scent
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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
Post-pandemic, she began frequenting L.A. shops Scent Room, Scent Bar, Le Pink & Co and Beverly Hills Perfumery, befriending sales associates and “nerding out together.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 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
The crew soon gave the harbor the sarcastic name “the Scent Bottle.”
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing scent
The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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