- Gebundene Ausgabe: 208 Seiten
- Verlag: Faber & Faber (18. Mai 2006)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0571215378
- ISBN-13: 978-0571215379
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,2 x 12,8 x 2,6 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.3 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 258.545 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"'Meet Luca Turin, a renegade scientist and perfume critic with an extraordinary sense of smell.' Newsday"
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"Meet Luca Turin, a renegade scientist and perfume critic with an extraordinary sense of smell." ("Newsday"). Funny, irreverent and passionate, "The Secret of Scent" opens the lid on two worlds - the glamorous and highly lucrative realm of the perfume makers, and the equally rivalrous domain of smell science. Smell is our forgotten sense. Long neglected by science in favour of more prestigious areas of research, it's also barely understood in general life. At the core of our sense of smell lies an enigma: why do things smell the way they do? How is smell written into the molecules? This book is the story of the quest to solve this puzzle. Luca Turin has been described in "The Economist" as 'a man with a powerful nose and a bizarre obsession with perfume.' Starting with a tour of the great perfumes and their gifted makers, he shows how few people have an idea of what perfume is or how it is made, let alone how smell works and what part it plays in other pleasures like food. But not everyone has ignored this powerful sense. A small band of mavericks has been trying to crack the code of smell for 70 years. Buiding on their work, Turin thinks he has succeeded. And like all good mysteries, the solution was all the while hidden in plain sight - in this case, right under our noses.
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What a great, great book. I just finished reading it and was heading for the computer to leave some good words on Amazon to praise this masterpiece. Being a perfumer's apprentice myself, I can judge the book from own experience working with most of the raw materials described and having had similar insights in the last few years.
Mr. Turin knows 100% what he is talking about. This is no "I copy from other books and hopefully nobody will notice" type of thing. The secret of scent is amazingly well written, it reads like a novell, like an adventure in science. Reading it means great fun. Luca writes in a way so you can understand and not so you just know how dumb you are and how smart the author thinks he is, as many other "science books" are composed. I would recommend it to just everybody being interested in how perfumes "tick", but for perfumers it is a "Nr. 1 must read".
The secret of scent starts with a description of why we can't make perfumes only with natural substances alone and how it came we went deeper and deeper in understanding scents using chemistry. It then explains very detailed and in a crystal clear logical chain HOW WE SMELL!
The secret of scent left me breathless; a true revelation in the science of scent. Since I gave only one star to Luca's other book "Perfumes - The Guide", I must say that I did not expect at all this book to be of such an outstanding quality. IMHO, this book has a place among the "100 best popular science books ever written".
Mr. Turin knows 100% what he is talking about. This is no "I copy from other books and hopefully nobody will notice" type of thing. The secret of scent is amazingly well written, it reads like a novell, like an adventure in science. Reading it means great fun. Luca writes in a way so you can understand and not so you just know how dumb you are and how smart the author thinks he is, as many other "science books" are composed. I would recommend it to just everybody being interested in how perfumes "tick", but for perfumers it is a "Nr. 1 must read".
The secret of scent starts with a description of why we can't make perfumes only with natural substances alone and how it came we went deeper and deeper in understanding scents using chemistry. It then explains very detailed and in a crystal clear logical chain HOW WE SMELL!
The secret of scent left me breathless; a true revelation in the science of scent. Since I gave only one star to Luca's other book "Perfumes - The Guide", I must say that I did not expect at all this book to be of such an outstanding quality. IMHO, this book has a place among the "100 best popular science books ever written".
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Eine äußerst unterhaltsame und geistreiche Reise vom Parfum zum Mechanismus des Riechens in gut 50 Kapiteln, gewürzt mit witzigen Randbemerkungen zu Paul Feyerabend bis zu den Grateful Dead und bissigen Seitenhieben auf den Wissenschaftsbetrieb. Für jeden, der sich für die naturwissenschaftlichen Aspekte von Parfum und Riechen interessiert, erscheint mir das Buch ein "Muß". Für diejenigen, die kein Interesse an Naturwissenschaften aufbringen, dürfte es sich weniger eignen, und für die, die über keine Grundkenntnisse in Chemie und Physik verfügen, teilweise etwas schwierig zu verstehen sein.
3 von 4 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
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Entertaining, but if you have read The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr you wonder, why Luca Turin had
to publish his own book; the Burr version is far wittier, and Luca has nothing new to add.
However, if you are a novice in the field of perfumes, go ahead.
to publish his own book; the Burr version is far wittier, and Luca has nothing new to add.
However, if you are a novice in the field of perfumes, go ahead.
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