They all come recommended by the IAO as well. A couple of them I’ve already read and the rest I’m eagerly anticipating. These six books dive into the history and science of scent. 6 Books About Perfume and Scent to Tickle the Nose I’ve since purchased and procured six that I thought sounded most promising. They also have a list of recommended books about perfume and scents. They’re wonderfully affordable and cover a wide range of topics, from the history of specific scent categories to the process of setting up your own perfume lab. I began my journey into the world of perfume by taking online classes at the Institute for Art and Olfaction (IAO).
I want to know everything about it: the history, the cultural significance, the science behind it, how it’s made, and how to make it myself. When I become obsessed with a new interest I like to read as much about that thing as I can. This bilingual French-English edition includes both the original text and the first authorized English translation, by Tania Sanchez, as well as a highly personal new foreword by Luca Turin.We talk a lot about memoirs on the podcast and on our blog, but since it’s Nonfiction November I wanted to give some love to other types of nonfiction. Yet while the book was quoted thoroughly in Chandler Burr's The Emperor of Scent, sparking intense interest in Turin's perfume writing as well as his scientific theory, the original guide has remained out of print for 25 years, untranslated until now.
The publication of this book led to Turin's entry to the fragrance industry, where his observations led him to the vibration theory of olfaction and the biological mechanism he proposed to explain it. And it did so in a highly idiosyncratic, vivid, memorable prose. It connected these olfactory creations to the wider culture: fashion, design, music, literature, history. The resulting slim volume, Parfums le guide, captured for the first time, in a way no book on the subject had ever done, the pleasures of great perfume and the disappointments of bad.
It was then that he decided to do as his friends had suggested and write a book about perfume. In 1992, fired from his CNRS job and told to leave France after blowing the whistle on a major scientific fraud, Luca Turin found himself between research jobs, living in his mother's Paris apartment, with time on his hands.
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