Chandler Burr is one of the most highly regarded perfume experts. For four years (2006-2010) he was a fragrance critic for The New York Times. He is also the author of several books: The Emperor of Scent: A story of Perfume, Obsession and the Last Mystery of the Senses, The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York and Dior: The Perfumes (Ed. Rizzoli), published at the end of last September.
Burr currently heads the New York Department of Olfactory Art, originally founded at the Museum of Art and Design in New York (MAD Museum). In the last year he has been the curator of two other exhibitions, Classic Fragrances from 1370 to 2013 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills (United States) and Hyper-Natural. Perfumes from Design to Art at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (Australia).
