Love Potions & Charms: 50 Ways to Seduce, Bewitch, and Cherish Your Lover (Barron's Educational Series) [Hardcover]

Francis Melville (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2000 | Series: Barron's Educational Series

If love really makes the world go 'round, here's a book that will heighten the spin. It's all about enticing a lover, with more than 50 recipes for perfumes, love charms, aphrodisiacs, and lovers' magic spells. Author and herbal expert Francis Melville explains how to attract and hold a lover by using herbs, as well as commonly available foods, flowers, spices, and other ingredients. Everything discussed in these pages is as pure and as natural as sex appeal itself. For instance, few aphrodisiacs are more wholesome, or more effective, than well prepared fish entrees, oysters on the half-shell--or for very special occasions, caviar. This beautifully illustrated book's highlights include: recipes for the foods of love; directions for making flower garlands and other delightful accessories to enhance the scene of love; rituals passed down through the generations to attract a lover, including instructions for using the world's most alluring scents; ways to make magic charms that will entice a chosen lover . . . and more. Beautiful full-color illustrations abound throughout this book, making it a delight to the eye as well as the imagination. Here are ideas, advice, and directions meant for everyone who will ever fall in love.

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About the Author

Francis Melville has written for a variety of publications, including The Times of London, as well as for a TV documentary. He has traveled extensively in northern Mexico, studying herbalism, and now lives in Devon, England, where he runs a charitable foundation dedicated to research in spagyrics--the study of alchemical medicine.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764153641
• ISBN-13: 978-0764153648
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,424,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Serious potions and healing lotions!, January 28, 2002

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Mo Johnson (Memphis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Potions & Charms: 50 Ways to Seduce, Bewitch, and Cherish Your Lover (Barron's Educational Series) (Hardcover)

The reviewer who gave this book 2 stars complained that it had taught him nothing new. So he already had the ancient Chinese recipe for Horny Goatweed wine? I was greatly impressed at the wealth of unusual information available in this book, particularly with regard to traditional aphrodisiacs (the ones that haven't been made illegal at least), their preparation and uses. It even has a useful list of suppliers in the back. I found the book witty, knowing, touching and inspiring. I even discovered a herbal cure for dry and itchy skin that really worked! I plan to roadtest some of the most intriguing love philters as soon as I have found a worthy lovemate - which, with the help of this book, I suspect won't be too long.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Love Potions and Charms! I don't think so!, March 26, 2001

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"anna_in_limbo" (Ames, IA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Potions & Charms: 50 Ways to Seduce, Bewitch, and Cherish Your Lover (Barron's Educational Series) (Hardcover)

Don't waste you money. I thought I could become a more powerful seducer. But I did not learn anything new! We ALL know that chocolate and alchol are aphrodisiacs. I gave this book a 2 because the artwork and layout saved it! Beautiful pictures of herbs, and things, but if you want to learn to seduce, look some place else.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "LOVE Potions and Charms" is Grand!!!, March 12, 2002

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"medaiya" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Potions & Charms: 50 Ways to Seduce, Bewitch, and Cherish Your Lover (Barron's Educational Series) (Hardcover)

I bought this book a few months ago and have since used quite a few of the spells and recipes in there. I especially love the Love Salad recipe. I make this salad and enjoy it's potency often. I have had several of my friends and coworkers comment on the aroma of it and asking me what it is whenever I eat it and they have all agreed that it is one of the best smelling (and the ones who have tried it themselves) and tasting salads they have ever tried. I had a friend of mine look through it themselves and use the Bed of Roses spell in there for her and her spouse and it completely helped to bring them closer together. He had not ever really opened up to her much prior and after she did it, he starting opening up to her more and they have become closer since. I myself have made the Chypre perfumed oil in there and have enjoyed it's sensual scent, I've even had others comment on it and they love it when I tell them where I got it from. I continue to try many of the other spells and recipes in this book and love every moment of putting my energy in to doing so. I really recomend this book for anyone looking for one that gives you a variety of "Love" ideas to try out or work on. It's one of the best books for this that I have ever found!!! =)