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Memoraphy is an aromatherapy device that can produce perfume to alleviate mood issues

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Among all the senses, smell is probably the one that I don’t really pay attention to (or may be the least popular for ordinary folks). But it is actually the one that is most associated with memory. We associate specific smells with memories of our childhood or with certain episodes in our lives. It is also something that can help you manage your emotions as evidenced by the popularity of aromatherapy. This concept for one such product is pretty interesting especially if your nose is sensitive to smells and moods.

Designer Name: Kanglee Lee, Jiwon Lee, Jeongmin Ham

Memoraphy, a combination of the words memory and therapy, is a concept for a device that can “prescribe” a scent for you depending on your mood and need. It looks like one of those laboratory devices with different pods or a coffee machine but instead of dispensing liquids or caffeine, you get different fragrances that can help you uplift your mood, relax, or whatever your emotional need is that can be helped by smelling something. You can choose to use it as a diffuser or to produce a perfume or a plaster air freshener.

There are six types of main fragrances available: bergamot (for depression, anxiety, and apparently, UTI), rose (to give a positive mood), orange (to relieve stress and enhance taste bud), sandalwood (relieves nervous tension and anxiety), chamomile (helps relax the mind, counter insomnia), claysage (mood stabilisation). You start off the process by inputting into the machine your current mood and drawing or writing to get a “diagnosis” for the right scent. Then you choose the output type and the machine will then create the product for you.

This is a pretty interesting product to have, at least on paper. There may be some feasibility questions if it gets turned into an actual product since there are different outputs for it but that’s a problem for another day. If you’re a believer in aromatherapy, you’d probably want something like this in your home to help lighten your mood, help you fall asleep, and even combat other mental health issues.

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A Step Towards Sustainable Personal Care With Upcycled Deodorant

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In today’s world, where sustainability is at the forefront of consumer consciousness, innovative solutions that challenge the status quo are celebrated. One such groundbreaking product is Refresh, a sustainable and refillable deodorant that redefines personal care standards while making a significant impact on environmental conservation.

Designer: Elanur Aslan

Refresh takes sustainability to new heights by upcycling waste plastics to create its packaging. This ingenious approach breathes new life into discarded materials, giving them a renewed purpose and diverting them from landfills. By doing so, Refresh not only reduces the burden on our environment but also sets a precedent for responsible consumption and production.

One of the standout features of Refresh is its refillable design. The inner chamber of the deodorant is easily replaceable, allowing users to extend the life of the packaging. This simple yet effective innovation curtails the need for new plastic manufacturing, which is a significant contributor to plastic waste in our oceans and landfills. By embracing this refillable concept, Refresh encourages consumers to be part of the solution to the plastic pollution problem.

The ergonomic design of Refresh ensures effortless application, making it a user-friendly choice for those seeking a sustainable alternative to conventional deodorants. Beyond functionality, Refresh’s departure from traditional deodorant packaging exemplifies a commitment to forward-thinking sustainability. It sets a new standard for personal care products, emphasizing that sustainability should be a cornerstone of our daily routines.

In a world where sustainability is a shared responsibility, Refresh is a beacon of hope. By diverting plastics from landfills, this innovative product conserves valuable resources and reduces energy consumption. It embodies the principles of a circular economy, where materials are repurposed and given a new lease on life. Recycling waste plastics through high-pressure compression not only lessens the harm to our environment but also reduces the demand for new plastic production, ultimately reducing our carbon footprint.

Refresh encourages us to reshape today for a sustainable tomorrow. By choosing to refill and reuse, we contribute to a cleaner and more responsible future. The availability of deodorant refills ensures that the product remains effective for the long term while promoting responsible consumer behaviour.

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However, Refresh is not just about sustainability; it’s also about aesthetics and functionality. Its sleek lines, innovative use of recycled materials, and ergonomic shape come together to create a harmonious blend of form and function. When you choose Refresh, you’re not only making a statement about your commitment to the environment, but you’re also embracing a product that aligns with your discerning sense of style.

