Chandler Burr is the author of A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation. He has contributed to The Atlantic and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications.
"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
"Professional perfume critic, obsessive collector of rare
fragrances, academic-bad-boy biochemist and world-class eccentric,
Luca Turin would be the worthy subject of a book even if he hadn't
come up with a revolutionary scientific theory. Written with skill
and verve, The Emperor of Scent is an engrossing intellectual
detective story about one iconoclast's quest to solve a
centuries-old mystery--how smell works."
-Miles Harvey, author of The Island of Lost Maps
"The Emperor of Scent is a gem of a book--a suspense story at whose
heart is a man of super-human powers who is also flawed and
justifiably arrogant and dangerously steeped in hubris. I challenge
any intelligent, curious mind not to tumble into this story and
find themselves immediately engrossed. I fell in love with Luca
Turin--he is everything I admire in a human: irreverent, witty,
imaginative, determined, elitist without a trace of snobbery and
above all a creative genius. And Chandler Burr is a magician
himself, and a man we should all be so lucky to have at a dinner
party: I was mesmerized and enlightened by the many perfect asides
woven into the main body of this incredible true tale."
-Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
“What happens when Luca Turin, a likable scientist who happens to
possess an unusually sensitive nose, proposes a new theory of smell
that promises to unravel the mystery [of scent] once and for all?
That’s what readers find out in this often funny, picaresque exposé
of the closed world of whiffs, aromas and odors—and the people who
study them.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Exhibiting more grace than a magician in tails, Chandler Burr
brings science and the people who practice it to life in The
Emperor of Scent. . . . Burr does a remarkable job of explaining
both Turin, the man behind the idea, and his science.”
—The Denver Post
“Chandler Burr . . . has transformed a chance meeting with a
curious biophysicist named Luca Turin into an amusing and poetic
adventure in science and art.”
—The Washington Post
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