Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting
COLORS TO REPRESENT FRAGRANCE
2019 Volume 43 Issue 3+ Pages 233-
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2019 Volume 43 Issue 3+ Pages 233-
The research is to relate aroma to color. Five aromas of flavor, jasmine, ylang-ylang, white plumeria, lotus, and moke, were adopted. Observer was given moist cotton by aroma and then he/she chose a hue on a hue ring sheet of Munsell Book of Color. 50 subjects participated in the experiment. The results showed that the hue chosen for aromas by largest number of subjects were: 5Y for lotus, 5RP for ylang-ylang, 5GY for moke, 10Y for white plumeria and 5PB for jasmine. Through the experiment we can say that aroma can be represented by colors, but it is desirable to obtain data from more subjects than the present 50 subjects.
