Emperor Of Evacuation

The Emperor of Scent written by Chandler Burr explores the life of Luca Turin who is a perfume and smell enthusiast. Luca grew up traveling the world with his parents. Born in Lebanon with Italian nationality Luca was very cultured from a young age. He learned to read at the age of four, and as a child learned spanish after listening to his maid. He was exposed to classical music such as Mozart and Beethoven. While in school Lucca became very bored with the curriculum and he misbehaved often, because of this he was allowed to skip a grade which didn’t help much. On his spare time, Lucca would visit museums such as the Palais la Découvert (the Paris Science Museum) where he eventually knew the museum by heart. At the age of seven, Luca’s mother noticed how he would analyze smell. They were at the beach on one of their rented summer homes and Luca was analyzing the tyme that grew wild nearby. By the age of 28 Luca had completed his Ph. D. in physiology at the University College London. After he graduated he moved to southern France to research and this is where he began to love perfume. Turin began working at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) where he held a tenured position and he then …show more content…
The majority of the second half of the book the Burr goes into the detail of Turin trying to get one of his papers on the vibration theory published in the journal Nature. It turned out that since his theory was so controversial no one liked it and no one wanted to read it. The peer review alone for Turin’s paper caused quite the uproar between Turin and the journal, and after a long period of waiting and frustration, Turin's paper was rejected by nature (go figure). Although his paper was rejected, Turin went on to do a BBC special called A Code in the Nose in which Turin was able to discuss his