Can anyone make a New York City street smell truly good?

One of the Big Apple’s hottest holiday destinations – Fifth Avenue in Midtown – is doing its best to cut through the city’s usual less-than-lovable aroma this shopping season, partnering with luxury brand NEST New York to pipe the perfumer’s beloved Holiday scent into the air along the packed thoroughfare.

Goodbye, notes of cigarette and weed, vehicle exhaust and food truck smoke — hello, hopefully at least, hints of pomegranate, mandarin orange, pine, cloves and cinnamon, with whispers of vanilla and amber.

That’s according to Toni Lakis, Creative Director and Chief Brand Officer for NEST New York — she’s in charge of the Herculean effort to transform the normally traffic-choked strip between 47th and 59th Sts. into a fresh, ch

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