His big idea -- Nombre noir : how I got into perfume -- The recipe -- How perfumes are composed -- What perfumes are not about : memory and sex -- What perfumes are about : beauty and intelligence -- A visit to the perfume museum -- Royal Fern -- Why 'natural' does not always mean good -- Why 'chemical' does not always mean bad -- Feynman's answer -- The beginnings of smell : chemical words -- Smell becomes perfume : chemical poems -- Reading the poem line by line -- How molecules are made -- A problem of nomenclature -- The landscape of smell -- A bit of biology -- Locks and keys -- Who turns the key? -- Membrane receptors -- Fishing for receptors -- Seeing atoms -- Evolution as the great locksmith -- The smell alphabet -- The primary smells -- The smell in the mirror -- Some strange clues -- Malcolm Dyson -- His big idea -- Index. The smell of rocket fuel in the morning -- Robert H. Wright -- The revival of vibration -- Searching for the way it works -- New problems -- The fall of vibration -- Mirrors again -- Physics to the rescue -- Jaklevic and Lambe -- Giaever's leap -- The search for ripples -- A close brush with smell -- Clifton Meloan -- John Blaha's observation -- Where I come in : the polarograph -- Protein semiconductors -- The perfume guide -- Funding from the blue -- Revelation in Portugal -- Experiments in a locked room -- The future of fragrance -- Potato crisps and other art forms -- The future tout court -- Index.
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