#scent — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #scent, aggregated by home.social.
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#scent : a distinctive smell
- French: odeur
- Italian: profumo
- Portuguese: cheiro
- Spanish: aroma
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29-Jul-2026
Oil beetle larvae #smell like #flowers to manipulate #bees
The European oil beetle's parasitic larvae emit a floral #scent that attracts wild bees. This allows the larvae to sneak into the bees' nestshttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1138028
#science #ecology #pollinators #chemicalEcology #insects #parasites #beetles
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Asking Eric: I found out they used my photo for this AI nonsense
Dear Eric: I am finding myself more and more fearful of AI. I have family and friends who…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artificialintelligence #advice #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #askingeric #EricThomas #family #perfume #photos #privacy #scent #SocialMedia #Technology #wife
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Transcending #scent: the complex role that #fragrance plays when #changing #gender https://buff.ly/QqDKi1M
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«Sunset in a Lavender Field» (2024)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍Valensole, Provence, France👃 Can you smell the lavender, too?
#lavenderfield #Provence #sunset #nature #photography #landscape #France #Valensole #lavender #flora #landscapephotography #trees #naturephotography #photo #moody #scent #texture #texturetuesday #leica #leicam #Lavendelfeld #Sonnenuntergang #Natur #Fotografie #Landschaft #Frankreich #Lavendel #Landschaftsfotografie #Bäume #Naturfotografie #Foto #stimmungsvoll #Duft
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Sweet Lady Violet is blooming again in France and I will never forget how this plant once helped me to get back one of my lost senses: https://www.cronenburg.net/sweet-lady-violet/ Yes, you can talk to plants and become friends.
#bloomscrolling #florespondence #HesperisMatronalis #wildFlowers #gardening #reciprocity #reconnectWithNature #scent #scentTherapy #hope #senses #NaturePhotography #FlowerPhotography #friends #lazygardening #summervibes #magicInTheMundane #treasure
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#scent : specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it
- French: odeur
- Italian: profumo
- Portuguese: cheiro
- Spanish: aroma
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@Natasha_Jay Intrigued that you have your Signature Fragrance in your profile.
My most fun thing done whilst in tech A DECADE AGO!!?? was a talk + demo on scent to a packed room of coders, many of whom hadn't really thought about it.
https://medium.com/@gusseting/scent-for-coders-cause-there-s-more-to-life-than-lynx-68f07500f9b9
It was such a great icebreaker too - people offering up their arms to each other for feedback for the rest of the day :)
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Hands (nostrils?) on with OVR’s intriguing aroma device for games, OMARA
Immersion reaches a whole new level with the tiny device meant for gaming
https://www.sidequesting.com/2026/04/hands-nostrils-on-with-ovrs-intriguing-aroma-device-for-games-omara/
#Previews #accessory #olfactory #omara #ovr #PaxEast #preview #scent -
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Recreating the smells of history https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/recreating-the-smells-of-the-past @KnowableMag
ne might expect the scent of millennia-old mummified bodies to be off-putting, to say the least. Yet the smell is surprisingly pleasant, “because the ancient Egyptians used so many aromatic compounds, oils and resins that a lot of the original smell still remains,” Strlič says.
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"The team even re-created the scent of Christian 'Hell' as described in 16th century sermons, including notes of sulfur and brimstone and a whiff of 'a million dead dogs.'"
Kaja Šeruga for Knowable Magazine: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/recreating-the-smells-of-the-past
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“To-day I think / Only with scents”*…
We’ve considered before smell, the unsung hero of the senses. Today, Kaja Šeruga explains how scientists using chemistry, archival records, and AI are reviving the aromas of old libraries, mummies and battlefields…
We often learn about the past visually — through oil paintings and sepia photographs, books and buildings, artifacts displayed behind glass. And sometimes we get to touch historical objects or listen to recordings. But rarely do we use our sense of smell — our oldest, most primal way of learning about the environment — to experience the distant past.
