Holiday Inn is updating everything from its lobbies to its logo (formerly written out in cursive, it has been edited down to a cleaner, modern “H”). It even has created a piped-in signature scent that isn’t a byproduct of a highly chlorinated pool. The smell: citrus and white tea, with subtle undercurrents of perilla leaf, woods and herbs.

— From Motels Boost the Thread Count at the New York Times, with many thanks to Fleur for the link! Apparently they have a separate scent for the Holiday Inn Express hotels — with sweet grass and green tea.

Beijing is to install 100 deodorant guns at a stinking landfill site on the edge of the city in a bid to dampen complaints about the capital's rubbish crisis.

The giant fragrance sprays will be put in place by May at the Asuwei dump site, one of several hundred tips that are the focus of growing public concerns about sanitation, environmental health and a runaway consumer culture.

— From Beijing to sweeten stench of rubbish crisis with giant deodorant guns at The Guardian.