Spirit Of Botany: Aromatic Recipes And Rituals

The Spirit of Botany: Aromatic Recipes and Rituals, by Jill McKeever 

Perfume is usually treated as an accessory. Jill McKeever treats it like a practice — this book is a visually entrancing, esoteric guide to connecting with plants through the senses, built out of her personal rituals and creative methods for using aromatic botanicals in incense, perfume, tisanes, ritual baths, and more. She's not theorizing from the sidelines either — she founded the indie perfume brand For Strange Women and spent over a decade turning her nose into an actual method, developing a synesthetic approach that treats scent almost like color or sound.

Alongside dozens of recipes, McKeever weaves in reflections on sustainability, synesthesia, and creativity, plus a real dive into aromatherapy's ties to astrology, moon work, and dream practice — genuinely appropriate for anyone from total beginners to career alchemists. With inspiring photography and a mysterious aesthetic throughout, it's less "candle DIY book" and more an invitation into the countless biological, emotional, energetic, and spiritual layers scent can actually hold.

Details:

• 160 pages, hardcover, full-color
• Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, October 2020