No. 014
The Emperor of Scent
A True Story of Perfume and Obsession
Chandler Burr
Random House, 2003
Selected by Avigon Paphitis, Gorgeous Nothings
An account of the biophysicist Luca Turin and his vibrational theory of smell, which contests the prevailing shape theory. Burr followed Turin for several years, through the writing of the theory and its rejection by parts of the scientific establishment. Burr went on to be the first scent critic at The New York Times.
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