There were extravagant floral displays, scented candles and flutes of champagne.
In the typically enterprising style of Namur's residents today, it is now a perfumerie ( delforge.com) which is increasingly renowned for its atmospheric displays of scent-making.
In addition to Muzak, which it bought two years ago for $345 million, Mood has divisions for signs, interactive displays and scents, which it says reach 150 million people each day at more than 500,000 locations around the world, from Saks Fifth Avenue to Petco.
JUST INSIDE THE 122,000 SQUARE-FOOT GREAT INDOORS IN DALLAS, artful displays of scented candles, decorator pillows, silk flowers and picture frames beckon browsers.
We started to record behavioral responses (i.e., loud calling, displaying, glandular scent marking, and sniffing) from the moment the focal individual entered the experimental latrine tree and continued behavioral observations for 30 min.
The result of the LMM to estimate the effect of perceived intruder pressure (as indicated by display and scent marking behavior) on latrine use frequency in males (model 2) showed that the full model was significantly better in explaining the data than the null model (likelihood ratio test, χ = 6.3327, df = 1, P = 0.012).
You are surrounded by the tinkling of small fountains, colorful floral displays and the scent of eucalyptus.
I work in the wholesale perfume district, but until recently I'd never been in one of the shops that line its blocks, their windows full of yellowing gift boxes and magnum-size display bottles of scent.
My favorite white was Bedell's 2010 Taste White ($35), a daring blend of chardonnay, sauvignon blanc, riesling, gewürztraminer and viognier displaying a patisserie scent and a swirl of subtleties.
Photograph by Sasha/Stringer/Getty. I work in the wholesale perfume district, but until recently I'd never been in one of the shops that line its blocks, their windows full of yellowing gift boxes and magnum-size display bottles of scent.
