Luca Turin on perfume etc.

Luca Turin on perfume etc.

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Beirut

Jul 27, 2026
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The Saint Georges Hotel in 1950

I was born in Beirut. This turned out to have long-term effects, such as being described as a Lebanese-American scientist on Wikipedia (I am in fact Italian), and being grilled every time upon landing in Tel-Aviv, typically by a young woman in uniform, for possible terrorist intent1.

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