bababooey
02-07-2009, 09:45 PM
I guess no one on Bloomberg's staff is a fisherman. :don't know why: The wind has been blowing S from NJ for the past week or so. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the smell was coming from IFF or another fragrance manuracturer in NJ. Just one fisherman could have solved it. ;)
http://blog.nj.com/njv_mark_diionno/2009/02/pleasant_smell_from_jersey_eli.html
A whiff of hypocrisy from New York (http://blog.nj.com/njv_mark_diionno/2009/02/pleasant_smell_from_jersey_eli.html)
by Mark DiIonno (mdiionno@starledger.com)/Star-Ledger columnist Saturday February 07, 2009, 7:05 AM
You gotta love those New Yorkers.
They get a few wafts of Vermont on the Upper West Side, and the drama starts.
Nine times since December of 2005, the smell of maple syrup had drifted through the Hudson waterfront, and New Yorkers wanted some answers. The mystery smell made the tabloids, the Times. The New Yorker even ran a blurb. Like they never smell urine in subway stations, or got stuck behind a city sanitation truck...
Bloomberg News reported, "Ooh, that smell! It's coming from New Jersey."
The front cover of the Daily News yelled, "IT CAME FROM JERSEY."
The New York Post story lead said, "Who knew that America's armpit could smell so sweet?"
Well, not for nothing, New Jersey has been making America's armpits smell sweet for more than a century, something New Yorkers should remember next time they're sardined on a transit train in August.
We are the fragrance and flavor capital of America. Always have been.
The giants of the industry, like International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF) and Firmenich, are here, as well as dozens of others. From dollar-store shampoos to $100 an ounce perfumes, from laundry detergent to stick deodorant, New Jersey companies makes the fragrances that makes the nation less offensive. Even New Yorkers.
"I'd say we have about 60 various flavor and fragrance houses operating in the state," said Hal Bozarth, the executive director of the Chemistry Council of New Jersey. "I know we have more here in New Jersey than any other part of country."
http://blog.nj.com/njv_mark_diionno/2009/02/pleasant_smell_from_jersey_eli.html
A whiff of hypocrisy from New York (http://blog.nj.com/njv_mark_diionno/2009/02/pleasant_smell_from_jersey_eli.html)
by Mark DiIonno (mdiionno@starledger.com)/Star-Ledger columnist Saturday February 07, 2009, 7:05 AM
You gotta love those New Yorkers.
They get a few wafts of Vermont on the Upper West Side, and the drama starts.
Nine times since December of 2005, the smell of maple syrup had drifted through the Hudson waterfront, and New Yorkers wanted some answers. The mystery smell made the tabloids, the Times. The New Yorker even ran a blurb. Like they never smell urine in subway stations, or got stuck behind a city sanitation truck...
Bloomberg News reported, "Ooh, that smell! It's coming from New Jersey."
The front cover of the Daily News yelled, "IT CAME FROM JERSEY."
The New York Post story lead said, "Who knew that America's armpit could smell so sweet?"
Well, not for nothing, New Jersey has been making America's armpits smell sweet for more than a century, something New Yorkers should remember next time they're sardined on a transit train in August.
We are the fragrance and flavor capital of America. Always have been.
The giants of the industry, like International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF) and Firmenich, are here, as well as dozens of others. From dollar-store shampoos to $100 an ounce perfumes, from laundry detergent to stick deodorant, New Jersey companies makes the fragrances that makes the nation less offensive. Even New Yorkers.
"I'd say we have about 60 various flavor and fragrance houses operating in the state," said Hal Bozarth, the executive director of the Chemistry Council of New Jersey. "I know we have more here in New Jersey than any other part of country."