# The Scent of Desire: Book Review

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_Book review_  
Miner, E.J., and Shackelford, T.K. (2008). [All thorns, no rose: A well-intentioned but misguided book about smell. A review of Rachel Herz, _The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell_.](http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep06283288.pdf)_Evolutionary Psychology_, 6(2): 283-288.

Personally, I don’t think reviewer’s who are outside the field can give an accurate representation of her work. They want her to be more scientific, but they give the impression that they don’t understand the science of olfaction anymore than Herz understands evolutionary psychology.

For contrast, see:  
Book Review by Mark Sergeant  
The Scent of Eros: Mysteries of Odor in Human Sexuality. By James Vaughn Kohl and Robert T. Francoeur. iUniverse Inc. 2002.

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