The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and

In-Store

on our shelves

Used; Acceptable

$9.99

Special Order

available in 2-14 days

New

$28.35

FORT398820

RB - Science

Add to Cart View Cart

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.