Perfumers generally design complicated scents to stimulate a fantasy or a mood, not tomatch any one particular thing. But onesmall fragrance company in New York called Demeter takes a different approach. Demeter bottles thesmell of celery, or ofa gin and tonic, or of snow. Sarah Lilley went to find out what isolating smells like these does for us.
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