He holds a PhD in biophysics from the University of London and was for ten years a tenured staff member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Luca Turin was born in 1953 and educated in France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Come back fifteen minutes later and breathe in: that's the radiance. To get a good sense of how the perfume will smell to other people as you walk past, try spraying a test strip and leaving it in the room while you step out for a bit. Smell no more than five scents per day on paper strips and try on only the best one or two, to keep your nose reliable. Noses tune out, which is why you can smell your friends' homes but not your own. Keep a cheap, possibly extremely trashy paperback on hand, so you can store strips between pages to keep them separate. We recommend top-to-bottom tests on skin and on paper, since some scents that disappoint on the heat of skin may shine on your shirtsleeve.īring a pen to write names on paper test strips, so you're not in anguish hours later, trying to recall which is the third scent from the left that transports you to Shangri-La. Something you love at the counter you may loathe by the parking lot. Perfumes usually unfold in three (often very different) stages: the sparkling first few minutes are the fragrance's top note, followed by its true personality, known as the heart note, and ending with the base note, aka the drydown, hours later. Here they offer some humble advice on finding something worth loving among the stinkers. Beautifully designed and elegantly illustrated, this book will be the perfect gift for collectors and anyone who's ever had an interest in the fascinating subject of perfume.įor Perfumes: The Guide, Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez tested nearly 1,500 fragrances-some glorious, some foul.

Perfumes: The Guide is an authoritative, one-of-a-kind book that will do for fragrance what Robert Parker's books have done for wine. Should I change my fragrance each season?.

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Perfumes features introductions to women's and men's fragrances and an informative 'frequently asked questions' section including: Through witty, irreverent, and illuminating prose, the reviews in Perfumes not only provide consumers with an essential guide to shopping for fragrance, but also make for a unique reading experience. In Perfumes: The Guide, they combine their talents and experience to review more than twelve hundred fragrances, separating the divine from the good from the monumentally awful. Turin, a renowned scientist, and Sanchez, a longtime perfume critic, have spent years sniffing the world's most elegant and beautiful-as well as some truly terrible-perfumes. Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez are experts in the world of scent. The first book of its kind: a definitive guide to the world of perfume

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