Where did that hotel smell come from

    On his first trip to China, Hermes perfumer Jean Claude Ellena and his wife visited the Forbidden City in November. They immediately smelled a distinctive smell.He told her he had to know where the smell was coming from. Later, there was "Yunnan dangui".

    For humans, fragrance is often not about depicting reality, but about creating illusion.

"Dream of Red Mansions" in the yuan Spring when the mothering "grand view garden tent dance dragon, curtain flying colorful phoenix, gold and silver huancai, jewelry luster, cauldron burning lily incense" "selling gold furnace, burning royal incense"...The synaesthesia of smell and vision, create in reader brain together an extremely extravagant illusion.

In Love in the Time of Cholera, Florentino dreams of Fermina, who is scented with gardenia, and even drinks perfume.Believing that "only the senses can save the soul, just as only the soul can save the senses," Wilde's        Dorian Gray set out to study the secrets of perfume.

    The influence of smell language is so subtle that luxury hotels will not ignore it.

The Lobby of the Westin hotel, for example, is scented with white tea, mixed with warm cedar, vanilla and freesia to create a fresh, relaxed atmosphere.