Last time we found too many bottles that tasted tired from languishing on store shelves (always an issue with unfamiliar wines) or that were overpowered by the struck-match smell of sulfur dioxide, used as a preservative but best in amounts too minute to notice.
Matching smells with media has been tried in the past.
AirTel signs and M-PESA logos compete with butchers and charcoal-sellers, bombarding the senses with a barrage of colour that still can't quite match that smell.
Does the taste match the smell?
After giving each sample a good sniff, volunteers had to click their way through 52 sounds of varying pitches, played by piano, woodwind, string or brass, and identify which best matched the smell.
By forcing air through the keys at different intensities, flavorists can combine notes, like an organist playing a chord, until they get an aroma that closely matches the smell of a food that they want to simulate in the lab.
After Smith let his tail, marshalled by Ryan McLaren, who had a magnificent game, swell the lead (Harry Gurney found time to make McLaren his ninth wicket of the match), Best smelled blood.
The only way he obliges his Parisian critics ("pretty much every arsehole there is his enemy") is by portraying himself as a misanthropic loner and drunken misery guts with personal habits to match (he smells).
The results were analysed using NIST 05 Mass Spectra Library V2.0 and the identified odorous compounds were later matched with smell descriptors using established databases Flavornet and Perfume and Flavorist [58, 59].
Again, try to match the scent to theme of the party, whether it's the smell of exotic flowers, the seaside breeze or freshly washed cotton sheets.
