--- product_id: 122490206 title: "Working the Bench II" brand: "justine m crane" price: "AED 527" currency: AED in_stock: false reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/122490206-working-the-bench-ii store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # Working the Bench II **Brand:** justine m crane **Price:** AED 527 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Working the Bench II by justine m crane - **How much does it cost?** AED 527 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/122490206-working-the-bench-ii) ## Best For - justine m crane enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted justine m crane brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Working the Bench II - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/412ampiUAyL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Create something that is more than just a simple blend of aromatics! *by P***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 8, 2017* I own Justine Cranes first book, Working The Bench 1 , which is a great starting point for a natural perfumer. I wanted a book more in-depth and this book is it! It's extremely thorough and very enjoyable to read. It's astonishing how much information is packed into this book. While reading the book I felt as though I was her apprentice, being divulged secrets that are only learned through experience. This book is very hands on. Be prepared to get right into the art of creating natural perfumes! I really love that she's included a kyphi recipe! She also explores creating your own soap, incense, and candles. The descriptions and information regarding raw materials is excellent, and I find the plethora of information on natural isolates is a great reference. She explains top notes, middle notes, base notes, bridge notes, modifiers, fixatives, fragrance families, and everything inbetween! The part of the book I have found most valuable is evaluations and dilutions. The author uses the French method for creating natural perfumes, which is how I've been creating perfumes since I started, so I was very happy to learn the best way to perform trials, the best dilutions for materials, etc. She even includes her own notes in parts of the text. I really love making my own tinctures, enfleurages, and distilling herbs, plants, trees, flowers and resins. I have found it essential for learning the aroma profiles of natural ingredients and for creating a natural perfume that is unique and all my own. I especially love resins and trying to capture the scent of the many fragrant flowers in my garden. The information in this book regarding tincture, enfleurage, and other extraction techniques, is a perfect starting point for anyone that wants to make their own aromatics, I wish I'd had the information when I began creating my own aromatics. I've been using aromatics for a long time, but in the last couple years have really been enthralled with creating natural perfumes. This book has been very helpful in guiding me to create something that is more than a simple blend of aromatics! I recommend Working the Bench 2 to anyone interested in making their own natural perfumes! ### ⭐⭐⭐ Some good info contained in a very frustrating “package” *by M***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2018* This book could benefit greatly from a professional editing treatment. The information contained in the book is valuable (some of it anyway), but discerning the valuable out of the stream-of-consciousness writing style (WORDSWORDSWORDS -!useful nugget!- WORDSWORDSWORDS) is an exercise in frustration. It’s so difficult to read! The content is totally disorganized. The chapter headings and subheadings sometimes don’t even remotely relate to what’s actually in that chapter. The book is clearly a self-published print-on-demand job, unfortunately printed directly from a poorly-formatted Word document. The author does not know what the word “opaque” means, which makes me wonder what other bits of “knowledge” she imparts might also be totally wrong. A few of the pronunciations in the Glossary gave me a chuckle (in that they’re silly AND wrong). Pages upon pages of the book are filled with nothing more than copied and pasted blank tables meant to show how you should record the results of your trials. The Bibliography & Sources section is completely nonsensical. So yeah, in a word, frustrating.HOWEVER. The author clearly know her materials, and knows them well. So I can’t discount the whole book based on the amateur writing and lack of editing. I do feel a bit cheated having paid a lot of money for very little usable information, but the 30 or so pages of REALLY useful stuff may very well prove to be worth it. I’m mainly referring to her thorough descriptions of a number of natural isolates, though I do wish she would have included info on what materials the isolates are typically derived from. She does seem to know what she’s talking about. If only she would find herself a decent editor. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent! I am very pleased *by A***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2017* I am reading this book every day. You can go to any page and learn something. Justine pours her heart in this book because of years and tears of trying and learning and planning and working the bench. Excellent! 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