The only thing I like better than the smell of coffee in the morning is chocolate. That wonderful chocolatey smell can get my mouth watering in an instant.
I know I'm not the only one, so this is no surprise: Chocolate-scented packaging. 
The idea, called Chocolatine, is to generate a smell from the container that will push consumers to an impulse buy without messing with the products themselves. It's basically a plastic jar that contains a fragrance and a jar lid that disperses the scent.
"Chocolatine proves that it is possible to render a complex fragrance and trap it durably into a plastic part produced from natural feedstock using encapsulation technology”
Ideal for cosmetics and personal care products. Chocolate scented face cream. Well, not the cream, just the jar. I'd buy it. Pretty cool, what technology we have now.
And if you want to have chocolate fragrance in your yard, here's a little item I just learned about: a plant that smells like chocolate. The Chocolate Cosmos comes from Mexico, so maybe it would grow here. Not to be eaten, the Cosmos produces reddish/maroon flowers that give off a chocolate scent.
I guess it's possible to have too much of a good thing though. A chocolate factory in Chicago is being accused of choco-pollution. Most folx in the area consider the factory's odors to be an "olfactory treat". Nevertheless, one neighbor complained about the fumes the factory produced while grinding roasted cacao beans. That caused the EPA to check it out.
"Based on what the inspector saw during two mornings in early September, the EPA cited Blommer on Thursday for violating limits on opacity, or the amount of light blocked by the factory's grinder dust. The company later could be fined by the government.
Environmental regulators measure opacity to help determine if factories are releasing too much pollution that can trigger asthma attacks and harm people suffering from heart and lung diseases--whether those tiny particles are soot from a power plant or cocoa dust from a candy grinder."
I guess pollution is pollution. But jeez.
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