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...where I saw my favorite team: the Atlanta Braves. At spring training, everyone’s in shades, and everyone’s all smiles. And then there are the smells. You won’t catch a whiff of cocoa butter or grapeseed oil here: the most pervasive scent at the ballpark, among a whole menu of them—grilling dogs, gasoline, freshly cut grass—is the one that wafts from industrial-size helpings of Coppertone sunblock, not the fancy stuff. What is this, the beach? No, it’s baseball...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: World Serious? Get a Life. | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...WHIFF French perfumer Francis Kurkdjian based M.A. Sillage de la Reine (the Queen's wake) on M.A.'s tastes. The scent is "like the flutter of a light dress." Translation: a mix including jasmine, rose, cedar and gray amber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Queen Forever | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...preferences and professional assessments. He says that helps clients avoid having individual quirks (a hatred of apples caused by having to eat one every day after school or a resentment of violets because they call to mind being ditched on prom night) cloud the search for a suitable corporate scent. Each smelling session was limited to just a couple of samples, since the nose's ability to discern differences declines as choices rise. Toward the end of the process the Sony execs had nearly settled on a blend of orange and vanilla, with a hint of cedarwood added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scents and Sensibility | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...retailers say she misinterprets their intent. "We're not trying to manipulate people," responds Sony's Belich. "It's subtle, and it's mainly about making sure people have a pleasant experience." SonyStyle now uses the scent in each of its 37 stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scents and Sensibility | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...firm is taking its smell sense even closer to consumers and hoping to cash in on the $8.3 billion Americans already spend annually on air fresheners, candles and scented plug-ins. In August, ScentAir began offering a small home version of its smell machine for $30 a month. It comes with scent choices like eucalyptus mint, citrus musk and lavender with ylang-ylang, a derivative of a south Asian evergreen tree said to have aromatherapeutic benefits. "By comparison," says Van Epps, "plug-ins scream Grandma's bathroom aerosol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scents and Sensibility | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

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