About this title: For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Suskind's novel "Perfume," but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true.
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Edition: Advanced Reading Copy.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2002
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, two page corners turned down, stk #2502t8. 314 p. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780375759819ISBN:0375759816
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. VG++. Text clean & bright with no writing, underlining or marks, exept for previous owner small, neat name in front. Cover clean with just slight corner wear. A very nice book. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Audience: General/trade. "A brilliant, feisty scientist at the center of a nasty, backstabbing, utterly absorbing, cliff-hanging scramble for the Nobel Prize...The Emperor of Scent is a quirky, wonderful book". read more
Edition: First Trade Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Random House, NY
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780375759819ISBN:0375759816
Description: Fine. 8vo. Clean tight copy, 332 pp w/index, reader's guide, "...tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide..." Drawn on cutting-edge work in biology, chemistry, and physics, Turin used his obsession with perfume to turn the worlds of the 'smell business' upside down. CL001. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2004-02-01
ISBN-13:9780375759819ISBN:0375759816
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780375759819. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780375759819ISBN:0375759816
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE INC
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780375759819ISBN:0375759816
Description: 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... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780099460237ISBN:0099460238
Description: New. Luca Turin was born with a powerful nose, able to distinguish the components of any scent, from the most refined perfumes to the air on the subways. When he began to write reviews of fragrances, everything changed. The secret world of scent creation o... read more
Edition: NEW ED
Publisher: ARROW (A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE GROUP), UK
ISBN-13:9780099460237ISBN:0099460238
Description: Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. Luca Turin was born with an uncannily powerful nose, able to distinguish the components of any scent, from the world's most refined perfumes to the air on the New York subways. A scientist, he kept his powers to himself, concentrating on other fields. But when, for the love of it, he began to write reviews of fragrances, and those reviews took the ... read more
Edition: NEW ED
Publisher: ARROW (A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE GROUP), UK
ISBN-13:9780099460237ISBN:0099460238
Description: PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled. Luca Turin was born with an uncannily powerful nose, able to distinguish the components of any scent, from the world's most refined perfumes to the air on the New York subways. A scientist, he kept his powers to himself, concentrating on other fields. But when, for the love of it, he began to write reviews of fragrances, and those reviews took the world by storm, ... read more
"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 first book and then turns his attention to discovering how we smell. His resurrection of an old theory with new proof threatens to destroy careers and entire industries. Burr explains how Turin's scientific efforts are silenced by a commitment to profit and institutional resistance to and fear of change.
"I found myself in the library without any ideas, so I texted my brother for suggestions. He promptly sent me this one, and once again Joe shows great taste.
One of those compelling non-fiction reads, like Pollan or Bronson, but this one manages to make a subject more distant than food or employment (hard science) just as interesting as any summer beach read. Perhaps because it's also about the scientific method and personalities, but it doesn't at all skimp on the parts that, if they don't make you feel more intelligent upon reading this book, they certainly leave you better informed.
As you could suspect from the title, this is about a scientist's exploration of how scent works. You learn a lot about how the perfume industry works, how the body works, how science works, and how, importantly, science DOESN'T work.
What isn't work, is this book. I finished it in two days. It grew a little long in the middle, as there'd be yet another step forward in the experimental process stymied by yet another step backwards in peer review obtusity. But what do you want, that's science, bitches."
"Compelling, fast yet extremely satisfying read. Ever since reading Perfume by Patrick Suskind I've been fascinated bysmell. Not least because so many people have such different experiences of it. Something not really touched on in this book - but it really is everything you ever wanted to know about smell! The theories, the perfume business, the business of peer review of science. All of these are dragged out in a thoroughly entertaining and readable way. I understood the science! I also now know why L'air du temps does NOT smell like I recall from early childhood (my mother had it and it was my favourite)."
"I've gained a new appreciation for smelling stuff. Very interesting and quite entertaining. The biophysicist who is the subject of this book wrote a guide to perfumes that I plan on leafing through in a bookstore some day. he said "Tommy Girl" was the best American perfume ever made, but for my money, CK One flashes me back to 9th grade more effectively."
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