Book description
In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and James Gleick's
Genius, The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin, an utterly
unusual, stubborn scientist, his otherworldly gift for perfume, his
brilliant, quixotic theory of how we smell, and his struggle to set
before the world the secret of the most enigmatic of our senses.
Chandler Burr is the author of
A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation
. He has contributed to the Atlantic
, was a Contributing Editor at US News & World Report
, and has written for the New York Times Magazine
, the Washington Post
, the Los Angeles Times
, and other publications. He lives in New York.
