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...dull shade of white, bare except for the numbers one-to-13 differentiating the panels. This is the world of Norweigan artist Sissel Tolaas, recently profiled in The New York Times. Tolaas experiments with a sense that is often forgotten in the art world—that of smell. To produce “The FEAR of smell—the smell of FEAR,” Tolaas worked with men of various ages and nationalities who were profoundly afraid of something. The smells of her subjects’ perspiration were captured and then mixed into wall paint...
Just as roasting chestnuts smell a lot better than they taste, most of the menu at the new Z Square café is similarly deceptive. The café, which is the quicker, less expensive version of the Z Square restaurant and bar located in the basement, is a puzzling hybrid of Martha Stewart and Harvard Square. A number of curious white heat lamps, looking like they got lost on their way to a nail salon, hang from the ceiling over plates of hot food. Savory crepes, hot entrées, and breakfast anytime distinguish Z Square from any other aesthetically...
...grew up dirt poor in the tiny east Texas town of Big Sandy, where his work ethic spoke volumes. In the summers, Smith, a self-described "hick" who turns words like curfew into care-few, picked berries, and tossed 30-lb. bales of hay onto trucks. "I can smell it now," he says, perking up in his Lake Forest, Ill., office, loading faux hay over his shoulder. "We didn't know about lifting weights. Haaaay! That's what you got." The name Lovie he got from his great-aunt Lavana, no doubt requiring him to become a very tolerant...
Paris it was not, but at least the smell of stale beer had successfully been aired out of the Sanctum, The Crimson’s venue for parties, writers’ meetings, and—at long last—its very first fashion show...
...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...