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Turin was born in Beirut, Lebanon on 20 November 1953 into an Italian-Argentinian family, and raised in France, Italy and Switzerland. His father, Duccio Turin, was a UN diplomat and chief architect of the Palestinian refugee camps, [1] and his mother, Adela Turin (born Mandelli), is an art historian, designer, and award-winning children's author. [2]
The Guide received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, which said, “The book brings [the authors'] exquisite connoisseurship to life in a contagious manner.Their passion for a few scents and their outrage at the others' failings make for entry after entry of hilarious, catty comments interspersed with occasional erudite, eloquent disquisitions."
A 1996 paper by Luca Turin revived the theory by proposing a mechanism, speculating that the G-protein-coupled receptors discovered by Linda Buck and Richard Axel were actually measuring molecular vibrations using inelastic electron tunneling as Turin claimed, rather than responding to molecular keys fitting molecular locks, working by shape alone.
Perfume critic Luca Turin considered Rive Gauche as the "best floral aldehydic of all time". It is a classic aldehyde with a floral heart and woody base notes. [5]
Given its many ingredients, Joy does not smell like a specific flower. According to Luca Turin, "the whole point of its formula was to achieve the platonic idea of a flower, not one particular earthly manifestation." [5] The original bottle, designed by French architect and artisan Louis Süe, was designed to have a simple, classical feel. [6]
Dave Turin, a gold miner featured in the Gold Rush television series; George L. Turin (1930-2014) U.S. computer scientist; John J. Turin (1913-1973), American physicist; Luca Turin (b. 1953), biophysicist and proponent of the vibration theory of olfaction; Mark Turin (b. 1973), linguistic anthropologist; Niels Turin Nielsen (1887-1964) Danish ...
With Coty's fragrance no longer produced, Mitsouko is today considered by Luca Turin, a well-known perfume critic and reviewer, to be a reference fragrance in the chypre olfactive family. [19] Eau de Fleurs de Cédrat: 1920 This classic cologne foregrounds the notes of the citron fruit, with lemon, neroli, herbs and other notes. Shalimar: 1925
A fragrance vlogger holds up a bottle of Fracas in 2017. Fracas is a 1948 perfume created by French perfumer Germaine Cellier for French fashion designer Robert Piguet. [1] It is based on the scent of tuberose, a pungent small white flower (unrelated to rose).