Osmo Accelerates Fragrance Innovation Through AI, Molecular Discovery and Scalable 'Olfactory Intelligence' Platform

Jun 1st, 2026

"As digital olfaction technology continues to advance, we believe it will significantly expand the palette of safe and sustainable fragrance ingredients available to perfumers, while making fragrance development faster and more responsible overall," says Wiltschko.

Osmo

Read the full 2026 Fragrance Leaders & Newsmakers issue here.

A few recent milestones illustrate how we’re building the future of scent.

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Read the full 2026 Fragrance Leaders & Newsmakers issue here.

Latest full-year fiscal results: undisclosed
2026 series B funding: $70 million
Total capital raised: $130 million
Headquarters: Elizabeth, New Jersey

Democratizing Fragrance Creation and Unlocking Molecular Discovery

One of the biggest opportunities we see is expanding access to fragrance creation. Historically, developing a custom scent required years of training, specialized industry connections and significant investment, which meant only the largest brands could participate. With Olfactory Intelligence, we’re democratizing fragrance design so that emerging brands, creators and companies across industries can develop signature scents.

Another major opportunity is helping brands move faster and differentiate through proprietary scent molecules. By combining large-scale molecular data with machine learning, we can screen billions of potential molecules and identify new ingredients that are safe, sustainable and unique. This allows brands to develop truly differentiated scents while reducing development timelines and costs.

The Shift from Trial-and-Error to Predictive, Personalized Design

The fragrance industry is going through a significant shift as technology and data begin to play a larger role in how scents are created and evaluated. Traditional fragrance development has relied heavily on trial-and-error and manual experimentation. Today, AI and machine learning are enabling a more predictive approach to fragrance design.

We’re also seeing increased demand for customization and differentiation. Brands want scents that are uniquely their own and consumers are looking for more meaningful sensory experiences that connect to emotion and memory. That’s pushing the industry toward tools that allow for more creative exploration while still maintaining speed and scalability.

Another major shift is the growing emphasis on safety and sustainability in product ingredients. Research is finding that some of the ingredients used in products are unhealthy and even toxic. Advances in data science and predictive modeling now make it possible to evaluate thousands of potential molecules digitally before they’re ever produced, to find safer and more sustainable alternatives to existing ingredients and dramatically change how the industry can innovate responsibly.

Scaling AI-Driven Scent Innovation with Funding, Massive Data Platform and New Smart Factory

A few recent milestones illustrate how we’re building the future of scent.

Earlier this year we closed a $70 million Series B funding round, bringing total capital raised to $130 million. That investment is helping us accelerate research and expand our olfactory technology platform.
We’re continuing to scale our scientific and technical capabilities. Osmo has built the industry’s largest structured scent data library and is using Olfactory Intelligence to screen billions of molecules to predict how they will smell, perform and behave before any physical molecule is created.
In addition, our collaboration with the Institute for In Vitro Sciences demonstrated how AI can transform safety testing for fragrance ingredients. The study showed that AI models trained on validated human-relevant lab data could generate safety insights that would have historically required large-scale animal testing.
Finally, we are investing heavily in infrastructure to support that growth. In 2026, Osmo will open a 60,000-square-foot manufacturing headquarters in Elizabeth, New Jersey that integrates robotics, fragrance development and AI-powered manufacturing. That facility will allow us to scale from concept to production more quickly and support a much broader ecosystem of partners.

Together, these efforts reflect our strategy of combining data, machine learning and human perfumery expertise to build a new foundation for fragrance creation.

AI Becomes Perfumery’s Power Tool, Expanding Creative Possibilities and Accelerating Discovery

We see AI as a tool for expanding what’s possible for fragrance and gives perfumers a new tool in their kit.

Fragrance creation involves a huge amount of experimentation and manual work. Olfactory Intelligence automates many of the repetitive and data-heavy tasks involved in fragrance development, which allows perfumers to spend more time on the creative aspects of their work.

AI also enables us to explore an enormous chemical space that would be impossible to navigate through traditional methods. By screening billions of molecules computationally, we can predict scent characteristics, safety and performance before synthesis. This dramatically increases the efficiency of discovery and opens the door to entirely new fragrance ingredients.

In that sense, AI functions more like a powerful creative tool—similar to how power tools transformed woodworking. It enhances the capabilities of perfumers rather than replacing them.

AI and Predictive Science Power the Next Wave of Sustainable, Animal-Free Fragrance Innovation

The next phase of sustainability in fragrance will come from better data and predictive science.

AI allows us to assess fragrance molecules virtually before they are ever created in the lab, helping us identify ingredients that meet high standards for safety, sustainability and performance much earlier in the process. This process will continue to become faster and more precise over time.

Our work with the Institute for In Vitro Sciences is one example of how this approach can transform safety testing. By training AI models on validated human-relevant lab data rather than animal testing data, we can evaluate the safety of thousands of chemicals without relying on traditional animal testing methods.

As digital olfaction technology continues to advance, we believe it will significantly expand the palette of safe and sustainable fragrance ingredients available to perfumers, while making fragrance development faster and more responsible overall. For the market, this will result in more diverse and personalized scents for consumers and more brands, from any industry, will be able to access and employ scent as part of their brand communication strategy.