WE KNOW THE WORLD WITH OUR NOSE!
SUCH IS THE PROCLAMATION… NO……..THE INSISTENCE OF OLFACTORY FACTORY.
SIMPLY PUT OLFACTORY FACTORY IS ABOUT SMELL AND PLACE, A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF SMELL – A SMELL SPELUNKING OF SORTS. IN PARTICULAR OLFACTORY FACTORY IS ABOUT SMELL EXPERIENCE AND THE SMELLS THAT SURROUND YOU AND ME.
This endeavor started with a dream. Yes, my dreams have smells! I discovered this while in the throes of a vivid nightmare in which smell (so to speak) was the main ingredient. When I awoke I was shocked that the smell evaporated with waking consciousness. As with the sleepwalker who inhabits an imaginary landscape which, upon awakening, transforms to mundane reality, so too did I smell things that only existed in my dream. But where did these smells come from? Were they only the residue of my corporeal existence? Was it possible that I could smell things that I myself had not previously smelled in waking life? Perhaps there is a humongous psychic smell soup that we all may sip from time to time……in our dreams……….or otherwise. Needless to say I was inspired.
So in the spirit of homespun science, backyard tinkerers, and good old-fashioned common sense, I decided that the first thing that was needed was a map of all the smells in the world. Needless to say I was daunted by the colossal task and soon realized that the only way to achieve it would be to ask every one of you to share your own smell experiences. I could then know about smells in places that I myself might not be able to know or even to imagine. In other words,
YOU COULD LET ME KNOW WHAT YOUR NOSE KNOWS.
IT IS WITH THESE THOUGHTS IN MIND THAT I AM ASKING YOU TO CONTRIBUTE TO OLFACTORY FACTORY. RESPONSES TO THE SURVEY ARE ANONYMOUS, UNLESS YOU STATE OTHERWISE AND GREATLY APPRECIATED.