The Emperor of Scent

A True Story of Perfume and Obsession

By: Chandler Burr

Biography & Autobiography

the 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...