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The Music of Perfume
Ambitus, pitch-class entropy, and keeping it simple
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Avery Gilbert
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Two Ways of Smelling
If you focus on molecules you'll miss the whole scent
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Avery Gilbert
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At the Museum of Scent
A visit with Mandy Aftel and her new book
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Avery Gilbert
My Dinner with Hannibal
Savoring aromatic literature
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Avery Gilbert
Sniffing Between the Lines
An English Lit dissertation blows the roof off of X
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New Family of Cannabis Aroma Molecules Identified
Chemists pin the tail on the skunky
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Avery Gilbert
Let’s Go to a Conference!
How to navigate five days of smell and taste science in Iceland
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Avery Gilbert
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Mind-raped by Mark Zuckerberg and the Borg
Generative AI repackages other people’s creativity
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Avery Gilbert
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Multiple Maniacs
Three Days in L.A.
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Avery Gilbert
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum
Your piney scent delights us
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Avery Gilbert
À la recherche du vols perdu
The New York to Paris run back in the day
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Avery Gilbert
A Smell Walk on the Mild Side
Missing the forest for the trees
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Avery Gilbert
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