"Woman of a Scent", in yesterday's New York Times, looks at the advertising campaign behind the recent With Love Hilary Duff fragrance release, while "Please Let It Be Whale Vomit, Not Just Sea Junk" (really!) recounts one woman's quest to find out if a huge lump of something found by the sea is really ambergris. Thanks to Ruth for the link!

Can humans follow a scent trail as well as dogs? Maybe.

Noticed how nice it smells inside a Sony store lately?

Through Christmas, the chain is filling its stores with a designer scent called "Seasons Greetings," which also has undertones of gingerbread, as a way to evoke happy memories in customers and put them in the shopping spirit.

Read the rest in The Washington Post.

Britney’s scent is Curious in Control, a fragrance presumably tailor-made for those, like Britney and her friend Lindsay Lohan, who enjoy hitting the town unconstrained by dull bourgeois conventions, such as bothering with underwear.

— from "Dollars and Scents" in today's UK Times Online.

It's been an amazing and creative process. You sit down with the 'juice' companies, and then they show you the different scents. You then compose the scent.

— Sounds easy, no? That's Mariah Carey on the development of her upcoming fragrance for Elizabeth Arden. (via upi) Update: read more about Carey's fragrance, M by Mariah Carey.