22 watercolor paintings; color illus. & photos throughout.
The Perfumed Garden
The Scented Garden: Anthropology of the Sex Life in the Levant
Highlighting more than one thousand flowers and plants, this practical gardening guide explains how to develop an aromatic landscape and provides classic recipes for preserving the garden's perfumes in potpourri,...
How to select fragrant plants and combine scents.
The plant most associated with botanical fragrance is, arguably, the rose. Every rose flower has its own special scent (and there are thousands). Oversimplifying, I can say there are two kinds of rose fragrances: I call one old rose and ...
From 16th-century Arabia, The Perfumed Garden - for the Repose of the Mind is a classic work of Arab erotica offering a uniquely entertaining collection of tales filled with frank and sound advice on sexual relations, accompanied by rare ...
These are just two of the 20 simple, sweet-smelling projects offered by garden expert Richard Bird in "The Scented Garden".
The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz
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Scented Garden