Scented Gifts: From Sachets to Soap, from Gingerbread to Potpourri [Paperback]

Laura Dover Doran (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1999

This volume offers 75 quick, easy and inexpensive gifts to make. Projects are easy to follow and the fragrances come from herbs and flowers, essential oils, evergreens, fruit peels, and spices. Tips are also included on presentation.

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The sense of smell is strongly linked to memory; the whiff of a familiar but forgotten fragrance can unleash a flood of recollections. Yet fragrance is often overlooked in gift giving, except for the obvious gift of perfume. To celebrate the importance of olfactory delights, Scented Gifts offers more than 70 lovely projects to craft for family and friends. From the garden come potpourri, pomanders, and various dried arrangements, plus advice on planting a fragrant garden and a guide to common fragrant plants and spices. The kitchen yields herbal oils and vinegars, jellies, teas, cakes, and cookies. Those who enjoy sewing can try the scented cushions, sachets, spice-filled hot pad, or stress-relieving eye pillow. Pamper someone with fragrant gifts for the bath: oils, salts, soaps, and powders. Or try a scented journal or picture frame. Each project is fully explained and shown in color, and there are nice ideas for pretty presentations to make your handmade creations look even more special. --Amy Handy --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Lark Books (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579901425
• ISBN-13: 978-1579901424
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,146,718 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A great book to borrow, June 30, 2000

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Ellen "Melon Bell" (South Bend, IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scented Gifts: From Sachets to Soap, from Gingerbread to Potpourri (Paperback)

The first chapter, 'Gifts from the Garden' left me with no desire to try any of the techniques given. The photos of the finished products were large and beautiful, but there were no step-by-step photos - only the finished product. The section on fragrant plants and spices was helpful however, as it also told what each scent symbolized and what effects it has on an individual. The second chapter, 'Gifts that Pamper' I enjoyed much better. It gave recipes for bottled oils, soaps, body powders, rosewater, foot balm and lip balm. 'Gifts from the Kitchen' was also informative with recipes for breads and jellys as well as cooking oils and teas. The chapter 'Sewn Gifts' was fun to look at but I don't sew, so... The final chapter, 'More Great Gifts' was also fun to look at and it gave good ideas for odds-n-end gifts like sachets and scented frames. All in all, it would be a great book to borrow, I think. You can easily look at the photos of the finished products and go create your own, individualized gifts.