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Science 11 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5788, pp. 763 - 764
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131937
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
On Smell and Scientific Practice

Miriam Solomon

The Secret of Scent
Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
by Luca Turin
Faber and Faber, London, 2006. 217 pp. £12.99. ISBN 0-571-21537-8. Forthcoming from Ecco, New York. ISBN 0-06-113383-3.
A biophysicist and perfume critic describes his obsession with olfaction and his controversial theory that we smell primarily by detecting the vibrational frequency of molecules.
The reviewer is in the Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. E-mail: msolomon{at}temple.edu

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