Book Titles.

We went through numerous possible titles. My personal favorite for a while was "The Heretic of the Senses," which my friend Nicole thought up in a bar in SoHo, but some of my friends said "People won't know what a 'heretic' is...." My agent, Eric Simonoff, favored "A New Theory of Smell" in the sense that, as he noted, it says exactly what the book is about, but he acknowledged its downside, a) it misses the entire perfume half of everything and b) it's boring. Luca suggested "Music Smells Green" since, if his Vibration theory is right, we see color vibrations, smell scent vibrations, and hear sound vibrations, and several of my friends liked it, but it was a bit too abstract. "The Perfume Genius" was too.... something for Scott, who doesn't like the word "genius." Luca then suggested "Smelling Secret Harmonies," and which he adapted from Shakespeare. A bit artsy. I came up with "The Emperor of Smell," and Scott modified it to "The Emperor of Scent."