Come November, Ocean Mist will be replaced with Season’s Greetings, which reminded me of hot apple cider and cinnamon when I sampled it. (After I tested both fragrances, my office smelled like Christmas in July.) The building will eventually rotate four fragrances, including White Blossom Tea and Cranberry Apple — the result of a painstaking selection process. “You have no idea how hard it is to smell 1,500 fragrances,” Mr. Ludwig said. “Your nose can become numb to anything.”
— Rental and condo buildings in New York City have joined hotels in scenting their lobbies. Read more at Aroma: The New Building Amenity at The New York Times. Hat tip to Tara!
Heh, I’m sure there are quite a few fragrance folks around here who know exactly what it’s like to smell 1,500+ fragrances.
No kidding!
It would take you 5 months of wearing 10 fragrances a day or 2 months and a half if you were able to wear 20 of them each day. Only sniffing, if you could smell 50 of them in blottes you would need at least a month to accomplish the task.
Quite a lot of work!
And still they ended up with Cranberry Apple!