Browsing by tag: car scenting

Strong smells

The Utah Court of Appeals has ruled the overwhelming presence of air fresheners and strong smells can give police officers reasonable suspicion to search a car.

— From Court: Over-perfumed vehicles can be searched at the Salt Lake Tribune (and something to consider before you buy that new Nissan Fuga).

27 Comments

A leafy forest smell

The system uses odour sensors on the outside of the car. When the sensors detect an unpleasant aroma, the system automatically closes the intake vents to stop the air getting in.

It can then release a leafy 'forest' smell, created using essential oils, into the car to combat any whiffs that manage to get through.

— From The astonishing new air-con that blocks unpleasant smells from even entering into your car at the Daily Mail. The car in question is the Nissan Fuga saloon.

22 Comments

Fragrance gifts for Father’s Day 2009, part 3

Guerlain Eau de Guerlainguerlain-vet

Classics from Guerlain: Eau de Guerlain, “heralding a hot, fragrant summer in Provence”; $94 for 100 ml at Neiman Marcus. Or, Vetiver in an alcohol-free Deodorant Stick, $27 at Bloomingdales

Read the rest of this article »

4 Comments

I’ll take the fluffy pink pig

The familiar dangling evergreen, mostly in the Little Trees brand, now comes in flavors including citrus, vanilla, leather or piña colada, and in the likeness of Yosemite Sam or the Virgin of Guadalupe. Others, like Scent a Vent’s Elegant jar, attach to the air vent. It comes in vanilla, as does a fluffy pink pig from Animal Farm.

— Columnist Phil Patton considers alternatives to the Maybach Zeppelin's costly fragrancing system in The Sweet Smell of Excess, at the New York Times.

Leave a comment

The Maybach Zeppelin: new car that “understands the human sense of smell”

Maybach Zeppelin car exterior

Have an extra $5-600,000? You could have a 2009 Maybach Zeppelin, “a car for connoisseurs”. And it's scented:

World first – a system for a fine interior fragrance

Customers are also able to opt for an especially refined equipment detail that is exclusive to the Maybach Zeppelin – an imaginatively designed, extremely high-quality perfume atomiser, the only one of its kind in the world. It easily eclipses all previous efforts to produce something similar, both in terms of its visual appeal and its operation…

Read the rest of this article »

Leave a comment
  • Shop for perfume

    Parfum1
  • Subscribe to NST

  • Search

  • Login to comment

  • Browse by…

  • Advertisement

  • Blogroll

  • From NST at Twitter

    nowsmellthisnowsmellthis: Stella McCartney in conversation with Alexandra Shulman (video, talks about new scent L.I.L.Y) http://t.co/VAKYigvK
    13 hours ago
    nowsmellthisnowsmellthis: "French parfumier Guerlain on trial over 'race slurs'" article at Telegraph http://t.co/lVDxoZMi
    14 hours ago
    nowsmellthisnowsmellthis: Scents of Self interviews Victoria of Bois de Jasmine http://t.co/2WoMMRyV
    2 days ago
    nowsmellthisnowsmellthis: "New Yankees fragrance strikes nostrils this month" http://t.co/yEyXibgl
    2 days ago
    nowsmellthisnowsmellthis: Vote for NST's Mood Board on FB and win a Zoya Nail Polish collection! http://t.co/MXHMN7I3
    2 days ago