Abstract
1, 500 profile data for 30 well-known perfumes on the market analized, and the following results were obtained.
1) Odor imprssion of perfumes can be expressed by three factors, “Heaviness”, “Worthiness”, and “Uniqueness”.
2) There are clear relationships between the odor impressions and the odor types, and the similar type of odor make a group in the odor-describing space.
A computer program was developed to punch out three factor scores and five “Proximate Perfumes” When the profile data was entered (proximate perfumes refer to the ones which give impressions similar to the sample odor).
Several sets of data, including the imaginative odor, were entered to the computer in order to test the practical application of this systems.
