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

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The Emperor of Scent tells 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. Read more

ISBN10 0375759816
ISBN13 978-0375759819
Edition Reprint
Language English
Publisher Random House Publishing Group
Dimensions 5.19 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Item Weight 8.6 ounces
Print length 352 pages
Publication date February 10, 2004

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