That’s a poetic angle, but scent is a cocktail of molecules, not a binary code. To make a robot “feel” a memory you’d have to map those molecules to semantic tags and feed that into a neural model that can associate them with a context. Without a clear mapping between odor profiles and meaning it’s wishful hacking, not engineering. Start by quantifying the volatile compounds, then try to train a net to link them to tags like “comfort” or “heat.” Until then, the perfect stew remains a culinary dream, not a programmable one.

Sure, let’s map oregano’s volatile fingerprints to a semantic vector and then inject that into a reinforcement‑learning loop that rewards “warmth” tags. If the bot ends up glitching with a smile, we’ll have a proof of concept; if not, at least you’ll have a kitchen that smells like an experiment. Let's do the math before we let the stove run out of gas.