Coolandy, I agreed with aeiou228 that those aroma makers will never turn up as they will pay even more than the prize in case of losing. In order to complete your experiment with valid outcome, you may consider to carry out the experiment by yourself or engaging a team with the witnesses from third/neutral parties, buying those aromas in the market especially one that maker sounds loudest with the fund you contributed.
I suggest your design of experiment could divide into few groups of samples, each group carries samples with similar condition, the objective is to test its Repeatability, which will make result more accurate and convincing. Each group you must locate at same area in the same or different BH, each group you can enter into BH in different timing perhaps every subsequent month.

Group1
NP1. - No aroma
NP2. - aroma A
NP3. - aroma B
NP4. - aroma C
NP5. - aroma D...

Group 2
NP1. - No aroma
NP2. - aroma A
NP3. - aroma B
NP4. - aroma C
NP5. - aroma D...

And so on

Your great effort will be beneficial to this industry.

Looks like we are moving forward. I will try my best to come up with a little write up on objectives of test, methodology etc.

Please send me as many ideas as possible. Even if the idea is against this test, I will hold no grudge against you.

So aroma promoters, please participate.

WW, you wanna be moderator? I would be most happy to have you on board. In fact, we need somebody to hold the deposit in trust so that nobody can accuse me of bulls@@@ting.

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Added on December 25, 2010, 6:40 pmThe beauty of this test is if the aroma fails, there is no penalty!

if the aroma fails, there is no penalty!

bmanz,

How much deposit do u think must come from aroma promoter and will be forfeited if the aroma fails?

If my memory served me well, it was about 2 or 3 years back When Love Potion formulation was discovered by me. Some of them asked me for the formula of Love Potion but I refused to give it them...

Aroma Challenge.

I am thinking of conducting an experiment on the effectiveness of aromas in the market and I am willing to award RM5000.00 to the successful one....

The wild swiftlets have been subjected to thousands of tests for diseases  but none are positive to date. So far so good.

Will man be the final saviour or destroyer of the swiftlets by the introduction of captive breeding?