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Common sense

Posted by Robin on 30 March 2017 Leave a Comment

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.

Rendering aroma as a record of the world

Posted by Robin on 15 July 2013 2 Comments

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!

The scent of fear, part two

Posted by Robin on 25 April 2008 24 Comments

“Headspace” (a term borrowed from the beat generation, where it connoted psychological privacy) is the technical term for the area surrounding an object or person in which their odour can be analysed. But odour detection is not limited to the discovery of drugs and explosives. Scientists and electronic nose entrepreneurs claim headspace analysis can reveal everything from the substances people have been in contact with and their emotional state, to their personal identity and ethnic origin…

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Better than the real thing

Posted by Robin on 15 May 2007 4 Comments

Sorry, but Gertrude Stein got it wrong. In perfumery, a rose is hardly ever just a rose. The challenge facing perfumers is not so much to mimic nature as to go one better.

— Another article about the "naturals vs synthetics" debate, this one in the UK Times Online.

To capture the fragrance of a flower without having to kill it, IFF uses a kind of "smell camera" that detects and absorbs the particles that surround a plant to record its scent. The information is then translated into a formula with the help of chromatography and spectrometry, techniques that help identify the many components that make up a flower's scent.

— From The Smell Factory, in Time Magazine.

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