Smell Of Success

AROMATIC medicine is a relatively new area of study in Australia. Elise Scully, aromatherapy teacher at Health Arts College in Box Hill, discarded her corporate suit for a career in natural therapies in the early '90s.

Soft Touch

Bosses are using natural therapies to invigorate the workplace. Margie Sheedy reports.

Scents And Sensibility

It's not often that I have to get things off my chest, or rather out of my entire olfactory network, but lately there have been too many scenarios such as this. At a restaurant and, like Pavlov's dog (hopefully not looking like one), excited about the wine order. After the initial check for faults, the waiter expertly fills the glass. And there it is, a foul aroma that can only be described as a cross between fly spray and rancid aromatherapy oil. No, it isn't the wine, I can't smell that yet. It ...

Schoolboy Jailed Over Bid To Poison Prince William

A SCHOOLBOY who sent a letter apparently containing a deadly poison to Prince William and a bottle of aromatherapy oil laced with caustic soda to Cherie Blair has been detained for three years.

Oil Burner Blamed For Death Of Baby

A house fire that killed a two-month-old boy and seriously injured his sleeping mother was started accidentally after an aromatherapy oil burner malfunctioned, the Supreme Court was told yesterday. Mark John Smith is accused of attempting to murder his wife, Nicole Taylor, and of murdering their

Sniff! Ah, Yes, That's Blackpool All Right

TOURISM chiefs in Blackpool, England, are giving away brochures that smell like seaside rock from the resort. They hope the smelly brochures will banish winter depression and bring back memories of happy holidays. Minty aromatherapy oil has been impregnated into the pages in a bid to combat