Creating Fairy Garden Fragrances (Storey's Spirit of Aromatherapy) [Hardcover]

Linda Gannon (Author), Dagmar Fehlau (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Storey's Spirit of Aromatherapy | Publication Date: January 10, 1998

Recipes for scented, exotic potpourri blends. Fairy and herbal lore, poetry, seasonal stories, and gift ideas.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Mix Up Some Magic with Herbs, Fruits, Flowers & Essential Oils

Stir your imagination and summon enchanted creatures by bringing the fragrances of the garden into your home. Creating Fairy Garden Fragrances will help you to fully embrace and celebrate the changing seasons with recipes for bewitching blends of dried flowers, herbs, and fruits, including:

-- Dance of the Morning Nymphs

-- Pan's Song

-- Midsummer Night's Dream

-- Enchanted Forest

-- All Hallow's Eve

-- Christmas Magik

"You can hear the Fairies giggle while Faerie Queen Linda gannon tells all her secret recipes to bring the enchanted fragrant beauty and fairy-dusted joy of a garden into your home...it's magical."

-- Bertha Reppert, Author, Herbalist Extraordinaire,

and Founder of Rosemary House in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

About the Author

Since 1980, author Linda Gannon has owned and operated The Magick Garden, a mail order business in McFarland, Wisconsin, where she lives with her husband, Tom, and her children, Brittany, Kristin, Molly, and Austin. She conducts workshops and lectures on making potpourris and other herb-related topics.

Dagmar Fehlau is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in Bodycare Just for Men, Making Bentwood Trellises, Arbors, Gates and Fences and Making Herbal Dream Pillows. Dagmar attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (January 10, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580170765
• ISBN-13: 978-1580170765
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #370,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most enchanting and joyful book you may ever read!, November 10, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Creating Fairy Garden Fragrances (Storey's Spirit of Aromatherapy) (Hardcover)

Linda Gannon's "Creating Fairy Garden Fragrances" takes you on a mystical and highly creative journey in which you not only learn about concocting some very enticing aromas, but you also are gifted with her enchanting presentation on the mystery and history of herbal/flower folklore. For those of us who love flowers and herbs, and dabs of magic, this is one extraordinary book! I am planning to buy a number of copies for Christmas presents -- and along with the book I am going to also give a bag of homemade potpourri using one (or many!) of Linda's recipes for magical scents! In this world of zany schedules, high technology, electronic wizardry and impersonalization, this book brings us back to something warm, cozy and just darn wonderful. My congratulations to Linda, the Fairy Queen on this lovely, colorful and beautifully- illustrated book. She has surely touched us all with her sincere magic in "Creating Fairy Garden Fragrances!"

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Potpourris and faerie lore blended with a magical touch, October 18, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Creating Fairy Garden Fragrances (Storey's Spirit of Aromatherapy) (Hardcover)

This is a marvelous, magical book filled with both practical information and faerie lore. The stories and legends are charming and the potpourris enchanting. Who could possibly resist wanting to create such items as "Enchanted Forest" and "Christmas Magick"? Each recipe includes finishing touches and novel methods of display. I think Ms. Gannon must truly be the Faerie Queen.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really fun!, November 29, 2003

By 

merrymousies (Waterford, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creating Fairy Garden Fragrances (Storey's Spirit of Aromatherapy) (Hardcover)

This is such a fun book - the artwork that decorates every page is terrific, the writing style is fun, and while I've only played with a few recipes so far - I can definitely say so far so good! The book opens with an intro to faeries, the flowers of faeries, and essential oils. The it gets to drying flowers/herbs (I actually buy mine but plan to expand the gardens next spring so I might be doing some rdying next summer). There's general info on making potpourri in here like using fixatives to keep the scents etc. Then there's a great one-pager that lists the different plants and the type of scent they have so you can be creative if you want too. The recipes comprise the rest of the book and they have great names like "christmas magic", "dance of the morning nymphs" etc. On the facing page to each recipe is a little text of faerie lore pertaining to different plants that were used in the recipe. The recipes are broken out by season so as you welcome the changes of the year you can make a corresponding potpourri. The results are pretty and smell nice too.