![]() ![]() Unfortunately, though, Perfumes has the side effect of making the reader-well, this reader-embark immediately on the kind of quest that leads her to a lot of esoteric corners of the internet and shoddy midtown shops. I found it in the “fashion” section of a classy bookstore, and in retrospect this seems like finding Madame Bovary shelved with the historical romances. The result, their Perfumes: The Guide, has a wide readership among people who admire good perfume, but it deserves a wider one among people who admire good criticism of any kind. ![]() In 2008 Luca Turin, a European biochemist who’d done groundbreaking research on how olfaction works, joined forces with Tania Sanchez, a thirtyish American, to produce an English edition of his cult hit French perfume guide. ![]()
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