Secret of Scent by Luca Turin
Smell is our forgotten sense. Long neglected by science in favour of more prestigious areas of research, it's also barely understood in general life. 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 tells the story of the quest to solve this puzzle.
"'Meet Luca Turin, a renegade scientist and perfume critic with an extraordinary sense of smell' Newsday"
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 | 9780571215379 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571215378 |
| Title | Secret of Scent |
| Author | Luca Turin |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2006-05-18 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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