Smell You Later!

Late April Fools?

NTT Communications Corp. will move ahead with a pilot trial of its Mobile Fragrance Communications service that enables users of its mobile technology to experience scents emitted through an aroma generator built into handheld devices, according to a Japanese media report.

NTT, a unit of NTT DoCoMo , will begin trials of the new service Thursday using 20 volunteers and hopes to commercialize the service later this year, according to a report in the business daily Nikkei.

The handheld device is designed to work together with music and video downloads, whereby scents are combined according to a fragrance playlist linked to audiovisual content