The secret of scent : adventures in perfume and the science of smell

The secret of scent : adventures in perfume and the science of smell / Luca Turin.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turin, Luca (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperPerennial, 2007.
Edition:First Harper Perennial edition
Subjects:
Perfumes > Miscellanea.
Smell.
Trivia and miscellanea
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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