I was curios about the new smell, but in this link it says they put perfume on the chinrest. [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/01/02/violinists-can%E2%80%99t-tell-the-difference-between-stradivarius-violins-and-new-ones/]
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