The Annette Green Perfume Museum: Fashion Makes Scents Exhibition

Space Age

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President John F. Kennedy challenged NASA in 1961 to fly to the moon in opposition to Russia’s galaxy-leap of orbiting Yuri Gagarin around Earth. ‘Utopia’ and ‘Unisex’ became catch-words as society prepared for a future out-of-this-world. Pop-culture would define fashionable living through TV’s “The Jetsons” and “My Favorite Martian”, and everything from dress to packaging became disposable.

Textile engineering moved out of the fields of nature and into the laboratories of science. Petrochemicals such as Nylon, Acetate and Polyester are now fashion world staples. Amazingly, space orbiting in a biometric bodysuit is only a prototype away thanks to a team of NanoBioscientists currently constructing a wardrobe that can detect chemical attacks, deliver drugs to the wearer – even perfume the body!

The fragrance industry now employs state-of-the-art technology that could be scripted into an episode of ‘Star Trek’. Called ‘ScentTrek’, this marvel computer's clear plastic globe captures scent by surrounding an item for 24 hours, takings measurements every 2 hours, using 12 filters - without touching the object. Such Space Age robotics can record previously undetected smells…even space dust!