Word: scent
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...beware, my diligent students! Before feverishly cramming the libraries this reading period, be prepared to spend long hours studying sans food and drink. Sneaking in snicker bars and soda might not be possible as our favorite library L,amont, takes security measures to the extreme. If ever the sweet scent of food permeates the air, security personnel will be immediately signaled to patrol the library aisles, purging any nutritive substances in sight...
...shimmering heat of June is burdened, not alone with the scent of roses, but also with the phantoms of floating platitudes, as benedictions fall from the platform of each school and college in the country upon a graduating class. Thousands of schoolboys learn afresh the significance of educo. Numberless local sages stand for a verbose hour in loco parentis. The inserts of the press are pock-marked with notes and news-boxes remarking who has damned and who has praised flaming youth. Incipient summer is not time to evaluate these ebullitions. One can but say that, in mass, they sound...
...dishwasher in her home in Pleasanton, Calif., works just fine, but Kimberly Wendt no longer uses it. For months, she has been rapturously washing her dishes by hand, enveloped by the rich scent of lavender, lemon verbena or geranium wafting from her sudsy sink. She spritzes her countertops and windows with fragranced products, while her laundry is perfumed with lavender...
...easy to lead consumers around by their noses? "Nothing changes your consciousness quicker than a smell," says Mandy Aftelier, a natural perfumer and consultant based in Berkeley, Calif., and the author of Essence and Alchemy: A Book of Perfume. "Putting scent in your life, even over mundane tasks, is a good thing to do. It improves the quality of your life in small ways, and those small ways add up." Studies have shown that inhaling pleasant natural scents can affect brain activity, alleviating stress and lifting mood...
...grand master of bespoke scents is the House of Creed in Paris, which has been creating custom-made perfume for over 240 years. It takes perfumer Olivier Creed between three and six months to develop a personal scent, although consultations can be conducted by phone and test fragrances may be flown out to the client. Prices start from $3,300 per liter for eau de cologne and $7,300 per liter for eau de parfum. Sound reasonable? Well, there's a small catch?the minimum order is 10 L. But look at it this way: it'll last...