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The Emperor of Scent

Author : Chandler Burr
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588362604
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of Scent written by Chandler Burr and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-01-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Süskind’s novel Perfume, but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true. It concerns how he made use of his powerful gifts to solve one of the last great mysteries of the human body: how our noses work. Luca Turin can distinguish the components of just about any smell, from the world’s most refined perfumes to the air in a subway car on the Paris metro. A distinguished scientist, he once worked in an unrelated field, though he made a hobby of collecting fragrances. But when, as a lark, he published a collection of his reviews of the world’s perfumes, the book hit the small, insular business of perfume makers like a thunderclap. Who is this man Luca Turin, they demanded, and how does he know so much? The closed community of scent creation opened up to Luca Turin, and he discovered a fact that astonished him: no one in this world knew how smell worked. Billions and billions of dollars were spent creating scents in a manner amounting to glorified trial and error. The solution to the mystery of every other human sense has led to the Nobel Prize, if not vast riches. Why, Luca Turin thought, should smell be any different? So he gave his life to this great puzzle. And in the end, incredibly, it would seem that he solved it. But when enormously powerful interests are threatened and great reputations are at stake, Luca Turin learned, nothing is quite what it seems. Acclaimed writer Chandler Burr has spent four years chronicling Luca Turin’s quest to unravel the mystery of how our sense of smell works. What has emerged is an enthralling, magical book that changes the way we think about that area between our mouth and our eyes, and its profound, secret hold on our lives.

The Emperor of Scent

Author : Chandler Burr
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375759816
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of Scent written by Chandler Burr and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-02-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Perfect Scent

Author : Chandler Burr
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312425777
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Scent written by Chandler Burr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perfect Scent is the thrilling inside story of the global perfume industry, told through two creators working on two very different scents.

The Little Book of Perfumes

Author : Luca Turin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110154533X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Little Book of Perfumes written by Luca Turin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quintessential guide to the one hundred most glorious perfumes in the world. When Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez published Perfumes: The Guide in 2008, it was hailed as "ravishingly entertaining" by John Lanchester in The New Yorker, "witty and knowledgeable" on Style.com, and "provocative and hugely entertaining" by the Times Literary Supplement. The Little Book of Perfumes focuses on just one hundred masterpieces of perfume: ninety-six five-star perfumes from the original book, as well as four "museum" perfumes-legendary scents that are preserved in the Versailles Osmothèque. This stunningly produced petite volume offers lovers of perfume the best of the best-a perfect gift book for anyone looking either for a brilliant fragrance or an intelligent, witty read.

The Secret of Scent

Author : Luca Turin
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061133841
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book The Secret of Scent written by Luca Turin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's passion for perfume leads him to explore one of the most intriguing scientific mysteries: What makes one molecule smell of garlic while another smells of rose? In this witty, engrossing, and wildly original volume, author Luca Turin explores the two competing theories of smell. Is scent determined by molecular shape or molecular vibrations? Turin describes in fascinating detail the science, the evidence, and the often contentious debate—from the beginnings of organic chemistry to the present day—and pays homage to the scientists who went before. With its uniquely accessible and captivating approach to science via art, The Secret of Scent will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered about the most mysterious of the five senses.

Fragrant

Author : Mandy Aftel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594631417
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Fragrant written by Mandy Aftel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Perfumed Plume Award The “Alice Waters of American natural perfume” (indieperfume.com) and author of the Art of Flavor celebrates our most potent sense, through five rock stars of the fragrant world Mandy Aftel is widely acclaimed as a trailblazer in natural perfumery. Over two decades of sourcing the finest aromatic ingredients from all over the world and creating artisanal fragrances, she has been an evangelist for the transformative power of scent. In Fragrant, through five major players in the epic of aroma, she explores the profound connection between our sense of smell and the appetites that move us, give us pleasure, make us fully alive. Cinnamon, queen of the Spice Route, touches our hunger for the unknown, the exotic, the luxurious. Mint, homegrown the world over, speaks to our affinity for the familiar, the native, the authentic. Frankincense, an ancient incense ingredient, taps into our longing for transcendence, while ambergris embodies our unquenchable curiosity. And exquisite jasmine exemplifies our yearning for beauty, both evanescent and enduring. In addition to providing a riveting initiation into the history, natural history, and philosophy of scent, Fragrant imparts the essentials of scent literacy and includes recipes for easy-to-make fragrances and edible, drinkable, and useful concoctions that reveal the imaginative possibilities of creating with—and reveling in—aroma. Vintage line drawings make for a volume that will be a treasured gift as well as a great read.

Revelations in Air

Author : Jude Stewart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143135996
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Revelations in Air written by Jude Stewart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary, strange, and startlingly beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of our five senses The nose on your face is the Buckingham Palace Guard of your body, the maitre d' of all taste, as well as the seducer of your imagination, and memory—and Jude Stewart has charmed them all into a wicked, poetic and illuminating tour of their mysterious domains. —Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs Overlapping with taste yet larger in scope, smell is the sense that comes closest to pure perception. Smell can collapse space and time, unlocking memories and transporting us to worlds both new and familiar. Yet as clearly as each of us can recognize different smells--the bright tang of citrus, freshly sharpened pencils, parched earth after rain--few of us understand how and why we smell. In Revelations in Air, Jude Stewart takes us on a fascinating journey into the weird and wonderful world of smell. Beginning with lessons on the incredible biology and history of how our noses work, Stewart teaches us how to use our noses like experts. Once we're properly equipped and ready to sniff, Stewart explores a range of smells—from lavender, cut grass and hot chocolate to cannabis and old books—using smell as a lens into art, history, science, and more. With an engaging colorful design and exercises for readers to refine their own skills, Revelations in Air goes beyond science or history or chemistry--it's a doorway into the surprising, pleasurable, and unfamiliar landscape of smell.

