The Emperor of Scent, (Paperback)

from HHS-Staff

Reviewed by Mr. Janda (Social Studies) Burr is the perfume writer for the New York Times. In this book he tells the story of an eccentric French scientist, Luca Turin, with an amazing nose and fascination with both perfume and the science of smell. Turin shakes up the perfume industry with his fi...

from Niecierpek

Part physics, part biology, part chemistry, but first and foremost a very well written biography of Turin and his quest for recognition of his theory of smell according to which smell is detected through molecular vibrations. His theory contradicts the well established theory of smell as detectio...

from abraxalito

A gripping story - I finished it in a couple of days, almost un-putdownable. Some of the science simplifications are a tad dodgy (titanium is bulletproof?) but by and large those don't detract from the high drama. The value to me apart from Turin's very attractive theory, is the way resentment fo...

from BraveNewBks

Okay, wow. I absolutely loved this book. It had a little something for every part of me that wants something different in a book: there was science, real honest-to-God science, for the snobby intellectual , there was scandal and affrontery for the secret scandalmonger, there was talk of perfumery...

from HHS-Staff

Reviewed by Mr. Janda (Social Studies) Burr is the perfume writer for the New York Times. In this book he tells the story of an eccentric French scientist, Luca Turin, with an amazing nose and fascination with both perfume and the science of smell. Turin shakes up the perfume industry with his fi...