The perfumer’s trained nose could pick up a faint scent in the glass bowls, and declared acuta’s smell to be “quite sophisticated,” Simun said. It contained musk, green, and floral elements, as well as a sweet, almost tropical note at the end. Working with the perfumer, Simun split the scent into two elements—a fragrance, to be delivered to the nostrils using her smell headset, and a flavor, to be consumed as a cocktail. Together, she hoped, the two would mingle in a participant’s olfactory system to create a fleeting perception of Agalinis acuta’s scent as never before experienced by humans.
— Artist Miriam Simun gets help from IFF to capture the scent of an almost-extinct flower. Read more at Agalinis Acuta, Phantom Flower at The New Yorker.
Ooh, thanks Robin. I love this!
Me too…would love to smell it!
This makes me think of a really cool dream I had about a week ago. I dreamt that Diptyque had created a high end fragrance bong, so that you could inhale their special fragrances into your lungs and have an entire system sensory experience with a fragrance. I was invited by a very sophisticated and nameless perfumista to “inhale” a Phylosikos hit! It felt and smelled wonderful!!! In my dream, I was like, “Wow, that is amazing.” 🙂
That is a cool dream! My dreams are never that awesome! I would definitely try that if it were a thing.
Wow. And it’s probably in production…made me think of that chocolate inhaler thing that was around for awhile…
What an amazing dream! Maybe you invent the “fragrance bong”–I’d buy one!