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In this day and age when travel is common, in order to stick out hotels have to do more than provide just a place to stay. Hotels around the world make names for themselves by being different; some offer lodging in old prison cells turned luxurious and others are made of ice.

Travelodge has gone down the same route. Earlier in the year, the budget hotel chain introduced its recyclable and temporary hotel concept, and now it is planning on offering its guests a new way to drift off to sleep, with the help of scents. Guests can choose from five different smells -- the sea, freshly cut grass, baby powder, home-baked apple pie and chocolate -- which are then added to the sheets. Not only can you sleep in the sweet smelling sheets, you can even take them home with you.

Smelly sheets aren't everywhere just yet; they are being tested at hotels in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Birmingham, Nottingham and at Heathrow Terminal 5. As for the smells, I can understand chocolate, but baby powder??? Do you really want to feel like you're sleeping in a children's nursery?

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