Alex Wiltschko

It's like getting to base camp, but it's still so, so powerful and so vivid in my memory.

So the team had been working for a while on the technology and the processes to do this.

And one day they said, Hey, look, I think we're ready.

And they sat me down in the morning in front of 30 amber vials.

And inside of these vials, blind to the entire team, been set up by somebody else, blind to the entire scent teleportation team, inside of it were fruits and vegetables and some flowers.

And so they didn't know what I was going to choose.

But these were real things from the grocery store.

And I think what I picked was a banana.

And it was a tropical fruit.

I think it was a papaya.

And this is just by smell.

And then I verified it later.

And then a plum.

And we put each three of these through the teleportation process, which is you show that scent to a device that was specially tuned and set up to analyze the molecular content of that smell.

The data was uploaded to the cloud and analyzed by the AI systems that we built.

And really it's AI for scent.

We call that olfactory intelligence or OI.

And then it was reprinted on our smell printer, which we had custom programs to work with the fragrance ingredients that we see in the real world.

And the first smell that came off was plum.

And it was absolutely engrossing and transporting that I was smelling this blotter dipped into a vial of clear liquid.