Perfumes

Author : Luca Turin
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847651526
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Perfumes written by Luca Turin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I've long wished perfumery to be taken seriously as an art, and for scent critics to be as fierce as opera critics, and for the wearers of certain "fragrances" to be hissed in public, while others are cheered. This year has brought Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, which I breathed in, rather than read, in one delighted gulp.' Hilary Mantel, Guardian Perfumes: The Guide is the culmination of Turin's lifelong obsession and rare scientific flair and Sanchez's stylish and devoted blogging about every scent that she's ever loved and loathed. Together they make a fine and utterly persuasive argument for the unrecognised craft of perfume-making. Perfume writing has certainly never been this honest, compelling or downright entertaining.

The Perfume Companion

Author : Sarah McCartney
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 0711242194
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Perfume Companion written by Sarah McCartney and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An authoritative guide from two experts who really know their way around scent' – FUNMI FETTO The Perfume Companion is a beautifully illustrated compendium of almost 500 recommended scents, designed to help you pick out your next favourite fragrance. Perfumes have the power to evoke treasured memories, make us feel fabulous and help us express our best self. But with so many out there, how do you choose something new? When the scents in the perfume shop are merging into one aromatic haze, how do you remain focused? And if your favourite scent goes out of stock, how do you replace it? The Perfume Companion is here to help. Sarah McCartney and Samantha Scriven deliver a host of scents for you to try – including bargain finds and luxury treasures, iconic stalwarts and indie newcomers, the lightest florals and the deepest leathers. With insider information about how perfumes are really made, discover hundreds of new fragrances and find the scents to share your own memories with. This is the perfect companion for your scented adventures.

Perfume

Author : Richard Howard Stamelman
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfume written by Richard Howard Stamelman and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

You or Someone Like You

Author : Chandler Burr
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061885592
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book You or Someone Like You written by Chandler Burr and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Chandler Burr’s challenging first novel is many things: a glimpse into Hollywood culture, an argument about religious identity, a plea for the necessity of literature. This is a roman that needs no clefs.” —Washington Post New York Magazinecalls You or Someone Like You, “The highbrow humanist name-dropping book of the summer.” The remarkable first novel by Chandler Burr, the New York Times scent critic and author of The Perfect Scent, is funny, smart, and provocative—an extraordinarily ambitious work of fiction that succeeds on many different levels. It is a book David Ebershoff, (authorof The 19th Wife) enthusiastically recommends “for anyone who defiantly clings to the belief that a book can change our lives.”

The Ghost Perfumer

Author : Gabe Oppenheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578964775
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Perfumer written by Gabe Oppenheim and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant perfumer, perhaps the greatest of all time, who nevertheless boasts an inferiority complex because of his father's withholding of praise and encouragement, falls under the sway of a wealthy haberdasher con-man who, playing on the insecurity, convinces the perfumer to become his aromatic ghostwriter...for free.

The Island of Lost Maps

Author : Miles Harvey
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030776656X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Island of Lost Maps written by Miles Harvey and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had gone virtually undetected until he was caught in 1995–and was unmasked as the most prolific American map thief in history. As Miles Harvey unravels the mystery of Bland’s life, he maps out the world of cartography and cartographic crime, weaving together a fascinating story of exploration, craftsmanship, villainy, and the lure of the unknown.

The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession

Author : Chandler Burr
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417634484
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession written by Chandler Burr and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Eyes of the Emperor

Author : Graham Salisbury
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0385386567
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Eyes of the Emperor written by Graham Salisbury and published by Ember. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddy Okubo lies about his age and joins the army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy—even the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers. Then the army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese American soldiers on a secret mission to a small island off the coast of Mississippi. Here they are given a special job, one that only they can do. Eddy’s going to help train attack dogs. He’s going to be the bait.

The Perfume Lover

Author : Denyse Beaulieu
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143188429
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Perfume Lover written by Denyse Beaulieu and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the most beautiful night in your life inspired a perfume? When Denyse Beaulieu was growing up in Montreal, perfume was forbidden in her house, spurring a childhood curiosity that became an intellectual and sensual passion. She pursued this passion to Paris, where she now lives, becoming a respected fragrance writer. But little did she know that it would also lead her to achieve a perfume lover’s wildest dream.

A Scented Palace

Author : Elisabeth de Feydeau
Publisher : Tauris Parke
ISBN 13 : 0755647149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book A Scented Palace written by Elisabeth de Feydeau and published by Tauris Parke. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of Marie-Antoinette's perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon. Montpellier, 1748: Jean-Louis Fargeon is born into a family of perfumers and soon becomes apprentice to his father's modest perfumery. But he dreams of the glittering court of Versailles and of becoming perfumer to the young queen, Marie Antoinette. His ambition carried him to Paris where his boutique became one of the most elegant and well-patronised in France. Concocting sumptuous perfumes and pomades for most of the French nobility, Fargeon eventually caught the attention of the queen. After meeting Marie Antoinette in the Trianon Palace, he began creating lavish bespoke scents that perfectly reflected her moods and personality. He served as her personal and exclusive perfumer for fourteen years until 1789 when the darkness of Revolution swept across France, its wrath aimed at the extravagance of a now hated queen. Fargeon, a lifelong supporter of the Republican cause but a purveyor to the court, was in a dangerous position. Yet he remained fiercely loyal to Marie Antoinette, beyond her desperate flight to Varennes, her execution and even through his own imprisonment and trial...