Aroma Therapy?

My place of employment is training me to be a professional water taster. I'm not kidding. It sounds crazy, I know! I had no idea professional water tasters existed, let alone required 80+ hours of training and a like amount of practice. (Yes, I get paid to practice tasting water-- sorry the position is filled.) Maybe I'll expound on this later, but in the interest of brevity, I'll confine this entry to the most fascinating thing I learned in training today.

Did you know. . . that vanilla is a natural odor suppressant? Mattress manufacturers use small amounts of vanilla to mask the smells that occur in the manufacturing process (wood, glue, synthetic materials, etc.) so that your mattress doesn't smell like anything when it is delivered by the RC Wiley guys. Crazy eh?!

Go home and spray your bed with vanilla-- apparently it's the bedroom equivalent of 'new car' spray!