Scentfest, a revolution starting this Friday , and the 8 reasons it was inevitable As my lucky fellow fragrance reporters are packing their bags and preparing their nostrils for the sensory debauch at the Fort Mason Center, I find myself observing the landscape from a very different vantage point this year*: as an analyst and critic sharpening my focus at the precise intersection of olfactive anthropology, human resistance, and the rapidly encroaching frontiers of artificial