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#RT @LRB: ‘The biophysicist Luca Turin’ - as quoted by John Lanchester in his piece on microchips - also happens to be one of the world's leading perfume writers. In 2010, Bee Wilson (@kitchenbee) reviewed his book with Tania Sanchez, ‘Perfumes: The A-Z… https://t.co/kSkbC7krK3
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From Luca Turin's 'The Secret of Scent' "Some functional perfumes are true works of art: I would pay real money for a bottle of the 1972 fabric softener Stergene, which smelled phenomenal."
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@alephlove lots of media nowadays for watches—hodinkee, watchbox studios, speedmaster101 and specialty forums/ sites. for perfumes, try basenotes, the forum. Claire Vukcevic has written some good guides there. Luca Turin an Tania Sanchez's book Perfumes is a good guide too.