odorivector

English

Etymology

odor (“smell”) + vector (“bearer”)

Noun

odorivector (plural odorivectors)

1. A material that emits an odor.
   • 1964 July, Andrew Dravnieks, “Physicochemical basis of olfaction”, in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, volume 116, number 2:

     It is generally accepted that odorivector molecules must reach chemosensors physically; liaison by radiation through distance has never been proved and seems highly unlikely.

   • 1981, Guy Ankerl, Experimental Sociology of Architecture‎^[1]:

     So, on the one hand, the odorivector gives the observer cues about polysensory space, that is if all the mechanical envelopes, viz., acoustic and haptic, coincide and so constitute, with the osmotic, a hermetic space; and he interprets the cues by 'associative concatenation'.