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

Author: Chandler Burr

Narrator: Jamie Renell

Unabridged: 12 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/29/2022

Synopsis

"A brilliant, feisty scientist at the center of a nasty, back-stabbing, utterly absorbing, cliff-hanging scramble for the Nobel Prize. The Emperor of Scent is a quirky, wonderful book." —JOHN BERENDT, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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 used his obsession with perfume and his eerie gift for smell to turn the cloistered worlds of the smell business and science upside down, leading to a solution to the last great mystery of the senses: how the nose works.

About Chandler Burr

Chandler Burr is the former New York Times scent critic and author of The Perfect Scent, A Separate Creation, and the novel You or Someone Like You. He founded the Department of Olfactory Art at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Burr has written for the New Yorker and the Atlantic. He lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on February 12, 2008

Ever since I heard that the NYT had its own perfume critic, I've had a kind of love-hate relationship with Chandler: "In Dior Homme, its perfumer, Olivier Polge, has used a light, assured, masterly touch to turn out an iris that has the grace of a Japanese maple and the careful, muscular cool of a le......more

Goodreads review by Peggy on August 23, 2007

Here we sit at the dawn of the 21st century. Science has figured out the basics and is now just working on the details, right? Would it surprise you to learn that, in this day and age, we have no idea how smell works? The accepted theory is that smell works when receptors in the nose recognize the s......more

Goodreads review by Rose on January 12, 2023

Thanks, Kristy, for giving me a hardcover copy of "The Emperor of Scent." Simply put, this delightful book is the story of a great nose. Learn how Luca Tirin found his own method for dishing on perfumes... and what that,in turn, set in motion. Distinguishing the components of smells can be the work o......more

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