Fragrance Firms Explore Opportunities With oPhone “Scent Messaging”
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Vapor Communications, creators of the oPhone, say the scent-based mobile messaging technology could refine the consumers scent palette and provide new opportunities for fragrance industry in the near future. The oPhone platform consists of a website (oNotes.com), an app (oSnap) and products that can be experienced at oPhone “hotspot” docking stations in Paris, New York and Cambridge, Mass.
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