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The new wave of environmentally conscious design is existential and experimental The Falls-of-the-Ohio scurfpea, a leafy plant with clusters of tiny flowers, used to grow on an island in the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky. No one has seen one in the wild since 1881 and botanists presumed it went extinct in the 1920s when a new dam inundated its habitat. But this year, the blooms came back to life?in a way.
In ?Resurrecting the Sublime??an installation now on view in ?Nature?, the Cooper Hewitt?s Design Triennial?a team of artists and scientists genetically engineered a perfume that mimics the scent of the long-gone flower. They analyzed DNA of a dried specimen, isolated the gene sequences that would have likely produced aromatic enzymes, and synthesized the smell molecules.
Chris Gauthier, Cooper Hewitt
In ?Resurrecting the Sublime?, a group of artists and scientists attempted to recreate the smell of extinct flowers.
The perfume they created was intoxicatingly spicy and sweet?like freshly sliced ginger and licorice. In the museum?s gallery, you step inside a black metal box and wait for it to spritz the faintest whisper of the aroma. I wanted to stand inside all day. But there?s a catch: it?s impossible to replicate the flower?s actual smell.
Even though scientists can reproduce the plant?s smell molecules, there?s no way to know how much of each molecule the plant produced. The sweet smell the artists created is a reminder of all...
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