This Artist Used Over 6,500 Scents To Recreate The Smell Of 35 World Cities

(via Atlas Obscura)“Every city has an identity like we humans do. And every city is unique smell-wise,” explains Tolaas, a half-Norwegian, half-Icelandic expatriate artist with background in chemistry, linguistics, mathematics, and visual arts. “The odor depends on things like climate, geography, demography etc. Inside the city, smells differs from neighborhood to neighborhood.