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Chandler Burr

New York Times Scent Critic

Chandler Burr appears in the following:

The Mystery of Smell

Friday, October 13, 2006

Kurt Andersen and the writer Chandler Burr explore the allure and mystery that smell has for us. Burr explains how physicist Luca Turin solved the scientific mystery of how smell works. Burr believes that we should build museums for the nose.

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Scratch and Sniff

Friday, October 13, 2006

Studio 360 smells really really good. Kurt Andersen and Chandler Burr, the New York Times' new and first-ever perfume critic, explore the mysteries behind our sense of smell. And the director Douglas McGrath talks about his new Truman Capote biopic, Infamous, and how he's dealing with the movie's inevitable comparisons to last year's Capote.

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