The Book Of Lost Fragrances: A Novel Of Suspense - Plot & Excerpts
But today she felt as restless as her little sister, who was playing with the hem of her dress even though their mother had twice pulled the child’s hands away. The site of the church had been a temple to the Egyptian goddess Isis hundreds of years earlier, and that was one of the reasons she looked forward to coming here. Not because she felt closer to God here, but to Giles. And when the priest swung the shining silver censer and she breathed in the dense smell of the incense, she felt her lover’s presence even more palpably. Giles L’Etoile had left for Egypt a year ago. His father and brothers had been excited about the youngest son exploring ancient perfuming methods and materials perhaps unknown to them. Egypt’s history was full of perfume secrets: the timeless methods of extracting the essences of scent from flowers and woods; the processes of expression, enfleurage, maceration and stream distillation from the land that had invented many of them. If Egyptian processes and techniques were superior, then L’Etoile Parfums would have an edge over the competition.
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