Just chemistry of aroma

The smell carries no less information than sound or image, taste or touch. The smell can cause the most powerful emotions, the richest associative series, seduce or push away forever ... Science that studies smells still cannot unravel how it works.
The book of an American aromatic marketing specialist talks about where the smell begins, about chemical compositions that turn the smell into perfume, about the raw materials for perfume, natural and artificial, plant and animal - and even about explosives, beyond which a century and a half ago Perfumers hunted. You will learn about new molecules with completely new smells, of which they make up nothing similar, because perfume is very rarely revealed by the source of his inspiration, finally, about the role of chemists and physicists played by them in science of aromas.
The author illustrates the story with examples of aromas that made a revolutionary revolution in the world of perfume created by the best "noses" over the past century.
The book is addressed to both specialists in the field of aromas and everyone who is interested in the riddles of the sense of smell