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The Sense That Controls Your Emotions—And Why Tech Is Finally Hacking It | Ep 305 with Siddhartha Kunti Founder of Studio SK
Episode 305
Monday, 9 February, 2026

Daniel interviews Siddhartha Kunti on Founder’s Story to explore whether scent can become a digital medium, like sound or video. Siddhartha shares the moment that sparked his shift from AI surgical planning into olfactory innovation, why smell is uniquely tied to emotion and memory, and what it could unlock in healthcare, education, wellness, and immersive consumer experiences. Key Discussion Points:Siddhartha explains how a Japan distillery tour triggered his obsession with decoding flavor and aroma using AI pattern recognition, leading him to analyze hundreds of beverages and massive molecular datasets. He breaks down why smell has taken so long to digitize, pointing to its complexity, the millions of molecules involved, and the human variability in perception shaped by culture, environment, and biology. He discusses the idea of building an “LLM for scent” by combining molecular data with subjective human labeling across global populations. The conversation expands into real world implications, from COVID’s impact on mental health through smell loss, to Alzheimer’s detection through body odor changes, to scent driven therapy like recreating a loved one’s smell in everyday life. Takeaways:Smell is treated as the forgotten sense in education, yet it silently drives memory, emotion, appetite, attraction, and wellbeing. Digitizing scent requires both objective chemistry and subjective human experience, making AI essential for identifying patterns at scale. The next wave of consumer and healthcare innovation may include scent enhanced experiences in retail, gaming, wellness, and hospitals, not just entertainment. Siddhartha’s work argues that the future of technology is not only smarter, but more human and sensory. Closing Thoughts:This episode reframes scent as a frontier technology, not a novelty, and highlights why the most powerful innovations often start as ideas that sound ridiculous until they suddenly become obvious. Siddhartha’s journey is a reminder that entrepreneurship is sometimes about giving a language to something humanity has always felt, but never fully understood. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.