![]() ![]() He is looking for the rare and expensive perfume ingredient oudh. ![]() For his part, Burr does a fine job of turning both the science and the academic jockeying around a possible publication in Nature into a pulse-racing affair. The next morning, he gets up early and leaves on his pilgrimage to Mohamedali Road, famous for perfume, firecracker shops, and muglai food snack joints. ![]() As both the author and the subject admit, the evidence is still preliminary, but the details of Turin's work unfold like a revelation. The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession by Burr, Chandler and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Turin is good company, and his vibrational theory of smell neatly upends conventional thinking, by claiming that the nose is the body's spectroscope and analyzes molecules by electron bond rather than by shape. Burr's candidate is Luca Turin, a London-based research scientist whom he presents as a Continental rogue, unfettered polymath, and pure sensualist. For the person who figures it out, a Nobel prize surely waits, along with the lucrative gratitude of the multinational perfume companies. Acclaimed writer Chandler Burr has spent four years chronicling Luca Turins quest to unravel the mystery of how our sense of smell works. ![]() It's precisely this pungent leap from chemistry to metaphor that Burr negotiates so well in his fascinating and lucid book about the sense of smell. A French perfumer, asked to describe a particular scent molecule, declares, It smells of the woman who neglects herself. ![]()
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