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About the product Luca Turin is a famous perfume critic, author of bestselling books on fragrances, scientist, researcher. In his famous book «The Secret of Scent», finally published in Russian, the author talks about how a smell becomes a scent, what stands in the way of this transformation from chemical composition to human perception. You will learn that sometimes a fragrance, before it became beautiful and sensual, could have a monstrous smell, and a real perfume masterpiece could be hidden behind the ugly packaging. Abstract «The Secret of Aroma» is a book about perfumery as a science. You will understand what makes one molecule smell like garlic and the other smell like rose; learn about two competing theories of smell; Understand the biological mechanisms by which we perceive smell. Luca Turin, the famous perfume critic, talks exciting, accessible, fun and convincing about the still most mysterious of the senses.
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