This Millennial Entrepreneur Hopes Americans Are Ready to Wear Cannabis Cologne

Trying to smoke out the fragrance industry

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Until recently, Killian Wells hated the smell of pot. "When people smoked around me, it smelled like skunk," he said, "or worse—like skunk and B.O."

But then Wells, a recent transplant from New York to Los Angeles, visited a cannabis dispensary. Having diagnosed him with anxiety, Wells' doctor handed him a prescription for medicinal marijuana. So Wells found himself with his head over rows and rows of glass apothecary jars, inhaling the aroma of Sativa and Indica and scores of hybrids.

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