Institute of Innovative Research, 
Tokyo Institute of Technology.

2022.04.04

Press Release

Scientists Artificially Recreate Smells Successfully Using an Olfactory Display

A technology to generate a variety of scents by blending multiple odor components using mass spectra and multidimensional data analysis has been developed by Tokyo Tech researchers. They showed that the scents could be reproduced using a multicomponent olfactory display. Twenty odor components were extracted using the mass spectra of 185 essential oils. The sensory test for seven typical essential oils revealed that their scents could be successfully replicated.