But when, as a lark, he published a collection of his reviews of the world’s perfumes, the book hit the small, insular business of perfume makers like a thunderclap. A distinguished scientist, he once worked in an unrelated field, though he made a hobby of collecting fragrances. Luca Turin can distinguish the components of just about any smell, from the world’s most refined perfumes to the air in a subway car on the Paris metro. It concerns how he made use of his powerful gifts to solve one of the last great mysteries of the human body: how our noses work. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Süskind’s novel Perfume, but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true. Chandler Burr | The Emperor Of Scent: A Story Of Perfume, Obsession And The Last Mystery Of The Sensesįor as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells.
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