Olores.org Newsletter January 2026

   After the intense and enriching experience of the 24h-hour Marathon on Odour/Odor Management (24h-MOM), we are still enjoying the lasting impressions this important professional meeting has left behind.

   The organizing team is finalizing the individual publication of all presentations, which will be available to the public starting February 1st on the event’s YouTube channel. Don’t forget to subscribe if you don’t want to miss anything! 

   The upcoming Digital Olfaction Society (DOS) World Congress in Tokyo on 3–4 December 2026 marks the 9th edition of these interesting congresses. The call for abstracts has just opened now, so is the time to submit your ideas, research, and projects.

   The Digital Olfaction Society (DOS) organises its World Congress approximately every two years. Since its inception, these biennial conferences have alternated between in-person, hybrid, and online formats to accommodate global participation. The most recent congress took place in 2024 and attracted 90 delegates from 22 countries, presenting an excellent opportunity to stay updated in the topic.

  Thanks to everyone who joined and supported the 24h‑MOM event! The money raised is going straight back to the odour/odor community: we’re launching small travel awards to help students get to odour/odor‑related conferences and workshops during this 2026 and next 2027.

  We’re looking for PhD Students in areas like environmental, chemical or electronic engineering, environmental sciences, chemistry, biotechnology, microbiology, water and waste management, air quality, etc. The events covered by this grant are any conference, congress, workshop or advanced course clearly focused on odours/odors, air quality and odour/odor impact, sensors, chemical olfaction or olfactometry, organised or co‑organised by groups such as:

   InterCinD, the division of Lab Service specializing in interlaboratory testing, is now preparing its annual Olfactometry Proficiency Test, conducted in accordance with the updated EN 13725:2022 standard.

   All European olfactometric laboratories are invited to participate and demonstrate compliance with the required performance criteria.

   ASTM International has published at the end of August the E3412-25, "Standard Guide to Design, Conduct, and Analyze Sensory and Instrumental Data Relationships," as a novel active standard within BOS Volume 14.03 (DOI: 10.1520/E3412-25). This 11-page guide establishes protocols for correlating trained sensory panel ratings with instrumental physicochemical measurements across food/beverage, personal/household care, and consumer products.

   Instrumental and sensory analyses can be integrated in research to explore complementary, confirmatory, or both types of data, commonly supporting product development, quality control processes, and sensory investigations. This new ASTM E3412-25 offers critical considerations for the design, execution, analysis, and interpretation of relationships between analytical sensory evaluations and instrumental measurements.

   The 2027 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Gas Sensing and Artificial Olfaction will bring together leading experts, early-career researchers and industry professionals to discuss the latest advances in gas sensing technologies and artificial olfaction systems.

    The conference will take place from 21 to 26 February 2027 at the Sheraton Fairplex Hotel & Conference Center in Pomona, California (USA). As with other Gordon Research Conferences, the format is designed to encourage open and in-depth scientific discussion in a relaxed and highly interactive environment.​

   On 18 December 2025, the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands in Spain published Decree 185/2025 of 10 December, on the protection of the atmosphere of the Canary Islands. This Decree introduced for the first time in Spain odour limit values at a regional level.

   The Decree 185/2025 of 10 December, on the protection of the atmosphere of the Canary Islands introduces a new regulation on odour pollution, classifying odour-generating activities into three levels with the following odour ambient air target values: 3, 6 and 9 ou_E/m³, measured according to the UNE EN 13725 standard.