![]() ![]() Her first book on perfume, Essence & Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume, is accepted as a seminal text, covering the basics (base notes, heart notes, and head notes, and the tools of the trade), and also addressing topics such as “perfume and the soul.” She collaborated on a cookbook with celebrated Bay Area chef Daniel Patterson, which explores the connections between food and fragrance-and she has a new book out in the fall of 2014. ![]() Mostly self-taught, she has become a guru in the field. The shelves are lined with books and glass vials and bottles. Not surprisingly, layers of fragrance pervade the air (“I just finished up a workshop,” she says). Her home and studio, in a classic Berkeley brown shingle house, is classroom, laboratory, library, and museum. Meeting natural perfumer and The Possible artist Mandy Aftel in her element, you’re convinced she was born to work with scent. ![]()
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