Chandler Burr

This true story profiles a scientific genius with eerie powers of smell who uses his gifts to solve one of the body's last secrets: how the nose works.

A True Story of Perfume and Obsession

The Emperor of Scent

No journalist has ever been allowed into the ultrasecretive, highly pressured process of originating a perfume. But Chandler Burr, the New York Times perfume critic, spent a year behind the scenes observing the creation of two major fragrances. Now, writi

A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York

The Perfect Scent

a novel

You or someone like you

Anne is the quiet, clever but generally overlooked wife of a powerful Hollywood producer. Inadvertently, and somewhat to her own surprise, Anne starts a book group for a small group of her husband's colleagues in the movie industry.

You Or Someone Like You

Provides a close-up look at scientific maverick Luca Turin, a man whose remarkable powers of smell and obsession with perfume led to the discovery of how the nose works and how scents are detected. 75,000 first printing.

A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses

The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation

A Separate Creation

“Chandler Burr’s challenging first novel is many things: a glimpse into Hollywood culture, an argument about religious identity, a plea for the necessity of literature. This is a roman that needs no clefs.” —Washington Post New York Magazine calls You or Someone Like You, “The highbrow humanist name-dropping book of the summer.” The remarkable first novel by Chandler Burr, the New York Times scent critic and author of The Perfect Scent, is funny, smart, and provocative—an extraordinarily ambitious work of fiction that succeeds on many different levels. It is a book David Ebershoff, (author of The 19th Wife) enthusiastically recommends “for anyone who defiantly clings to the belief that a book can change our lives.”

A Novel

You or Someone Like You

Emperor of Scent Proof

In August 1991 newspaper headlines around the world announced an amazing discovery: a difference in the brains of heterosexuals and homosexuals. In 1993 American scientists claimed they had discovered a gay gene. Sexual orientation, it now seems, is not a choice, not a disease nor a faddish whim, but a fundamental biological part of who we are. Chandler Burr's ground-breaking work is the first and only comprehensive look at this revolutionary new science, biology on the farthest edges of current scientific practice. A Separate Creation: How Biology Makes Us Gay takes us into laboratories where researchers are using incredible technologies to discover what makes us straight or gay. From studies of male rats that ovulate and a species of African animal in which the female has a penis, to the political fire-storm surrounding the claim of a gay gene, from a new silicon chip made of human DNA that could discern the sexual orientation of the foetus in a woman's womb, to a working theory that homosexuality is a genetic/bacterial condition that could be 'cured' with an antibiotic, Burr explores this fascinating and often ethically ambiguous territory with clarity and an objective eye.

Terri Weifenbach

Vincent Leret

An exquisite exploration of the relationship between Christian Dior and perfumes, celebrating sixty-five years of inspiration, innovation, and style.

Dior Perfumes

For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Suskind's novel "Perfume," but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true.

A Story Of Perfume, Obsession, And The Last Mystery Of The Senses

Emperor Of Perfume

New York Times scent critic Chandler Burr spent a year behind the scenes of the perfume industry -- one of the most secretive, glamorous, and lucrative in all the realm of luxury goods. The result is a remarkable work of reporting on both art and business, a nuanced portrait of two dissimilar people, Jean-Claude Ellena and Sarah Jessica Parker, who had one thing in common: their quest to create the perfect scent. Ellena was hired by Hermes in Paris to create a fragrance that will rival Chanel No. 5, the perfume that has, for 90 years, dominated sales around the globe. In New York, Coty enlists Parker, a star and style icon, to create a celebrity perfume. She is ¿obsessed with scent,¿ and every aspect of the perfume will bear her artistic imprint.

Chandler Burr

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