Headspace technology has also helped make Frederic Malle's floral fragrances among the most beautiful and realistic on the market. One of his most popular fragrances, Carnal Flower, is made using three different Headspace analyses, he said. "The scent of the tuberose flower changes during a 24-hour period," Malle, founder of Editions de Parfums, explained. "It is common sense."

— CNN writes about "innovative new technology" used in the fragrance industry; read more at Futuristic fragrance: New biotech unlocks scents that have never been sniffed.

But they suggest what might happen when headspace capture further develops, when scent scientists combine with technologists to produce new ways of rendering aroma as a record of the world. While it's likely that the future will see more commercial uses for scent -- the scent of Subway bread, exuded onto a city sidewalk; the aroma of coffee, squirted into a bus; the Smell-o-Vision idea, put to marketing purposes -- it's just as likely that scent capture will also find itself in the hands of everyday people.

— Read more at What If You Could Snapchat a Scent? at the Atlantic. Hat tip to Monika!