Hallo!
It is time for me to start a new odor research. I thought
it was a shame to create a new blog every time I start a new project so I'm
going to pack my smell tasks all under "dailyodors".
Dailyodors was the name I gave to the previous work
which consisted in how odor affects our personal live, but in general terms what interests
me the most is to research the ways how odor affects our visual
perception.
For the next project I am working on,
I would like to extract odors from the 4th elements in the earth: air, water,
fire and earth.
Step by step, I will start with
earth. Probably as many of you out there, I'm captivated by the smell of earth
after the rain, also, not just earth, but how any pavement smells like at that
moment. It seems this smell is a mixture of ozone, the spores of the bacteria actinomycetes and
other vegetal components we might find in the soil. This smell has a beautiful
name, many people called it Petrichor.
"Petrichor (//) is the scent of rain on dry earth, or the scent of dust after rain. The word is constructed from Greek, petros, meaning stone + ichor, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. It is defined as "the distinctive scent which accompanies the first rain after a long warm dry spell"".
Extracted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor
