SMELL SCAPE OF LIVING ENVIRONMENT

—Characteristics of odor source and smell maps based on questionnaire survey—

Abstract

“Smellscape” is a new point of view in evaluating the living environment. This aim of this study is to investigate the smellscape described by residents to evaluate the living environment in respect of odor. In this paper, questionnaire survey on the odor experience and visitor-panel test on perceived odors were conducted in four districts in Hanshin area, and the smell maps were tried to be drawn for each odor kind. As a result, the characteristics of various kind of odors were made clear and the difference between residents' evaluation and visitors' evaluation were shown.