Taxonomy of Odors
Smell-masking in contemporary products can be distracting and disturbing. Odors dominate our food and product space but we don’t have the language or the attention to identify them. Our limited vocabulary for odors is evidence of how we organize the physical world. The subtlety and potency of our olfactory landscape is revealed in this taxonomy. This web of odors uncovers linkages that you may or may not be able perceive. The complexity of comparison increases as you move down the odor pairings presented.
2009
Natural and fabricated odors, plastic bottles, wood
