First Transatlantic "Scent Message" Sends Smell of Paris To New York

The aroma was, well, undeniably smelly.

At 11:31 EDT, an email message encoded with the scent of Paris, winged its way across the ether to land in the inbox of a Harvard professor waiting eagerly in a skull-littered basement room in New York's American Museum of Natural History.
The sense of smell is driven by a powerful and intricate biological system that has evolved over millions of years.

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