In conclusion, Refresh is a game-changer in the personal care industry. It sets a new standard for sustainability by upcycling waste plastics, promoting refill and reuse, and offering a product that combines aesthetics and functionality. By choosing Refresh, you’re not only making a responsible choice for today but also investing in a cleaner, more sustainable future. It’s a reminder that sustainability should be at the heart of every product we use and every choice we make.

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These perfume toppings for ice-cream are designed to enhance their smell and taste

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Ice cream is one of mankind’s best inventions, at least according to my standards. Whether it’s peak summer or I’m at my most stressed, having a spoonful of this flavored, cold stuff is enough to make my mood a little better. I also love to experiment with different flavors, toppings, and additions to my frozen scoop although just eating vanilla can sometimes be enough. But what I haven’t really thought much about is smelling ice cream.

Designer: Salt & Straw and Imaginary Authors

American ice cream chain Salt & Straw has partnered with perfumery Imaginary Authors to create three fragrances that can also serve as ice cream toppings. It may be weird to think of perfume and eating ice cream in the same breath but it is an interesting concept all the same. In reality, you cannot smell ice cream on its own since the chemicals that trigger smell are frozen at these low temperatures. You can only technically smell the fragrant ingredients once it has melted in your mouth.

So they have come up with three fragrances which you can smell on its own and then add them to your ice cream if you feel like enhancing the flavor. Think of it like a wine or coffee tasting where smelling before drinking actually enhances the flavor and experience. Only this time, with these perfumes, you spray it and smell it before spraying it onto your ice cream. They say that the way you smell your food is actually critical to how you eat it even though it’s something that we don’t consciously do.

The three culinary flavors they’ll be launching are: A Cloud of Cocoa with Ecuadorian chocolate, malted milkshake, and Japanese whisky notes; A Swoon of Citrus that includes the scents of key lime pie, lychee, and Italian lemon grove; and A Plume of Blooms which combines the scents of jasmine, honeysuckle, and wildflowers. There are also travel-size samplers with all three flavors. Spraying them onto different ice cream flavors will give you a fully immersive experience with scents and flavors all blending in your mouth.

These perfumes/toppings will be making their debut on National Ice Cream Day on July 17 Salt & Straw scoop shops. Let’s see if this unique product will actually become a hit with ice cream lovers or those who want to experiment with their desert.

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Miss the smell of gasoline?? Ford just launched a fuel-scented perfume specially for EV owners

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In a bid to out-weird Elon Musk’s Tesla Tequila, Ford just announced a perfume that vaguely smells like gasoline, designed for EV owners who miss the wafting aroma of fossil fuels. The perfume even comes in a gas-pump-shaped bottle, and is rather cleverly named Mach-Eau, a play on the word “Macho” by combining Ford’s Mach-E with the French term ‘Eau’, often used to describe perfumes.

As Ford gradually makes its complete transition to electric vehicles (with the Mustang Mach-E and the electric F150 being announced in the past two years), they conducted a survey to find out what their customers missed most about petrol-powered cars. The results showed that “one in five drivers said the smell of petrol is what they’d miss most when swapping to an electric vehicle, with almost 70% claiming they would miss the smell of petrol to some degree.” Ford also claimed in a press release that Petrol ranked as a more popular scent than both wine and cheese, and almost identically to the smell of new books. Sounds weird, but also sounds about right, because strangely enough, I REALLY like the smell of petrol too… but enough to douse myself in a perfume that smells like it? Well, maybe not.

The company, however, made it clear as they unveiled their fragrance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, that Mach-Eau doesn’t, in fact, smell entirely like gasoline, but rather draws on certain qualities of its aroma. Developed in partnership with renowned fragrance consultancy, Olfiction, “[The] Mach-Eau is designed to please the nose of any wearer; a high-end fragrance that fuses smoky accords, aspects of rubber and even an ‘animal’ element to give a nod to the Mustang heritage”, Ford mentioned in the press release. Be that as it may, the company hasn’t really put the Mach-Eau up for sale yet. Maybe it’ll come included with Ford’s next set of cars? Who ‘nose’. (get it? nose? knows?)

