The history of aromas. Traveling flowers from distant countries

Imagine a bouquet of your favorite flowers. What are they? Bright tulips? Velvet roses? Or maybe gentle cloves? Once all these flowers came to us from distant countries, charming travelers, researchers and missionaries with their aroma and bright petals.
Do you know that, having arrived in Holland, tulips drove the whole country crazy, untied their wallets and arranged a real "fever"? Who is the "nose" and how does he come up with new perfumes? How to get the root of the mandrahore, which, according to legend, shouts piercingly, stunning everyone around when they dig it up?
Traveling with flowers, you anchor in unknown ports to meet with other worlds - either hostile, then friendly, get acquainted with unknown peoples, other cultures, get rid of prejudices.
hit the road from Constantinople to Goa, from the cold lands of Lapland to the tropical Brazilian forests following travelers and discoverers who found new types of flowers and plants, investigated their medicinal properties and, of course, aromas!
This book, written by the author of the "delicious story" Dimiti Delma - a look at the history of the world through the petals of the flower, such a delicate and ephemeral particle, seemingly tiny and insignificant