An e-mail encoded with the scent of Paris reached the Museum of Natural History in New York. Originating at Le Laboratoire in Paris, the aromatic message was called oNote. It consisted of a photograph of some macaroons and a glass of champagne and they tagged it via an iPhone application called oSnapp with the elements: #tropical fruits, # cocoa beans and #champaña, which made up its aroma.
The message can only be read / smelled by a device called oPhone, the artifact designed to decode messages with scents attached. For now, users of this application will only be able to decode their messages as of July 12 at the Museum of Natural History in New York, which will have a hotspot for it. But the creators, David Edwards - a Harvard professor - and Rachel Field - a former Harvard student - want to implement hotspots in many more places and countries starting next year. And at some point in the near future, we will all be able to own one of these devices.
Because tagging photos with scent is a skill that very few people have learned, the museum will also teach "olfactory adventures" where a scent expert - a chef, a coffee connoisseur, or a chocolatier, for example - will guide newbies through be able to compose a scent that resembles what they are smelling. The application comes with a vocabulary of "notes" (vegetation, baked bread, jasmine, cedar ...) to allow users to compose more than 300 thousand different scents.
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