Trisenx, a company in Savannah, Georgia, has released a device called a Scent Dome that will allow users to smell products sold online, or create and email their own scents. Read more about that and other innovations in scent technology at BusinessWeek Online.
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that sounds so fascinating! i always wondered how a scent could be digitalized… =)
I have a feeling that using this thing regularly could run up some serious bills…you'd have to replace the scent cartridges, right? And it sounds to me like it is a long way away from actually duplicating a commercial perfume.
I am sure you are right and it would be really expensive! And I wonder how fine tuned it would actually be? I think it'd be neat to try out a couple times, but I think only for things we couldn't find in the store ourselves, huh?
I have a feeling the technology won't really duplicate a perfume yet…I mean, you have to have all the ingredients loaded yourself, and how can you have all the ingredients? I don't see how it can do more than approximate a smell. But someday….
Oh my… I can't imagine how much it'd cost to re-fill! And if you wanted premium e.o.'s instead of synthetics? LOL!
I do wonder though, what the first machines would be like though! And wouldn't that mean that the companies would have to give away their secret recipes?