Without access to odor, “you lose that intimacy that smell brings to the interaction between us and objects,” saysanalytical chemist Matija Strlič. As lead scientist of the Heritage Science Laboratory at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and previously deputy director of the Institute for Sustainable Heritage at University College London, Strlič has devoted his career to interdisciplinary research in the field of heritage science. Much of his work focused on the preservation and reconstruction of culturally significant scents.
Reconstructed scents can enhance museum and gallery exhibits, says Inger Leemans, a cultural historian at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Smell can provide a more inviting entry point, especially for uninitiated visitors, because there’s far less formalized language for describing smell than for interpreting visual art or displays. Since there’s no “right way” of talking about scent, she says, “your own knowledge is as good as the others’.”
Despite their potential to enrich our understanding of history and art, smells are rarely conserved with the same care as buildings or archaeological artifacts. But a small group of researchers, including Strlič and Leemans, is trying to change that — combining chemistry, ethnography, history and other disciplines to document and preserve olfactory heritage…
Read on for the fascinating details: “Recreating the smells of history,” from @knowablemag.bsky.social.
* Edward Thomas, “Digging“
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As we take a whiff, we might recall that it was on this date in 1924 that Coco Chanel agreed with the Wertheimer brothers Pierre and Paul, directors of the perfume house Bourjois, to create a new corporate entity, Parfums Chanel, Its signature product was Chanel No. 5. She had been selling small quanitites of the scent in her boutique since 1921.
Traditionally, fragrances worn by women had fallen into two basic categories. Respectable women favored the essence of a single garden flower while sexually provocative indolic perfumes heavy with animal musk or jasmine were associated with women of the demi-monde. Chanel sought a new scent that would appeal to the flapper and celebrate the seemingly liberated feminine spirit of the 1920s. Her scent was formulated by chemist and perfumer Ernest Beaux, who designed an unprecedented olfactory architecture, a bouquet of 80 scents whose precious notes were blended with high proportions of aldehydes, organic compounds that carry a crisp, soapy, and floral citrusy scent. In late 1920, when presented with small glass vials containing sample scents numbered 1 to 5 and 20 to 24 for her assessment, she chose the fifth vial. Chanel told Beaux, “I present my dress collections on the fifth of May, the fifth month of the year and so we will let this sample number five keep the name it has already, it will bring good luck.”
The first promotion for Chanel No. 5 appeared in The New York Times on December 16, 1924– a small ad for Parfums Chanel announcing the Chanel line of fragrances available at Bonwit Teller, an upscale department store. The fragrance, of course, become a fave. An Andy Warhol subject and worn by everyone from Marilyn Monroe and Catherine Deneuve to Mad Men’s Peggy Olson, the perfume, is a foundational part of fragrance history… and still sells a bottle every 30 seconds.
#AI #Archaeology #aroma #artificialIntelligence #ChanelNo5 #chemistry #CocoChanel #culture #history #museums #perfume #scent #Science #smell #Technology -
We often learn about the past visually — through oil paintings and sepia photographs, books and buildings, artifacts displayed behind glass. And sometimes we get to touch historical objects or listen to recordings. But rarely do we use our sense of smell — our oldest, most primal way of learning about the environment — to experience the distant past.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/recreating-the-smells-of-the-past
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Hello to everyone out there! 🙋 I post #reviews 🤝about #skincare 🧼& #cosmetics & #perfume & #photos of #nature 🌳
I would like to start with STRAWBERRY #handcream from SADÔER. Very light texture, mild #strawberry #scent, absorbs quickly, silky soft hands after a few seconds. 👍
Are there any fans of #music from #Asia such as #jpop #ayumihamasaki #avex #helloproject here on #mastodon? 🤔 Or #ramen #noodles? 🍜 I'd be delighted. 🥰
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The Guangzhou Xuelei Fragrance Museum takes scent—an invisible and intangible medium—as the starting point of its architectural concept. Guided by principles of openness, collaboration, and sustainability, the museum is conceived not merely as an attractive cultural destination, but as a platform for public engagement with the history of perfumery, traditional craftsmanship, and contemporary technologies
https://www.archdaily.com/1037854/guangzhou-xuelei-fragrance-museum-shenzhen-huahui-design #globalmuseum #architecture #scent
