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Is this in any way support for the "Vibration theory of olfaction"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration_theory_of_olfaction

Thanks to your link, I discovered this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_theory_of_olfaction

Had no idea it's just a theory. I've lived many years "knowing" that we detect smells due to their shapes.

This paper is the first structure of any odorant receptor-ligand interaction. There's currently no equivalent structure for mammalian odorant receptors to validate the docking theory, but it's likely correct.

I'm dying because there is some mid 1800s theory of smell that uses vibration and harmony, metaphorically, and I can't find it.

But while searching, I came across this: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-21150046

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