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The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession

by Chandler Burr · 2002

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The Emperor of Scenttells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge work in biology, chemistry, and physics, Turin used his obsession with perfume and his eerie gift for smell to turn the cloistered worlds of the smell business and science upside down, leading to a solution to the last great mystery of the senses: how the nose works.

Subject
sciencebiographyhistorybusinesspsychology
Genre
historical fiction
Themes
fashion
Setting
2000sBritish
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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