Designer: Pia Long of Olfiction (Client: Ford)

Developed with leading fragrance experts, Mach-Eau evokes traditional automotive scents

Issey Miyake’s perfume-bottle design language, channeled into wristwatches

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There’s certainly an element of luxury that overlaps the perfume and watch industry. They both are objects of desire and symbols of high-society. They even often have the same points of inspiration, with the liberal use of faceted glass, chrome, and gemstones if you’re looking to really up the ante… but there’s obviously a distinction between a watch and a perfume bottle. Lee Huang’s conceptual watch created for Issey Miyake blurs that distinction.

The conceptual Issey Miyake watch cleverly uses glass as a material for the watch body, as opposed to stainless steel. Borrowing the fluted design texture from most top-of-the-line fragrance bottle designs, the watch’s thick glass body comes with a unique textured rim that reflects light just the way a fancy looking glass bottle does. The glass body (and the dial cover too) come with a high refractive index that creates enough parallax to give it the appeal of a perfume bottle, along with just a slight tinge of frosting that actually helps cut the internal reflections to retain the watch’s minimalist appeal. In keeping with the timepiece’s clean, almost zen-ike design, a plain white leather strap suspends the crystalesque time-telling beauty to your wrist. Looks beautiful, doesn’t it?!

Designer: Lee Huang

Google researchers taught an AI to recognize smells

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For decades, perfumers and scientists have struggled to predict the relationship between a molecule's structure and its scent. While scientists can look at a wavelength of light and identify what color it is, when it comes to scents, scientists can't...

Lockheed Martin Really Made a Space Perfume

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We don’t really know space really smells like, but Lockheed Martin has taken a stab at it with their Vector Space Perfume. The aerospace and defense contractor announced the release of the fragrance on April 1 as an obvious April Fools’ Day prank.

The supposedly fake perfume had an official commercial and everything, starring the company’s in-house astronaut Tony Antonelli, to promote it. However, it turns out that the company actually produced a limited batch of Vector and made it available to the public. It was available as a sample on the Lockheed Martin website, but sadly at this point, they are all gone.

If any of you bought this scent, let us know what it smells like. Hopefully, it isn’t based on the ISS on a day when the astronauts had Mexican food. I have no idea what kind of smell they would associate with space. The smell of recycling urine? I have no idea. I’m intrigued and also a little scared to find out. Maybe they will make it available again so the rest of us can find out what this scent is.

[via Luxury Launches via Mike Shouts]

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Fiat 500 Perfume Doesn’t Have That New Car Smell

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Yes, gearheads, FIAT 500 Perfume is a thing. It doesn’t smell like new car or even a car in general, but it does come in a very cool perfume bottle which looks like the front end of the iconic FIAT 500, so it should look cool on your desk right next to your bottle of Sex Panther.

It’s pretty cool as far as perfume bottles go, and comes in both men’s and women’s fragrances. So if it doesn’t smell like a FIAT, what does it smell like? The ladies’ version is described as “an authentic explosion of joy, which combines the sparkling and contemporary touch of pink pepper with the woody notes of white musk, in a fresh and bold mix, with an unmistakable style”. The men’s version has “a game of bold and sparkling contrasts: the vibrant mix of pink pepper and Timur pepper combines with fresh and sensual notes of grapefruit and patchouli, for an original and captivating result.” In other words, put this stuff on, and you won’t stink.

It comes in two sizes: 50 ML and 100 ML (1.69 and 3.38 fluid ounces). The ladies’ version comes in white inspired by the pearl white FIAT 500 and the men’s comes in green, inspired by the limited edition military green FIAT that was launched in collaboration with Italian fashion label Diesel. Get it at the Perfume Holding online store.

[via Metro via Mike Shouts]

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