Nick :
Would you mind sharing the name of the business in Texas and the hotel in New York? I’m SO curious because a lot of higher end businesses and hotels use scent companies like ScentAir, Better Scents, etc., and I actually have accounts and reps with a few of the biggest ones.
The cool thing is you can ask them what scent a specific business is using. Sometimes they’ll tell you exactly, and sometimes the business has paid for a proprietary custom scent, so they can’t give you the exact formula. But they can usually tell you the standard scent they started with before customizing it.
I did this after staying at the JW Marriott in Chicago. The second I walked into the lobby, the smell literally punched me in the face. 😂 It smelled SO good. Very luxurious and mysterious, almost like a subtle incense burning somewhere. It wasn’t really sweet. It just created this crazy atmosphere where it felt like something fun was about to happen. Like there was a party somewhere or you had just walked into this insanely luxurious place. It genuinely changed the entire feeling of the hotel.
The hotel told me they used ScentAir, so I called my rep. He told me their exact formula was proprietary, but he could tell me what they built it from. It was ScentAir’s White Tea & Sage, which is now called White Tea & Thyme. It has bergamot, lemon and tea on top, lavender, jasmine, thyme and ylang ylang in the middle, and amber and musk in the base. I ordered the regular version and immediately thought, YES, this is definitely the foundation of what I smelled. The JW Marriott version just seemed to have something darker and more incense like added to it.
So PLEASE tell me the names of those two places 😂 I’d love to ask my reps what they’re using. I know you already found a perfume that smells like it, but if we can figure out the actual scent profile those businesses use, you’ll know exactly what notes you’re drawn to and could probably find other fragrances with that same smell too!
2026-08-27 13:17:24