The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession and the Last Mystery of the Senses - Rilegato

Burr, Chandler

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0434011568 ISBN 13: 9780434011568

Casa editrice: William Heinemann Ltd, 2003

Riassunto

Patrick Susskind's novel Perfume made real - the true history of a scientific genius with eerie powers of smell who uses his gifts to solve one of the body's last secrets: how the nose works. Luca Turin was born with an uncannily powerful nose, able to distinguish the components of any scent, from the world's most refined perfumes to the air on the New York subways. A scientist, he kept his powers to himself, concentrating on other fields. But when, for the love of it, he began to write reviews of fragrances, and those reviews took the world by storm, everything changed. The secret world of scent creation opened up, and Turin discovered something astonishing: No one understands how our noses work. Billions and billions of dollars are spent creating the scents all around us in a manner that amounts to a glorified trial and error. The solution to the mystery of every other human sense had led to a Nobel Prize. Why should smell be any different? Turin has given his life to this great riddle. And in the end, incredibly, after an epic struggle, he solved it. Then things got really interesting...Chandler Burr tells the extraordinary story of Luca Turin, his incredible sense of smell an

Su questa edizione

• Editore: William Heinemann Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0434011568
• ISBN 13: 9780434011568
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 496