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.
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?
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.
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.
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.)
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 73.1 ms ] threadThere is a pic here and it’s quite nice imo: https://www.wopa-plus.com/en/stamps/product/&pid=105515
https://www.laposte.fr/pp/c/timbre-croissant-au-beurre
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.
We'd have to synthesize molecules on demand to get any reasonable range of scents, basically.
In Paris? Sure. You're competing with tourists. Almost any rural bakery? No. You'd have to try to find something shitty.
I hope they don't turn rancid.
(Search is so fucking useless these days that I can't find anything about it, but pretty sure it was in New York.)
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!
and yet italian cornetti are better grin
I hope that doesn't spread. I have a generational stamp collection that I'd love to keep expanding.
It is now quite hard to find a really good croissant there.
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Here's the first search result with the actual picture of the stamp: https://www.thelocal.fr/20251009/french-post-office-rolls-ou...