London's Heathrow airport has a new installation that lets people experience what each country smells like, by taking them on a sensory journey before even setting foot on their flights.
The "scent globe" opened five months ago in the departure lounge at Heathrow's new Terminal 2 include South Africa, Japan, Thailand, China and Brazil, Stuff.co.nz reported.
Heathrow officials worked with Design in Scent to produce the individual scents and represent South Africa's scent as the "adventure of safari with notes of tribal incense, wild grass and musky animalics", while Brazil "embraces the scents of its rich rainforest fauna with a palette of coffee, tobacco and jasmine."
Japan has "cool, oceanic tones with a mix of seaweed and shell extracts, green tea and Ambergris capturing the essence of small coastal villages so synonymous with the great Pacific Island, while China has a "mystical temple incense and subtle Osmanthus Fragrans flower to create an orient explosion," and Thailand is "an appetising mix of lemongrass, ginger and coconut."
Normand Boivin, COO of Heathrow airport said that these specially created scents will give passengers travelling through Terminal 2 an exclusive preview of destinations that only Heathrow connects to.
