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Industry: scent and fragrance
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Today, we bring you uplifting economic news from the fragrance and scent industry.
In response to the dramatic global loss of people's sense of smell—their ability to distinguish scents and experience emotions through smell—young companies have taken a stand. They are reactivating, protecting, and refining their customers' olfactory perception in surprising ways.
Products that merely mask the stench of industrial facilities are already finding no buyers. The market for artificial air fresheners in hotels, supermarkets, and households has collapsed dramatically. People are refusing to purchase cleaning products, body lotions, or food items that they perceive as "dulling the sense of smell."
The company Scent Range offers an unusual selection of scent samples that help their customers practice recognizing smells as emotional triggers. Scent samples that make people sensitive to grief, curiosity, and security are especially popular.
The company Smellshit offers unfiltered fun with access to disgusting smells. Their products, featuring various forms of body odor, are a huge hit.
Smellotours has found great demand in their scent exploration tours in forests and cities. The highlight is the "Scent Guessing Excursion 'Who lives here?'" through personal living spaces of people from various cultures, age groups, and professions.
The company Smellisafe trains safety experts against olfactory dangers. Environmental toxins are detected using unconventional methods. Graduates of this olfactory detective training can identify any masked scent and pinpoint the underlying danger to human life. People work hand in hand with animals and plants. The Human, Hyena, Mandrake Nose Trio is a best-seller at Smellisafe.
Olfactory barriers are the specialty of Hedgerow, the Indo-Spanish newcomer in the market. Concrete and barbed-wire walls that ruin landscapes are a thing of the past. Hedgerow uses scent protection shields to deter attackers, causing them nausea, shortness of breath, and even fainting. Their company secret is that they also know how to temporarily suspend or completely remove a scent barrier. Their main customers are currently guardians of rare, natural medicines.
The company Fresh Scents, which brings together scientists and artists, searches for scent memories that capture the sensation and decision of "this is fresh!" They document descriptions of freshness—whether in objects, places, with people, or in thoughts—in speech protocols and scent samples from individuals. Already, 2 million people have immortalized themselves in the Fresh Scents database, with these special markers to remember their personality.
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