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Elixir - A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life (Paperback)
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Elixir - A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life (Paperback)
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Set amidst the unforgettable sights and smells of 18th and 19th
Century Paris, Elixir tells the story of Edouard Laugier and
Auguste Laurent, the son of a perfumer and a fellow aspiring
chemist, who met on the Left Bank while pursuing their passion for
science. Spurned by the scientific establishment of the time, the
pair ended up working out of Edouard's family perfume shop, Laugier
père et fils. By day they prepared the revitalizing elixirs and
rejuvenating eaux it was famous for, but by night using the
ingredients and techniques of the perfumery and the principles of
alchemy, they pursued the secret of life itself. Beautifully
written, , Elixir reads like a novel, brimming with eccentric
characters, experimental daring, and the romance of the Bohemian
salon. It is also the story of a long-standing scientific puzzle.
and the struggle to gain acceptance and recognition for a new way
of thinking about the building blocks of living matter which went
on long after those who discovered it were both dead. Yet it is
also a story of hope and determination. For while the scientific
establishment ignored, and even ridiculed their work at the time,
teen-aged lab assistant Louis Pasteur took it seriously and over
the course of an exceptionally successful career, was able to show
that not only were they correct, but that their work pointed to a
deep, inexplicable asymmetry in the molecular arrangement of living
things. This unexplained asymmetry remains one of science's great
mysteries and an important avenue for examining the origins of life
on Earth.
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