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L’Eau de Bateau

Real estate agents long ago discovered that a good way to make a house more appealing was to bake chocolate chip cookies in the kitchen before potential buyers arrived. I’m told that this is now such an obvious ploy that many have shifted to the understated gambit (albeit with more carbs) of baking bread.

It’s clear that aroma has much to do with our appreciation of product value. The nose can distinguish among

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