Google has its own perfume—or at least one team of the company’s researchers does. Crafted under the guidance of expert French perfumers, the mixture has notes of vanilla, jasmine, melon, and strawberries. “It wasn’t half bad,” says Alex Wiltschko, who keeps a vial of the perfume in his kitchen.
— Read more in Now the Machines Are Learning How to Smell at Wired.
Damned by faint praise?
Possibly.
One step closer to Maximum Overdrive.
No kidding.
LOL’d when I read that spearmint and caraway “smell’ the same to a machine. 😀 though it would be amazing if google can crack the code somehow.