Two researchers at Rockefeller University have put a controversial theory of smell to the sniff test and have found no evidence to support it. They say their study, published in the April issue of ...

Meet Luca Turin, a renegade scientist and perfume critic with an extraordinary sense of smell.' Newsday Funny, irreverent and passionate, The Secret of Scent opens the lid on two worlds - the ...

LEGEND has it that when the royal family tried to flee France disguised as commoners during the revolution, they were betrayed by Marie Antoinette's perfume. As she emerged from their carriage at ...

Prof. Luca Turin is a smell scientist trying to figure out the secrets of the nose. His unorthodox theory met opposition, but his poetic writing on perfume won his wife’s heart. Show more Professor ...

Less a guide in the sense of helping people choose the perfect fragrance than a wide-ranging, critical review of some 1,200 perfumes, both famous and obscure, this comprehensive book is unfailingly ...

A controversial theory of how we smell, which claims that our fine sense of odour depends on quantum mechanics, has been given the thumbs up by a team of physicists. Calculations by researchers at ...

Luca Turin is a scientist who loves perfume. That love led him to wonder how humans smell, a mystery that has not been solved to his satisfaction. Melissa speaks with Chandler Burr, author of a book ...