scent
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Artist Megan Lindeman, who founded Silverlake Scent Club in August 2025, is also bringing people together to explore scent as a shared social experience.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Unlike the current barrage of agentic stylists and shoppers tasked with picking outfits and hunting down deals, the “AI Scent Advisor” must spin everyday language into the intangible and totally nondigital experience of smelling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
A study carried out by the University of Helsinki's DogRisk research group, the University of Eastern Finland and Wise Nose -- Scent Discrimination Association in Finland investigated the threshold for scent detection in dogs.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2024
Scent detection canines searching for a suspect can look past all the other odors they encounter to follow a scent trail left behind by the person they are pursuing.
From Scientific American • Sep. 26, 2023
“My perfumes...have, how do you say...have restorative properties. Scent can keep you young and remind you of younger days.”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Vocabulary lists containing scent
The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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