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The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses

Chandler Burr

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#3318 of 3,809 books · #461 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2003).

In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and James Gleick's Genius, The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin, an utterly unusual, stubborn scientist, his otherworldly gift for perfume, his brilliant, quixotic theory of how we smell, and his struggle to set before the world the secret of the most enigmatic of our senses.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781448151493
Topics
Sense of smellPerfume industryScientific discovery

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