Perfume is Tom Robbins' second novel, published in 1984. Themes include eternal life and the sense of smell. Beets and the god Pan figure prominently. The novel is set in 8th century Bohemia, where King Alobar's quest for everlasting life begins, to India where he meets Kudra. Having learned various mystical secrets, the two lovers travel the world for centuries visiting Paris, New Orleans and Seattle, among others. Other strands of the narrative take place in the present day, and concern other quests, including another for eternal life and one for the perfect perfume.
Major characters:
Alobar, a king from some small country in Bohemia. He inadvertently learns the secrets of immortality, which he teaches to
Kudra, a woman he meets while wandering east to India. They become lovers, but are accidentally separated when Kudra enters a different astral plane.
Pan (the god)
Priscilla, the genius waitress, who is trying to synthesize a perfume, the dregs of which she has discovered in a bottle.
Mme. Duvalier, perfume manufacturist in New Orleans and former boss of Priscilla.
V'lu Jackson, assistant of Mme. Duvalier, keen on Priscilla's perfume bottle.
Marcel LeFevre, excentric, visionaire and genius of the LeFevre perfume company in Paris. Has an absolute sense of smell and quests for eternal life.
Perfume River
The Perfume River (in Vietnamese is Sông Hương or Hương Giang) is a river crossing Hue City, in the Central Viet Nam Province of Thua Thien-Hue (Thừa Thiên Huế).
The Perfume River have two sources. They come from the Truong Son range: the Ta Trach (Left Tributary) from Truong Dong mounts toward north-west through 55 impressive waterfalls, and then slowly to Bang Lang fork; the shorter Huu Trach (Right Tributary) flowing through 14 dangerous waterfalls and Tuan ferry landing to Bang Lang fork where the two tributaries join to form the poetic Perfume river.
From Bang Lang to Thuan An estuary, the Perfume river is 30 km long (The river level is not much above that of the sea) so that the river runs very slowly.
The colour of the Perfume river is darker when it winds along the foot of Ngoc Tran mount - the Jade Cup Temple - where there is a very deep abyss.
The Perfume River is beautiful sight from its source, and winds among mountains, forest trees, plants, etc. bringing with it fragrances of tropical flora. The river runs slowly through the verdant and shady villages of Kim Long, Nguyet Bieu, Vy Da, Dong Ba, Gia Hoi, Dinh market, Nam Pho, Bao Vinh, mingling with the odours of flowers of Hue... The river with the shimmer blue limpid colour is like a pearl in the sun. Hue boats rowing up and down with remote, meditative and deep folk melodies at deep night. It is an eternal pleasure for many generations of tourists who go boating to behold the poetic landscape, to listen to the folk melodies of Hue in tranquil nights.
The views on both sides of the river with the citadel, town, gardens, pagodas, towers and temples, etc. and their reflections in the waters make the already loveable river even more poetic and musical. Many people think that Hue city has peaceful, gentle and tranquil landscapes mostly thanks to the Perfume river. This river brings to the city a meditative poetic characteristics and the harmonious limpidity exhaling from
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