Originally published at: Artist and genetic engineers re-create the imagined scents of long-extinct flowers | Boing Boing
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They should try to genetically re-create silphium. They think it was in the fennel family, so we kinda know the scent already, but the contraceptive properties would go over like gangbusters today, which is why it went extinct in Roman times.
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