Smell loss is approached as a sensory and cultural condition.
Olfaction operates as a primary interface between body, memory, and emotion.
Through this interface, emotional experience is accessed directly, before language and conscious interpretation.
Olfactory perception is progressively desensitised through pollution, synthetic saturation, and cultural neglect.
As smell diminishes, emotional access, intimacy, and embodied memory are gradually weakened alongside it.
This research is structured around a central question:
How can we smell, understand, and preserve emotions before our noses go blind?
Sensory information is treated as biological data.
Through material processes, it can be encoded, preserved, and re-encountered beyond the body.
Liquid matter functions as a sensory archive.
Perfume is approached as a research medium capable of preserving endangered sensory states and enabling their reactivation.
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