In the Alchemist’s Den
Mike Jay, 27 July 2023
Elixir: A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life
by Theresa Levitt.
Basic, 314 pp., £20, April,978 1 3998 0324 3 Show More
by Theresa Levitt.
Basic, 314 pp., £20, April,
“... principle, yet to be discovered, that determined how these basic elements combined. In Elixir, Theresa Levitt tells the entwined stories of the Laugier family and the development of perfume in the first decades of what in the early 19th century would come to be called ‘organic chemistry’. The long tradition of isolating plant essences, she ... ”