TS: A great perfumer at play in the service of a great idea. **Q: ' What makes a great perfume?' ** LT: The same that makes greatness in all the arts: something that seems both new and inevitable. Perfumes change from the moment you spray them on (the top note) to their last fading traces (the dry down), and you ought to be sure you like the whole thing before you commit to a bottle. Q: ' What is the most important piece of advice for those choosing a scent?' LT: Never buy a perfume within the first hour of trying it. Print review of scents: Blues, Blood Sweat Tears, Stones, Wild is the Wind. I came away with L'Heure Bleue and Shalimar, and I secretly thought them far superior.

Together with his wife, Tania Sanchez, he wrote a book about perfumes, compiled out of copious amount of perfume reviews named Perfumes, the A-Z guide. She wore Guerlain's Samsara, so I decided I would go to Guerlain. Luca Turin is the world’s most famous perfume critic and a scientist.

She applied them far too liberally, and enjoyed them so much in front of me, that in a fit of envy I decided I had to get my own fragrance just to declare my rights in the territory in a very animalistic sort of way. She had five perfume bottles which all smelled very different, and this was a source of endless discussion and fascination in our dormitory. TS: The first person I ever knew who wore perfume properly was my best friend in college. (NOT a Spanish politician.) Joined April 2008. Q: 'What inspired your love of perfume?' LT: Same reason as everybody else: the damn things are beautiful. Co-author of PERFUMES THE GUIDE with Luca Turin. As the authors of probably the most comprehensive handbook to the world of fragrance, Perfumes: The Guide, there are no greater authorities on scent than Luca Turin, the leading scientist in the field, and Tania Sanchez, perfume collector and journalist.

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