For millennia, Nature’s aromatics have both enchanted and fascinated. Fragrant herbs, perfumed oils, scented resins and exotic spices have been used to heal and harm, to preserve and destroy and to worship and curse as the history of man has been written.

‘Mrs Darley’s Fragrant Herbal’, explores the fact that each herb, oil, resin and spice has a planet, or heavenly body as its ruler, which has a marked effect upon its nature and appearance and also upon the physical,emotional and psychological disorders it is capable of easing.

As always, Mrs Darley, the author’s delightful and ever-wise next door neighbour when she lived on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall back in the 1990’s, threads her way throughout the book, teaching Carole about the healing properties of nature’s aromatics and their importance in magick. Carole was also to learn however, that even plants with darker energies and less fragrant aromas can often prove to be invaluable.