System and method for scent perception measurements and for construction of a scent database

Abstract

An electronic sensing unit is used to receive an odorant sample and generate an electronic signature characterizing the sample received therein via a guiding unit that guides a first portion of the sample into an electronic sampling unit and a second portion of the sample towards an outlet. A control unit is used to receive data indicative of the signature generated by the sensing unit and data from user(s) indicative of olfactive descriptors characterizing the sample to which the users are exposed, thereby enabling creation of a data record including first and second characterizing data corresponding to the same sample. The database includes such data records, each being associated with a specific odorant sample, which may then be used to characterise, formulate, and/or create, a desired scent based on comparison of an electric signature generated for the scent and data records which signatures comply with some best compliance criterion.

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