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The secret of scent : adventures in perfume and the science of smell
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- Summary
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An exploration of the cutting-edge science of olfaction by a celebrated biophysicist who has attempted to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the body: how smell works.
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- Creator
- Luca Turin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Harper Perennial edition
- New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2007
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- ix, 207 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780061133848, 0061133841
- OCLC
- ocn148889100
- "An ecco book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Nombre noir: how I got into perfume -- A recipe -- How perfumes are composed -- What perfumes are not about: memory and sex -- What perfumes are about: beauty and intelligence -- A visit to the perfume museum -- Royal Fern -- Why 'natural' does not always mean good -- Why 'chemical' does not always mean bad -- Feynman's answer -- The beginnings of smell: chemical words -- Smell becomes perfume: chemical poems -- Reading the poem line by line -- How molecules are made -- A problem of nomenclature -- The landscape of smell -- A bit of biology -- Locks and keys -- Who turns the key? -- Membrane receptors -- Fishing for receptors -- Seeing atoms -- Evolution as the great locksmith -- The smell alphabet -- The primary smells -- The smell in the mirror -- Some strange clues -- Malcolm Dyson -- His big idea -- Molecular chords -- The smell of rocket fuel in the morning -- Robert H. Wright -- The revival of vibration -- Searching for the way it works -- New problems -- The fall of vibration -- Mirrors again -- Physics to the rescue -- Jaklevic and Lambe -- Giaever's leap -- The search for ripples -- A close brush with smell -- Clifton Meloan -- John Blaha's observation -- Where I come in: the polarograph -- Protein semiconductors -- The perfume guide -- Funding from the blue -- Revelation in Portugal -- Experiments in a locked room -- The future of fragrance -- Potato crisps and other art forms -- The future tout court