Kaorium
Kaorium Fragrance Experience Device by Toshiharu Kurisu - Scentmatic is a winner of the 2025 Silver A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design.
Kaorium is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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This interactive signage system offering a new way to experience and enjoy fragrances through the fusion of scent and language. Utilizing the AI powered technology Kaorium, which visualizes the characteristics of fragrances, users can delve into their personal perceptions of scents and explore descriptive words that resonate with their impressions. This allows them to discover fragrances that perfectly align with their individual sensibilities.
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Kaorium by Toshiharu Kurisu - Scentmatic
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Fragrance Experience Device
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Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Award Winner in 2025.
Silver Winner
Kaorium Fragrance Experience Device
Kaorium is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Kaorium is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Kaorium is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
Winner Designer
Toshiharu Kurisu - Scentmatic
Born in Tokyo in 1979. Graduated from Keio University Graduate School. Joined NTT Docomo Inc. in 2005. For the next 10 years, led projects for location services, voice recognition, and GPS functions for mobile phones and smartphones. "Imadoko Search" and "Shabette Concierge" were huge hits. In 2015, he was seconded to DOCOMO Innovations, Inc. in Silicon Valley, USA. He discovered numerous AI-related startup businesses and successfully collaborated with and invested in NTT Docomo headquarters. After returning to Japan in 2017, he founded SCENTMATIC Inc. He developed "KAORIUM," an AI-based scent language.
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Scentmatic Inc.
Scentmatic was founded in 2019 as a co-creation business design group that uses an AI system to verbalize scents to add "emotional experience value" to anything. Scentmatic is working on the "digitalization of the sense of smell." It is about evolving people's sensibilities through the "aroma experience" of scent and words, bringing innovation to businesses in all industries.
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