Chandler Burr

Chandler Burr is the New York Times perfume critic and the author of The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses and A Separate Creation. Burr, who earned a master's in interntional economics and Japan studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, has written for the Atlantic; the New York Times Magazine; US News & World Report, where he was a contributing editor; and the New Yorker. He lives in New York City.