The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (649 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375759816 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jeff Bennion said A redolent exploration of our most neglected sense. The sense of smell is the most neglected, most protected, of our senses, especially in the developed world. So many of us are so far removed from smell, we ignore, distrust, or fear this sense. Scientists believe that the human sense of smell is every bit as good as that of our best friend, dogs. We just haven't developed it to the degree they have, Luca Turin exempted.Yet the sense of smell is also the most primitive of the senses, and the most evocative. A particular smell can transport me back to a certain time or place more effectively than a song, or an image. Olfaction is wired to a more primitive part of the brain, which ma. Beware: There is a lot of science in this Monica Collins Beware: There is a lot of science in this book. If you want a casual read about the perfumed world, look elsewhere. If you seek to understand scent, read it.. New ideas versus old faction GTOlson Chandler Burr has written an interesting book in which we learn as much about the author as we do its subject - Luca Turin, Ph.D. Mr. Burr wants desperately to believe that the scientific establishment (and subsequently the Nobel Committee) has ignored the answer to the riddle of olfaction in the form of Turin's theory of smell. Has an out-of -the-box thinker, namely Turin, defied the odds and come up with the perfect description to explain how we sense odors? Doubtful, but that didn't deter Burr because Burr, like our subject Turin, is a dreamer at heart.Here's my take on this book. First the facts: 1) Our understanding of olfact
. So what happens when Luca Turin, a likable scientist who happens to possess an unusually sensitive nose, proposes a new theory of smell that promises to unravel the mystery once and for all? That's what readers find out in this often funny, picaresque expos‚ of the closed world of whiffs, aromas and odors-and the people who study them. From Publishers Weekly Nobody knows for sure what makes our noses work the way they do, not even the $20-billion-a-year perfume industry's legions of chemists, whose jobs depend on appealing to those noses. Burr (A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Orig
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 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 upside down, leading to a solution to the last great mystery of the senses: how the nose works.