Carole Walters
About Carole Walters
Carole Walters is a freelance writer, editor and PR strategist who lives in Bloomfield, NJ. carolefayewalters@gmail.com
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Sniffing the good, the bad and the glandular with the fragrance critic of the New York Times
04 December 2008 Articles
I never thought I’d be sniffing essence of armpit with Chandler Burr, the first and only fragrance critic for the New York Times (NYT). I expected to be listening to him talking behind a podium in syncopation with his PowerPoint slides. This is what usually happens at break-out sessions at tradeshows.
Instead, Burr, 45, strides into the windowless room in the bowels of the Jacob Javits Center in New York and instructs us to move our chairs to the front of the room and form a circle.
“Like Romper Room,” he says, referring to the once popular American children’s TV show. “We’re going to smell lots of things, talk to each other, and have fun.”
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