Living Perfume
The Natural Alchemy of Mandy Aftel
Henri Bendel
712 5th Avenue at 56th Street
Third Floor
New York, NY
Chromolithograph print of sperm whale, 1880. Ambergris, one of the most beautiful perfume ingredients, is produced in the digestive system of the sperm whale
Press Releases
- About the Living Perfume exhibit at Henri Bendel
- Design of the exhibit by Brandimage — Desgrippes & Laga
- Donovan contributes song to Living Perfume exhibit
- A Conversation with Mandy Aftel and Rochelle Bloom, President of the Fragrance Foundation
- About the Event Organizer, Sensory Runway
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All images © 2009 Collection of Mandy Aftel
A distilling apparatus from The Factories of Schimmel & Co., Leipzig-Prag and Fritzsche Brothers, 1894
Map of the world by Lucien Boucher from The Antoine Chiris Establishments Throughout the World, 1931
Old label for cologne Supérieure
Engraving of a musk deer which produces musk, an essence for perfumery
Patchouly from Lubin
Hand-tinted perfume postcard, “Sorting Tuberose Flowers,” Bruno Court Perfumes, Grasse, France
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