On Smell and Scientific Practice
- 11 August 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 313 (5788) , 763-764
Abstract
The Secret of Scent . Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell. By Luca Turin . Faber and Faber, London, 2006. 217 pp. £12.99. ISBN 0-571-21537-8. Forthcoming from Ecco, New York. ISBN 0-06-113383-3. A biophysicist and perfume critic describes his obsession with olfaction and his controversial theory that we smell primarily by detecting the vibrational frequency of molecules.Keywords
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