Pompous names, bizarre ads, hundreds of new scents a year-the multibillion-dollar business of fragrance has long resisted understanding. At last the first critical-and critically acclaimed-guide to perfume illuminates the mysteries of this secretive industry. Lifelong perfume fanatics Luca Turin (best known as the subject of Chandler Burr's The Emperor of Scent) and Tania San...(展开全部)

卢卡·图林（Luca Turin），生物学家，英国伦敦大学学院生物学博士，嗅觉科学领域的著名学者。一直对嗅觉研究和香水艺术有着浓厚的兴趣，他提出的嗅觉振动理论颠覆了传统的嗅觉形成理论，认为香气成分是通过电子振动将电磁波传达到嗅觉器官，从而产生嗅觉。著有《香水奥秘》（The Secret of Scent）一书。 塔妮娅·桑切茨（Tania Sanchez），卢卡的妻子，也是狂热的香水收集者和香水评鉴专家，发表了数百篇有关香水的评鉴文章。

Turin, a renowned scientist and Sanchez, a longtime perfume critic, are experts in the world of scent. They have spent years sniffing the world's most elegant and beautiful - as well as some truly terrible - perfumes. In this authoritative, one of a kind book, they combine talents and experience to review over 1200 fragrances, separating the divine from the good from the awful....(展开全部)

Turin, a renowned scientist and Sanchez, a longtime perfume critic, are experts in the world of scent. They have spent years sniffing the world's most elegant and beautiful - as well as some truly terrible - perfumes. In this authoritative, one of a kind book, they combine talents and experience to review over 1200 fragrances, separating the divine from the good from the awful....(展开全部)