“A brilliant, feisty scientist at the center of a nasty, back-stabbing, utterly absorbing, cliff-hanging scramble for the Nobel Prize. The Emperor of Scent is a quirky, wonderful book.”

                 -John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

“The Emperor of Scent is a gem of a book - a suspense story about a man of super-human powers, justifiably arrogant, dangerously steeped in hubris, and a real-life hero. I tumbled into this story, immediately engrossed, and fell in love with Luca Turin, irreverent, witty, imaginative, determined, elitist without a trace of snobbery, and above all a creative genius... [Burr] weaves perfect asides...into this incredible cautionary tale for all who assume the scientific world exists in a sterile vacuum of indisputable test results.”

                  -Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight