Travel is all about experiencing new sensations, including different smells: the fresh fragrance of a grassy meadow, the perfumes wafting from stores and the scent of candles in centuries-old cathedrals ... That's why the tourist office in York, England created the world's first scented visitor's guide.

Titled "Smell York," the city guide catalogues some of the English city's most distinctive aromas and corresponding tourist attractions.

A total of 12 attractions are pictured in the booklet (one for each month), and each image is infused with an associated smell. Tourists simply scratch and sniff to experience the fragrances, which range from rather classic notes such as tea, chocolate and wild fern to a few more unusual odours.

Namely, in a nod to the legend that York is one of the UK's most haunted cities, the tourist office included a page with "the haunting aromas of ghosts," characterized by rose and sulfur notes. Tourists can also experience the smells of the horse track or the railroad.

The Smell York guide is available online for £5 (around $8).