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Luca Turin (born 20 November 1953) is a biophysicist and writer with a long-standing interest in bioelectronics, ... Turin, Luca (2015). Folio Columns 2003-2014 ...
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."
The vibration theory of smell proposes that a molecule's smell character is due to its vibrational frequency in the infrared range. This controversial theory is an alternative to the more widely accepted docking theory of olfaction (formerly termed the shape theory of olfaction), which proposes that a molecule's smell character is due to a range of weak non-covalent interactions between its ...
Rive Gauche is a women's perfume launched by Yves Saint Laurent in 1971.. The fragrance was composed in 1969 by perfumers Jacques Polge and Michael Hy at Roure. [1] It was reformulated by Daniela Andrier and Jacques Hy at Givaudan in 2003. [2]
The result was what Luca Turin called '[...]the only fluff-free fragrance contest in the world [11] '. There are two artisan category winners out of ten finalists, two independent category winners out of ten finalists, and one Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent winner out of five finalists per year.
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The Osmothèque (from Greek osmē "scent" patterned on French bibliothèque "library") is the world's largest scent archive, a leading international research institution tracing the history of perfumery, based in Versailles with conference centers in New York City and Paris.
Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez's Perfumes: The Guide praised many of Becker's creations, including a five-star rating for Beyond Paradise (2004, a “masterful portrait of a gorgeously fresh, fictional, ideal tropical flower”), [4] Beyond Paradise for Men, [5] and Tommy Girl (1996), calling the latter one of the most important of all time ...