Having decided to take the week off, I finally have the time to read Chandler Burr's 'The Emperor of Scent' - oh, what a fabulous decision!
The Emperor of Scent traces the story of Luca Turin and his semi-accidental discovery of the mechanisms of smell. Think Süßkind's 'The Perfume' without murder and in real life. It is fantastic. Burr manages to be engaging without ever turning to sensationalism; it makes me mourn Armani's decision to discontinue 'Sensi' all over again and tempts me to go hunt for a new scent. As Burr describes Turin as someone who is 'intellectually promiscuous', so this book is exactly for those kind of people: the ones that simply want to delve into obscure and seemingly unrelated topics and know more about the world we live in. It's also for anyone who is puzzled that their friends can't smell when it is about to snow.
Have a read, I cannot recommend it enough!
So long.
