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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 useContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 352 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0375759816
- ISBN-13: 9780375759819
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Pub date: Feb 10, 2004
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
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The Emperor of Scent By Chandler Burr
Biophysicist Luca Turin was born with an incredible sense of smell. He can identify the ingredients of thousands of scents right down to their individual molecules. Turin's study of smell resulted in the revolutionary theory that it's not a molecule' ... (read full critics)