The four cat burglars ripped holes through the roof and lowered themselves into the Tamarac perfume store Hollywood movie-style, via ropes, harnesses and an array of burglary tools. They methodically tried to disable the alarm and surveillance system and even ripped out the business' Internet wiring before targeting loot that even the store's owner called a heap of "cheap perfume."

— Read more at Perfumes thieves break-in Mission Impossible-style at Florida's Sun Sentinel.

About 30,000 Dutch households are to receive marijuana-scented scratch cards in an effort to uncover illegal urban cannabis plantations. Authorities in Rotterdam and The Hague say they are distributing the cards to help people recognise what cannabis smells like.

— Read more at Dutch sniff cards to help find cannabis plantations at BBC News.

A posse made up of two NYPD cops, a retired officer and six other bandits roped in 16 unwitting day laborers and set out for a major score -- unloading $1 million in high-end perfumes from a New Jersey warehouse, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

— Read more at Eau de 'rogue cops' at the New York Post. Thanks to SarahN for the tip!

Two female council employees in Motala, central Sweden, came to blows after a woman became irritated by another's choice of perfume, resulting in a physical attack and a death threat.

— From Council colleagues in violent clash over scent of a woman at The Local.