“It's easy to overlook how important our sense of smell is until it's gone. I created the Pale Shadow to let people take a tiny step into the world of anosmia and better understand the magnitude of scent loss,” shares Dr. Kevin Peterson.

To illustrate the magnitude of scent loss, the Nose at Sfumato, Kevin Peterson, has created The Pale Shadow, a smooth and balanced cocktail that has no aroma. The cocktail, which is essentially a daiquiri stripped of its scent, will be available for purchase at Castalia Cocktails on World Taste & Smell Day. The idea is to give the person sipping the drink a glimpse into life without a sense of smell.

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Sfumato's fragrances are made completely from plants, and our preference for natural ingredients, over the synthetics prevalent in most modern scents, is philosophical. The complexity innate to natural materials offers subtlety and nuance, which we find to be highly desirable. As our fragrances unfold in time and space, they hover at the edge of consciousness and evolve noticeably. Because natural ingredients have been in use for millennia, and olfaction is tied to memory in many strange ways, breathing in Sfumato scents is like a time bomb from pre-history, wafted and whiffed for untold generations, with a shock wave resonating across ten thousand years and a terminal node in your nostrils. We tie together the rich history of scent while raising and exploring questions still unanswered. Through Sfumato we seek the ties between fragrance, science, flavor, and experience.