ScentWorld 2010 Registration Open!

Registration is open for the most scentsational event of the season, ScentWorld 2010! This third annual conference and expo at the luxurious Gansevoort Miami Beach Hotel from November 17 - 19 will feature leading industry experts from all over the world discussing new strategies, techniques, and trends in scent branding, marketing, advertising, product design, hospitality, fashion, and much much more!

Sign up before October 1st and receive a 15% discount on your registration fee!

Scent Strategy: Not a Roll of the Dice

The Palms in Las Vegas has enjoyed a certain Not-Your-Father’s-Resort ever since it hosted MTV’s The Real World series back in 2002. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the signature scent chosen in the hotel’s recent excursion into Vegas’ ambient scenting trend, an earthy-leathery aroma very much reminiscent of your father’s cologne.

The Palms scent, called Teakwood, began pumping throughout the resort’s lobby and casino in late-May and, after numerous complaints from both patrons and staff, was discontinued less than a month later. “The place literally stinks. I’d almost rather smell the smoke,” noted one visitor in his online review.
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Olfactory Fact #97: One Smell Makes You Larger and One Smell Makes You Small

The scent of cucumber alters spatial perception to make an area seem larger, while the scent of roasted meat creates the illusion of closer quarters.

Olfactory Mathematics

The lack of adequate equipment to study the motion of the planets in the 16th Century did not prevent Nicolaus Copernicus from accurately demonstrating that the sun was not, in fact, at the center of the cosmos. Through mathematics, the brilliant astronomer was able to disprove the convoluted logic of his contemporaries by mapping the trajectories of the planets correctly if and only if the sun - not the earth - was placed at the center.
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