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The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession Audiobook
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"A brilliant, feisty scientist at the center of a nasty, back-stabbing, utterly absorbing, cliff-hanging scramble for the Nobel Prize. The Emperor of Scent is a quirky, wonderful book." —JOHN BERENDT, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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.
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About Chandler Burr
Chandler Burr is the New York Times perfume critic and the author of The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses and A Separate Creation. Burr, who earned a master’s in international economics and Japan studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, has written for the Atlantic; the New York Times Magazine; US News & World Report, where he was a contributing editor; and the New Yorker. He lives in New York City.
About Jamie Renell
Jamie Renell is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.