A guide for noses is created in Japan!
An unusual web-site was created in the internet by the members of a Japanese Perfume-Lovers’ Club (Nioi-bu). Not only does the new service provide the visitors with detailed descriptions of various scents, it also gives the exact coordinates of smelling objects on the world map.
The club opened in December 2008 and today includes about 200 active members. According to the creators of the project, their task is to give the internet the only thing it lacked before that – the sense of smell.
Though the web-site exists only in its Japanese version, there is no doubt, that this fruitful idea will find wide support in other countries.
There are many services in the net, that are dedicated to historical places, places of interest and sights, marked on the map. However, this site is absolutely unique. Those, who love fresh and simple scents, will learn from it, where to find fresh linen odorant, the scents of greenery or fresh soap. Gourmets will learn all about the smells of exotic dishes. And extreme-lovers, will find the smells of dung, old woman or dirty socks.
Some descriptions are not only concrete, but at the same time very poetic, like, for example, “the smell of verbena soap near a nunnery in Paris”. Some offer very complicated cocktails, like “incense, fresh greenery, mud and wild dogs” – a perfume description of the capital of Thailand. Today the portal contains 160 coordinates of different smells, starting from the smell of “rice, boiling in a pot” and ending with “long-time worn socks”. For example, in a Japanese town of Fujisava one can easily find the scent of manure, and in the place called Kamakura it is easy to meet cats with the worst mouth smell.
The projects works on the principles of openness – anyone can join it, in case he wants. A newly found scent is included into the database and marked with a flag on Google Maps. Today there are more than 160 scents marked in this way, and their amount is growing steadily.
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