Luca Turin was born in 1953 and educated in France, Italy and the UK He holds a PhD in biophysics from the University of London and was for 10 years a tenured staff member of the French CNRS. He is the author of many scientific publications as well as a much-praised perfume guide. For seven years he was Lecturer in Biophysics at UCL. He now designs scent molecules for a US startup company, Flexitral, using the scientific process descibed in this book. He is the subject of an award-winning BBC Horizon documentary and a biography, The Emperor of Scent.
"'Meet Luca Turin, a renegade scientist and perfume critic with an extraordinary sense of smell.' Newsday"
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