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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."
Turin was born in Beirut, Lebanon on 20 November 1953 into an Italian-Argentinian family, and raised in France, Italy and Switzerland. His father, Duccio Turin, was a UN diplomat and chief architect of the Palestinian refugee camps, [1] and his mother, Adela Turin (born Mandelli), is an art historian, designer, and award-winning children's author. [2]
In Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez's Perfumes: The A-Z Guide (2010), Turin pinpoints L'Artisan Parfumeur, founded 1976, as "the first niche firm", [5] and in the series’ second volume, names the opening of New York City perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas in 1995 as marking "the earliest days of the Cambrian Explosion of Niche." [6]
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]
A fragrance vlogger holds up a bottle of Fracas in 2017. Fracas is a 1948 perfume created by French perfumer Germaine Cellier for French fashion designer Robert Piguet. [1] It is based on the scent of tuberose, a pungent small white flower (unrelated to rose).
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 ...
Gilbert wrote that Burr's biography of geneticist and Perfumes: The Guide author Luca Turin was "giddy and overwrought ... a triumphalist account of an unproven alternate theory". Gilbert founded the Cranial One Corporation, developing a rapid smell test—the Cranial I Quick Sniff—for use by physicians and consumer research companies.
In December 2010 he founded the Department of Olfactory Art at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. In December 2010, Burr left The New York Times to curate the exhibition "The Art of Scent: 1889-2011" at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, [9] which allowed visitors to experience seminal works by some of the greatest scent artists of the late-19th, 20th and early-21st ...