The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession by Chandler Burr

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

Chandler Burr

352 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science reflective slow-paced
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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...

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