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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 02/10/2004
ISBN: 9780375759819
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.15w x 0.77d
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 69203 / Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses
Reading Level: 8.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 20