What is Smell Gate?

Smell Gate is a state of the art experimental smell technology that brings a fourth wall-breaking sense to movies, plays, and comedy alike. Built from little more than cups, tubing, and a rig assembled backstage, it releases and fires precisely timed scents into a live audience — cedarwood and eggnog cued to a musical’s Christmas set, evolving fragrances tracking a performer’s memory and desire down a highway, banana laffy taffy and Santal 33 shot straight into an improv crowd.

Where smell-o-vision once promised spectacle, Smell Gate treats scent as narrative: a live, disappearing signal that lets an audience feel a story arrive before they can name it.