Why do luxury hotels smell so good?
10 May 2026 at 04:00
A year after staying in a nice hotel, youโll have forgotten almost everything except the smell. That fragrance, designed to make you feel, for a while, slightly superior to the rest of humanity, will have been stored somewhere in your hippocampus with 65% accuracy, according to some studies. The day you return, youโll immediately recognize the feeling: youโve arrived at a place that smells expensive.

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