Previously successful projects of this type were refining my senses of smell and temperature.
I think it would be awesome to simultaneously refine my sense of smell and my knowledge of biochemistry to the point where I could identify the actual molecules in the air. So I could detect a scent and think to myself “hey, that’s a flavonoid.”
So I could detect a scent and think to myself “hey, that’s a flavonoid.”
Extremely similar chemical compounds can have very different smells to humans and very different compounds can have very similar smells. So while this may be possible, I’m not sure that human smell senses are good enough to do this in general.
I think it would be awesome to simultaneously refine my sense of smell and my knowledge of biochemistry to the point where I could identify the actual molecules in the air. So I could detect a scent and think to myself “hey, that’s a flavonoid.”
Extremely similar chemical compounds can have very different smells to humans and very different compounds can have very similar smells. So while this may be possible, I’m not sure that human smell senses are good enough to do this in general.