Chandler Burr

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Chandler Burr


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Chandler Burr is the New York Times scent critic and author of The Perfect Scent, The Emperor of Scent, and A Separate Creation. He has written for The Atlantic and The New Yorker. He lives in New York City.

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The Emperor of Scent: A Tru...

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The Perfect Scent: A Year I...

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You or Someone Like You

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A Separate Creation: The Se...

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Dior: The Perfumes

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The Perfect Scent

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“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.”
Chandler Burr, The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession

“I'd said to them that when we read fiction, we pour our own paricular store of emotions - say, the sense of loss we feel for those disappeared from our lives - into the characters set before us. We take the few words with which the writer sketches these characters, the thing he said, the pain she felt, where they were, and our own emotional stockpile magically creates people. As the human eye fleshes out the pixilated image. Fictional characters are highly sophiticated Rorschach blots, and we, along with their author, are their authors. When you read a fictional character, you too are creating her.”
Chandler Burr, You or Someone Like You

“All molecules pulse with vibrations. They shimmer and wiggle and sing with the vibrations of the electron strings that hold them together, which means molecules are, oddly enough, a sort of musical instrument.”
Chandler Burr, The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession

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