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The Emperor Of Scent
  • Published: 31 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448151493
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496

The Emperor Of Scent

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31 Aug 2012
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3 May 2004
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Patrick Suskind's novel Perfume made real - the true history of a scientific genius with eerie powers of smell who uses his gifts to solve one of the body's last secrets: how the nose works.

In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and James Gleick's Genius, The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin, an utterly unusual, stubborn scientist, his otherworldly gift for perfume, his brilliant, quixotic theory of how we smell, and his struggle to set before the world the secret of the most enigmatic of our senses.
  • Published: 31 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448151493
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496
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About the author

Chandler Burr

Chandler Burr was born in Chicago in 1963. He has a BA in Political Studies and a Masters in International Economics and Japan Studies from the School for Advanced International Studies in Washington DC. He is the author of a cover article, 'Homosexuality and Biology', which appeared in the March 1993 issue of the Atlantic Monthly magazine and caused considerable controversy.Since December 2010 he has been curator of olfactory art at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City.
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