香りの科学

What Changes When a Fragrance Capsule Has Two Shell Layers?

Fragrance capsule shells must retain their contents and survive until needed. Adding silica to fungal chitosan improved compression strength and fragrance retention in water.

2026.10.20

香りの科学

Is the Concentration in the Vial the Same as the Concentration Reaching the Nose?

Odorant concentrations in a vial and at an olfactory organ differ. Modeling evaporation and airflow helps compare insect responses with concentrations in nature.

2026.10.20

香りの科学

Can Calculations Help Select Materials for an Artificial Nose?

How do electronic states change when odor molecules bind to artificial receptors? MORE-Q provides public quantum-chemical data to support artificial-nose material design.

2026.10.20

香りの科学

Can Color-Changing Films Tell Perfumes Apart?

A study photographs vapor-responsive films with a smartphone to classify perfumes, exploring the sensing principle and its validation from mirror-image molecules to 16 products.

2026.10.20

香りの科学

Can Molecular Connectivity Predict Odor Words?

A study comparing molecular representations and learning methods using descriptions of 8,681 molecules explores how to interpret high accuracy, organize odor terminology, and map scents.

2026.10.20

香りの科学

Can Scents Be Released in Advance to Match What You See?

Making scent arrive as you approach a virtual flower takes more than a fast device. This study combines miniature scent generators with motion prediction to account for scent travel time.

2026.10.20

香りの科学

Do Scents in Videos Come Across as Intended?

Delivering scents in time with video does not ensure that viewers interpret them as intended. A four-scent display highlights both delivery design and the challenge of making coffee smell like coffee.

2026.10.20

香りの科学

Can AI Predict a Scent Without Smelling It?

A Principal Odor Map predicts odor descriptions from molecular structure. Human testing reveals its strengths and limits for unfamiliar molecules.

2026.10.20

香りの科学

Can You Ask AI to Make a Scent More Floral?

An AI used essential-oil data to search for scent formulas. Human tests supported adding floral character, but success varied across odor features.

2026.10.20

香りの科学

What difficulties do people with asthma report with fragranced products?

A US online survey asked people who self-reported asthma or an asthma-like condition about symptoms and everyday difficulties associated with fragranced products. Here is what the survey can, and cannot, tell us.

2026.10.20

香りの科学