it is quite banal, I know, but it is not easy at all to translate this in english... If I understand... Italian is similar to french, so it would be easy to maintain the play between "a fior di pelle" e "a fior di bellezza"...

I'll keep on thinking about it :-)

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I got you under my skin --> Science got beauty under its skin / Beauty got science under its skin/ (Get the) the beauty of science under your skin

fascination

scientific expertise: the acme of beauty

this is as Luskie said a bit difficult due to the : à which makes the sentence a little lame.
I hope it helps

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or keeping the meaning of the expression à fleur de which means on the surface of/ on a level with, then: the scientific expertise deep in the field of beauty

Although "fleur" hardly means "flower", the flower is there, and where "flower" calls to mind a multitude of petals, "sciences" evokes suggests a multitude of areas of "expertise".




Any way of splitting the points with Jane RUiz (above)