Back in Paris, and perhaps for the first time I recognized the smell. Now I try to remember the other cities and come back to me the subway, the kitchens of Beijing, florists New York, the Thames in London, Copenhagen and the spring found this article some time ago on
about SISEL Tolaas.
His art explores the sense of smell-in work with odor molecules and that our nose detects the language we use to describe it. Tolaas begins to train his nose in the early 1990s, collecting bits and jugs - tissue samples, pieces of food, pencils stubs, banana peels - odor characteristics, and archives in a library of smells now composed of 6,723 sealed boxes. She uses these records to train, to narrow gradually as its sharpness and then begins to create landscapes, fragrant without disruption disgust.
Just like magic, she discovers a machine developed by scientists of the leading companies of fragrances and flavors called
headspace technology that can capture any smell in the world and locked in a sealed jar with a paper towel. The material is then recovered olfactory decomposed into a list of different ingredients using spectronomy molecular mass or gas chromatography, and then to reconstruct the artificial smells. Laboratories use this technology in the jungle to capture rare extracts of lotus flower blue or perfumes of unknown varieties of orchids.
Uses of Tools are different: they create a "smell Swedish "For Ikea or Volvo, and is currently working on olfactory identities for Adidas, but also create the smell of battle fields for the German Museum of Military History in Dresden, the smell of money for banks (which she sometimes wears during the business meeting) and also its own smell, extracted, re-create and apply concentrated form: "When I set my
smell of my own sweat and that I apply on my own body's reaction intellectual and emotional that I have of myself is just amazing, I rediscovered as a human being. In contrast, the community spends 1.7 billion U.S. annually in antiperspirant and deodorants to mask odors personal - the West is blind odors it has become taboo and socially repressed. " 
In his essay, Towards a
sensorial urbanism, architect and author Mirko Zardini extends the diagnostic removing odors Tools spaces and cities in which we live.
"Urban planning has long favored urban spatial qualities based exclusively on visual perception. Over all odors were regarded as disruptive, and architecture and urban planning were only sought to marginalize them, cover them and eliminate them. " Tolaas's interest for the odor was then driven to explore the fragrant landscape of different cities, from Paris to Vienna via Kansas City, using stairs, structured interviews and the headspace technology
.
She explains: "Like
society is crossed by barriers symbolic about the smell, the urban environment is also delineated contours olfactory. The different areas of the city smelling products are widely zoning law. These laws are regulated by the type of construction and types of activities that take place in different spaces, and also regulate the distribution and movement of odors. "
Tolaas's work, however, goes beyond the simple mapping or reproduction of an olfactory geography and goes to an investigation of the odor as information - information that, if widely shared and understood could play a key role in communication and navigation.; It seeks the limits of language which is best described could go beyond good and evil and analogies.
For example, in the film
Talking Nose, Tolaas invests Mexico City and its pollution to global notoriety. It begins in 2001 to study the city through the olfactory chemical signals in their environment, visiting over 200 different neighborhoods, systematically repeating his method to identify key odorant of each of them, always using
the headspace technology . It is then these odors on a map linked to vials containing a concentrated the smell of each zone.
Meanwhile, filming Tolaas 2100 Mexico City residents now describe the smell of their neighborhood and its atmosphere. It is then seen talking noses, sniffing and mouths transcribing the invisible city just by words on odor "rusty, old and sweet" pleasant, aromatic, slightly "fragrant flowers and vanilla. Presented together, the smells, the map and videos and words we can perform a discovery of the city in a way cropped, and discover the olfactory landscape of Mexico.
Further work on odors exist and the city including the creation of maps for odorous we introduce interactions between neighborhoods and odors.
The first of them comes back to Jean Noel Hallée who in the 1790s, the vanguard of hygiene, develop a map-based odors in Paris.
Now many things are growing around New York, you can discover
here through the work of Jason Logan for The New York Times and also these
Scratch 'N Sniff NYCmap developed by The Rockefeller University's Vosshall Lab and New York Sub
Culinary Map by Rick Meyerowitz
here. 
We already talk of Lina Bo Bardi, the woman who takes some pleasure in building buildings the most brutal of Brazil (see here and there ). But it also carries very inspired sketches and collages that boards are brought together in this book and available on the thumbnails below. 
Back in Paris, and perhaps for the first time I recognized the smell. Now I try to remember the other cities and come back to me the subway, the kitchens of Beijing, florists New York, the Thames in London, Copenhagen and the spring found this article some time ago on Edible Geography about SISEL Tolaas. 
Just like magic, she discovers a machine developed by scientists of the leading companies of fragrances and flavors called headspace technology that can capture any smell in the world and locked in a sealed jar with a paper towel. The material is then recovered olfactory decomposed into a list of different ingredients using spectronomy molecular mass or gas chromatography, and then to reconstruct the artificial smells. Laboratories use this technology in the jungle to capture rare extracts of lotus flower blue or perfumes of unknown varieties of orchids. 
Uses of Tools are different: they create a "smell Swedish "For Ikea or Volvo, and is currently working on olfactory identities for Adidas, but also create the smell of battle fields for the German Museum of Military History in Dresden, the smell of money for banks (which she sometimes wears during the business meeting) and also its own smell, extracted, re-create and apply concentrated form: "When I set my smell of my own sweat and that I apply on my own body's reaction intellectual and emotional that I have of myself is just amazing, I rediscovered as a human being. In contrast, the community spends 1.7 billion U.S. annually in antiperspirant and deodorants to mask odors personal - the West is blind odors it has become taboo and socially repressed. " 
In his essay, Towards a sensorial urbanism, architect and author Mirko Zardini extends the diagnostic removing odors Tools spaces and cities in which we live. 
