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Will Smell Ever Come to Smartphones?


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Cyrano "digital scent speaker"

The Cyrano is a "digital scent speaker" that produces olfactory playlists, or "smelltracks," which users can control using a smartphone app.

Credit: Wayne E. Chinnock

Two years ago, at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, I witnessed David Edwards receive what he claimed was the world's first transatlantic scent message—a soupçon of champagne and passion-fruit macarons, dispatched from Paris by the perfumer Christophe Laudamiel.

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