Luca Turin
Born
in Beirut, Lebanon
January 01, 1953
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Perfumes: The Guide
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25 editions
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2008
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The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
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2006
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Perfumes: The Guide
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2 editions
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2018
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The Little Book of Perfumes: The Hundred Classics
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10 editions
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2011
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Folio Columns 2003-2014
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3 editions
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2015
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PERFUMES: PARFUMS LE GUIDE 1994
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Perfumes: The Guide
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2008
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Das kleine Buch der gro?en Parfums: Die einhundert Klassiker
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"Smell of the North Pole" a Five Star Rating on a large World Perfume Guide 1437
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“Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.”
― Perfumes: The Guide
― Perfumes: The Guide
“Chic, is first, when you don't have to prove you have money, either because you have a lot and it doesn't matter or because you don't have any and it doesn't matter. Chic is not aspirational. Chic is the most impossible thing to define. Luxury is a humorless thing, largely, and when humor happens in luxury it happens involuntarily. Chic is all about humor. Which means chic is about intelligence. And there has to be oddness-- most luxury is conformist, and chic cannot be. Chic must be polite and not incommode others, but within that it can be as weird as it wants.”
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“Tea Rose (Perfumer's Workshop) **** green rose $
Composed in 1972, Tea Rose was the first fragrance signed by the great Annie Buzantian (Pleasures), and was in many ways the first niche fragrance: the Perfumer's Workshop did nothing but fragrances, had a small range, was fairly hard to find, and had a devoted following. Tea Rose was and is a rose soliflore that illustrates how complex a composition must be before it can actually claim to smell of rose. The rose it depicts is huge, painted in watercolor, and has the species name written below it in cursive. LT”
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Composed in 1972, Tea Rose was the first fragrance signed by the great Annie Buzantian (Pleasures), and was in many ways the first niche fragrance: the Perfumer's Workshop did nothing but fragrances, had a small range, was fairly hard to find, and had a devoted following. Tea Rose was and is a rose soliflore that illustrates how complex a composition must be before it can actually claim to smell of rose. The rose it depicts is huge, painted in watercolor, and has the species name written below it in cursive. LT”
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