Crabtree & Evelyn Fragrant Herbal: Enhancing Your Life with Aromatic Herbs and Essential Oils

by Marie-Pierre Moine and Lesley Bremness

From one of the most popular retail stores for scented home and beauty products comes a comprehensive guide to growing and using herbs to enhance and influence atmosphere and mood. Includes an A-to-Z... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821224719
• ISBN13: 9780821224717
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.6" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up

Customer Reviews

A Must Have ...

Out of my entire collection of herb books, I would recommend THIS book to anyone who has the slightest interest in herbs, flowers, gardening, oils, and/or cooking. This book provides absolutely gorgeous pictures, an abundant variety of ideas/gifts, yummy and unique recipes, excellent herbal descriptions, and an appealing selection of mixtures. What a refreshing difference in my entire book collection! It would make an excellent gift for that "hard to buy for" person; great for a thank-you, love gesture, birthday, or any occasion. I have opened it numerous times, with always a sense of relaxation and happiness. I love it today as much as the day I opened it for the first time. My only regret: that there isn't a volume 2 but I guess you can't improve on what's already great. Thank you.

SHEER BEAUTY

This is an absolutely gorgeous book, loaded with pictures that make me want to quit my job and get a greenhouse in the country and grow beautiful herbs and flowers. This book covers a wide range of topics for each aromatic group, ranging from perfumes, to garden designs, to recipes. It is practical as well as it is beautiful. This is one of my favorite garden/herb picture books, in fact it is one of my favorite picture books, period.

Comprehensive & powerful,evoking emotion,memory,inspiration.

The English perfumier Crabtree & Evelyn "nose" (knows) about the power of scent. Our reactions to a scent-experience can be powerful; This became apparent one day while sticking my nose into a fully-blown pink cabbage rose. The neurons that sense smell cut straight to the brain, immediately evoking thoughts and feelings related to past experiences. The scent of grandma's lilac soap may stir joy-filled memories experienced during a visit fifteen years ago. Crabtree & Evelyn's Fragrant Herbal is as enjoyable and informative as it is practical. There are recipes for making fragrant soaps and scented products containing essential oils and scented herbs grown in one's own garden. For those who are new to the growing of herbs for personal use, there is an A-Z section on growing and use of herbs. The photographs are of a high quality and display everything from beautifully crafted soaps and bath products to scenes of scented gardens abundant with roses and lavender. The artistic and writing style of this work is quite English, captivating those qualities of Britain found endearing by romantically-minded Americans. A well-done compilation that appeals as much to the heart of a gardener as to the mind seeking everyday uses for the season's bounty, Crabtree & Evelyn's Fragrant Herbal is a learning opportunity for both the seasoned gardener and the amateur maker of scented home and bath items. This comprehensive, powerful work is a tool for improving the quality of life through the use of scent, whether it be in the garden, bath or home.