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).
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.
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…
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.
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…