Mr. Varouxakis often hires someone to cook for parties and didn't want cooking smells permeating the rest of the space.

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Known as spinning, the practice smells bad but isn't illegal.

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"I'll call the front desk and say the room smells like smoke even when it doesn't, just to see how they'll respond, " she says.

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Even when wet, a Golden Retriever scarf doesn't smell any more like dog than a typical wool sweater smells like sheep, she says.

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It smells a little like a sweet kerosene, which isn't as unpleasant as it sounds.

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We haven't done Ty's last load of laundry, because it still smells like him.

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Our disagreements on smells seem to be mostly over what we like and don't like, and what they mean to us.

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