And now for the ... nose

The NY Times has become the first English-language newspaper to introduce a regular column on perfume: so declared the BBC Select podcast I was listening to. The question then is what other language newspapers already have a perfume column? And thanks to the Mail & Guardian Online (South Africa) I now know it's Swiss. Also thanks to the Mail & Guardian Online for coming up with the headline: New York Times hires man with nose for a story. The man is Chandler Burr, author of "The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession" (Random House, 2003) and he will review and rate fragrances in his column called Scent Strip in the NY Times' T:Style magazine.