About
What's the science behind a sublime perfume? With charm and precision, biophysicist Luca Turin explains the molecular makeup -- and the art -- of a scent.
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Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TED2005
- Speaker
- Luca Turin
- Year
- 2005
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Engineering
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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