Luca Turin

Tania Sanchez

'I've long wished perfumery to be taken seriously as an art, and for scent critics to be as fierce as opera critics, and for the wearers of certain "fragrances" to be hissed in public, while others are cheered. This year has brought Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, which I breathed in, rather than read, in one delighted gulp.' Hilary Mantel, Guardian Perfumes: The Guide is the culmination of Turin's lifelong obsession and rare scientific flair and Sanchez's stylish and devoted blogging about every scent that she's ever loved and loathed. Together they make a fine and utterly persuasive argument for the unrecognised craft of perfume-making. Perfume writing has certainly never been this honest, compelling or downright entertaining.

The A-Z Guide

Perfumes

Documents the science of olfaction and its relationship with fragrance, in an account that chronicles the history of organic chemistry from its origins in the nineteenth century through the modern world's perfume industry.

Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell

The Secret of Scent

An olfactory scientist and a perfume critic review more than 1,200 fragrances to identify preferred and less-recommended varieties, in a guide that introduces women's and men's fragrances and discusses the history and chemistry of perfumes.

The Guide

the A-Z guide

An olfactory scientist and a perfume critic review one hundred classic fragances.

The Hundred Classics

The Little Book of Perfumes

Perfumes The Guide 2018

Perfumes the Guide 2018

Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez are experts in the world of scent. Turin, a renowned scientist, and Sanchez, a longtime perfume lover, have spent years sniffing the world¿s most elegant and beautiful -- as well as truly terrible -- perfumes. Here, they combine their talents and experience to review nearly 1,500 fragrances, separating the divine and the good from the monumentally awful. Their witty, irreverent, and illuminating prose provides not only an essential guide to shopping for fragrance, but also a unique reading experience. Contents: Intro. to Perfume Criticism; Feminine Fragrance; Masculine Fragrance; Chemistry and Art; Answers to Frequently Asked Questions; Perfume Reviews; Glossary of Materials and Terms; and Top 10 Lists.

The quintessential guide to the one hundred most glorious perfumes in the world. When Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez published Perfumes: The Guide in 2008, it was hailed as "ravishingly entertaining" by John Lanchester in The New Yorker, "witty and knowledgeable" on Style.com, and "provocative and hugely entertaining" by the Times Literary Supplement. The Little Book of Perfumes focuses on just one hundred masterpieces of perfume: ninety-six five-star perfumes from the original book, as well as four "museum" perfumes-legendary scents that are preserved in the Versailles Osmothèque. This stunningly produced petite volume offers lovers of perfume the best of the best-a perfect gift book for anyone looking either for a brilliant fragrance or an intelligent, witty read.

Die einhundert Klassiker

Das kleine Buch der großen Parfums

A book about science by way of art, in which author Luca Turin¿s passion for perfume leads him to the scientific mystery of what makes one molecule smell of garlic while another smells of rose. Readers who know Luca Turin as the lively central figure in Chandler Burr¿s ¿The Emperor of Scent¿ will remember the ongoing debate between two competing theories of smell -- one based on molecular shape, the other on molecular vibrations. Now Turin himself describes in detail the science, evidence, and long history of this debate from the beginnings of organic chemistry to the present day, and pays homage to those before him who got it right. ¿Will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered about smell, still the most mysterious of the senses.¿

Secret of Scent

"Turin confirms his right to be classed alongside Proust or Patrick Suskind as a poet of smell." -Lara Feigel, ObserverIn 1992, Luca Turin wrote the first truly critical guide to perfume, Parfums le guide. It has been out of print until now.This new edition includes both the original French and the first authorized English translation, plus a new, highly personal foreword by Turin. LUCA TURIN wrote the first critical guide to perfume. He is a biophysicist, popular lecturer, and author of several books on science, perfume, and culture.TANIA SANCHEZ is a writer with an interest in perfume, aesthetics, and culture. She is the co-author with Luca Turin of Perfumes: The A-Z Guide and The Little Book of Perfumes.

Perfumes: Parfums Le Guide 1994

From 2003 to 2014, scientist and perfume critic Luca Turin (The Secret of Scent, Perfumes: the A-Z Guide) wrote two widely admired columns for distinguished Swiss magazine NZZ Folio. First in the "Duftnote" he discussed all things smellable, from Blue Stratos to Mitsouko and the fragrance of a particular Air France jet. Afterward in "Either/Or" he helped readers examine the relative merits of such as heels vs. flats, trains vs. trams, or Captain Nemo vs. Captain Haddock. Written in Turin's inimitable and highly quotable style, full of passionately held opinions on subjects major and minor, pulling on culture high and low, Old World and New, aesthetic and scientific, these essays were some of the best loved parts of the magazine. However, the columns were only intermittently available in English. This is the first time many of these writings have been published in the original. Included are four feature articles also published in NZZ Folio, plus a foreword written by his co-author of Perfumes: the A-Z Guide, Tania Sanchez.

Folio Columns 2003-2014

In Perfumes, Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez reviewed nearly 1,500 fragrances in their witty, irreverent and innovative handbook - separating the divine from the good from the monumentally awful. Here in The Little Book of Perfumes the authors choose their 100 greatest fragrances of all time. Some are very famous, some hardly known, for women and men. There is Jicky (1889), unisex coeval of the Eiffel Tower and 'a towering masterpiece'; Chanel's No. 5 (1921), perhaps the world's most famous perfume, 'stretching deliciously like a sleepy panther'; Knize Ten which 'everyone should own because there is only one like it' and White Linen (1978), 'a canonical expression of the American ideal of sex appeal'. This is a perfect gift, a perfect browse.

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