How Harrods Is Fixing the Toxic Perfume Counter

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Your department store fragrance floor has a problem. There are simply too many people trying on too many scents for a customer to know what he's buying.

"Everyone just sprays the perfume around," says Emmanuelle Pages, a fragrance consultant based in Hamburg. "There's no way to neutralize each fragrance after it's been used, so there's no way for the customer to smell any one thing."