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Do they taste buttery when you lick them?
I maintain that croissant's are just sticks of butter someone accidentally spilled flour on.
Unfortunately, WebSmell-o-Vision has not yet been unilaterally pushed by the dudes at Google to do this news justice, but as a croissant connaisseur I would have at least appreciated a webp of the thing instead of some random archive image. It’s a stamp, for christ’s sake.

There is a pic here and it’s quite nice imo: https://www.wopa-plus.com/en/stamps/product/&pid=105515

I'm holding out for a <smell> HTML tag.
Here I was misreading the article that it was croissant-shaped, not scented, until I saw a picture.
I was initially reading that it was a croissant with a stamp scent and I was confused...
I can almost smell breakfast…
Has there ever been any sort of even-remotely-successful smell-o-vision? We can recreate input for many of our other senses - music, visuals, touch - so why not smell?
Back in the 1980s, there was a movie that was released where you could purchase a scratch and sniff card. It was dubbed “Odorama”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyester_(film)

As the movie played, a number would flash on the screen, you’d scratch that number and smell the spot on the card.

Ish. Our level of technology is limited to mixing a small set of base compounds on demand. That gives a range of possible scents about as small as you'd think. The problem is that your sense of smell is a complex chemical detector. There are a lot of unique molecules that you can detect.

We'd have to synthesize molecules on demand to get any reasonable range of scents, basically.

It's kinda odd that the first sense that evolution gave us will be the last we can record/playback using our devices.
Try and find a good one in France. Harder than you’d think
> Try and find a good one in France. Harder than you’d think

In Paris? Sure. You're competing with tourists. Almost any rural bakery? No. You'd have to try to find something shitty.

La Poste might have invented the first non-vegan stamps in history.

I hope they don't turn rancid.

Given the normal process for making glue I wouldn't be so certain.
I am holding off for the red wine flavoured one.
Now this is the future I’ve been waiting for
I wish we had croussants here in teh states (tiny speciality shops not withstanding). They are a rare. instead we get a weird butter flavored croissant shaped bread with nothing of the texture or aroma of the real thing.
La Frenchtech at its peak.
How are they going to discourage roaches from eating your mail?
Better than the time that a utility company mailed out a gas-scented flyer to teach people what a gas leak smelled like. 911 was inundated with gas leak calls.

(Search is so fucking useless these days that I can't find anything about it, but pretty sure it was in New York.)

Or is it that they made all croissants stamp-scented instead?
Wonderful, I want one! Say what you will, the French have good taste.

Naturally, this also poses some serious questions:

- Will this lead to more croissants being eaten? Everyone within reach of such a stamp could be affected. Will bakeries have to brace themselves?

- How will this affect the stamp collector scene? Will they flip upside down to get one of these? Will they eat more croissants?

Only time can tell!

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I want one! Seriously, this should be a thing with more scents.
> artisan croissants [...] “emblem of French gastronomy,”

and yet italian cornetti are better grin

I'm quite sad that here in Belgium companies now often use stamps that aren't actual little bits of paper anymore but ink stamps on the envelope.

I hope that doesn't spread. I have a generational stamp collection that I'd love to keep expanding.

In The Netherlands you can buy digital "stamps" online. They're nine characters you write in a square pattern on the envelope.
Does the IRS use stamps too?
Also stamp-scented croissants?
Next up... "French officials baffled as to why raccoons are attacking mail trucks"