His Secret Spoiled Wife (Lily and Alexander) novel Chapter 580

The fact that the whole place was quiet amplified the noise in the corner.

"You're going to lose this time!"

"Don't speak too soon. That might not be the case!"

"We've already had a whiff of Ben's. I don't believe that yours can be better than his."

Lily glanced over, and the waiter soon arrived with a few glasses of water and set them all in front of her, one after another. She took the opportunity to ask him, "What are they doing?"

She assumed they were drinking shots if this were a regular bar. However, it did not sound like that was the case.

The waiter followed Lily's line of sight and smiled before explaining, "It may not be obvious for you since it's your first time here, but I assume you must be a perfumer yourself. Do you not know what scent work is?"

"Scent work?" The first thought that came to Lily was, “Isn't that something police dogs do?”

"I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about a game! They are two different things!" Seeing that there were no customers around, he took a rag and began wiping the bar as he chatted.

"Oh? A game?"

The waiter noticed her confusion and explained patiently, "People will gather here at a certain time and compete with their scents. They’ll have to prepare their own scents beforehand, and several others will judge them to see whose scent contains the most unique ingredient, the most distinctive, the most layers, and so on. There's a lot to learn from playing this."

Then with a wave of his hand, he assumed that she still did not understand. "Well, it's just a small competition at the end of the day. There are people out there who are interested in cockfights, and there are people who compete on who has the better wine. Some even compete with their poetry. Here, we compete with scents."