The Secret of Scent by Luca Turin
Shows two worlds - the lucrative realm of the perfume makers, and the equally rivalrous domain of smell science. At the core of our sense of smell lies an enigma: why do things smell the way they do? How is smell written into the molecules? This book is the story of the quest to solve this puzzle.
"'The Secret of Scent may be a curiosity, but it is one that will have you smelling the silence of a snowy night' Observer"
Luca Turin was born in 1953 and educated in France, Italy and the UK. He holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of London and was for 10 years a tenured staff member of the French CNRS. He is the author of many scientific publications as well as a much-praised perfume guide. For seven years he was Lecturer in Biophysics at University College London. He now designs scent molecules for a US startup company, Flexitral, using the scientific process described in this book. He is the subject of an award-winning BBC Horizon documentary and a biography, The Emperor of Scent.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571215386 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571215386 |
| Title | The Secret of Scent |
| Author | Luca Turin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2007-05-17 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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