Luca Turin fans will be happy to hear that his next book, Perfumes: The Guide, is due out from Viking in April 2008. The book will be co-authored with Tania Sanchez, and promises to...
...include reviews of more than 1,200 fragrances, from "Undoubted Masterpieces" to the "Monumentally Awful." (via publishersweekly)
The Guide will feature all-new material (it is not an English translation of Turin's out-of-print Parfums: le Guide) and will be sized to allow readers to carry it along with them while shopping for perfume.
Watch the website Perfumes: The Guide for updates.
About the authors:
For background on Luca Turin, see an interview with Luca Turin, a review of his last book, The Secret of Scent, and a review of Chandler Burr's book about Turin, The Emperor of Scent.
Tania Sanchez is a writer and editor in New York with a "near pathological interest in perfume". She met Turin through his now defunct blog, Perfume Notes, and subsequently helped with the editing of The Secret of Scent. Some of you may know her as Brooklyntbone on the fragrance forum at MakeupAlley.
It will be interesting to see if this spurs any re-issues or spikes in sales. Or will only the cognoscenti (ahem) read it? And why not a translation of Le Guide?
Great news! I look forward to the book. (I wonder if Tania is the same Tania that sometimes comments here? I always love her comments–thoughtful, often funny, and nicely written.)
I assume they aren't translating Le Guide because it is so out of date by now — there have been so many new releases since then. But would think it would get a pretty wide readership, given how much better known Turin is after Emperor of Scent.
Yes, same Tania
Yes, it's me.
Thank you, Angela!
Hmmm, should be interesting, if only because I seem to recall Tommy Girl described by Turin as something of a masterpiece.
Terrific! I'm sure I'll be one of the first in line to buy your book.
Been to check out the Guide website. Oh my, Tania is gorgeous! Had no idea she was writing a book with Luca! Way to go, Tania!
Btw, doesn't Luca remind you of Alan Alda?
Like Angelita above, I can't wait for the book to come out!
YEAH. Can't wait for this one.
Way to go, tbone!
Great news, thank you Robin! So looking forward to this – I had no idea that Tania was OUR Tania!
It seems her and I have very similar taste (and of course, I LOVE Luca) so I can't wait.
I am very curious.
I thought that was Chandler Burr — but I have a terrible memory so could be wrong.
Yes she is, and never thought of it, but he does look like Alan Alda in that picture.
Me too, on both counts!
They both have great taste, so I'm looking forward to it to
Me too!
“Monumentally Awful!” Hee hee! I look forward to this section with criminal glee.
LOL…the way things are going lately with new releases, it should be the longest section.
Yay! Looking forward to this book! I think I'll use it and The Secret of Scent as gifts for a while, inflicting my hobby on others with the excuse of “it's well written!” buwahaha!
LOL–why not, the world could always use a few more perfumistas
He kinda looks like Anthony Hopkins in “Surviving Picasso”.
Yep — I'm looking forward to it, too.
I believe it was an excerpt from the Guide quoted in Burr's book about Turin. But my memory is pathetic too.
Checked the index to EoS, and yes, he calls Tommy Girl “radiant” and “one of the greatest twenty perfumes of all time”.
Looking like Hopkins can't be a bad thing, I should think.
Guessing it will sell a few copies among the fragrance bloggers
What wonderful news!
Hugs!
But a long wait…hope they are both writing away furiously
Definitely! And well-written books should be shared more often.
Would like a translation of Parfums: le Guide, but new stuff is cool too. And excited that Tania is co-writer; I love her reviews.
I would love to see the original translated too, but can't complain — at least we're getting this one in English.