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The scentual garden : exploring the world of botanical fragrance / Ken Druse ; botanical photographs by Ellen Hoverkamp ; garden photohgraphs by Ken Druse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Druse, Kenneth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fragrant gardens.
- Aromatic plants.
- Genre:
- Pictoral works.
- Pictorial works.
- Informational works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (555 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Abrams Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "In The Scentual Garden, Ken Druse offers a complete and wholly original survey of fragrant plants for gardeners. He points out that we have a rich vocabulary for describing the forms and colors of plants but are impoverished when it comes to smell. Working with perfumers' classifications, Druse developed twelve master scent categories that range from floral and fruity to balsamic and medicinal. Druse also explains how and why plants produce fragrances, how our sense of smell works, how perfumers capture floral scents, how plants "communicate" with each other, and even how to smell plants. He also offers suggestions for bringing fragrance into gardens, from making paths that offer a sequence of sensory experiences to night gardens that come alive with fragrance."-- book jacket
- Contents:
- The invisible garden
- Why plants smell / how we smell
- Capturing scent
- An encyclopedia of fragrant plants
- Scent in the landscape.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781683356721
- 1683356721
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