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Earnings by Aroma tells the story of Isla Trinh, a brilliant yet unconventional financial analyst gifted with synesthesia-the blending of sensory perception-which allows her to smell patterns in data, emotion, and deception. With the help of AI and advanced olfactory sensors, she develops NoseDive, a revolutionary tool that analyzes corporate environments through scent to predict financial instability and uncover hidden truths. Her method is mocked at first, then feared, as she uncovers major corporate collapses and secrets buried in the very air we breathe. As NoseDive's accuracy shakes Wall Street, Isla uncovers a deeper conspiracy: a shadow organization known as ScentNet, which has developed sophisticated scent-based behavioral manipulation systems. These systems-marketed under names like DriftGuard and Atmos-are designed not just to mask corruption but to engineer compliance in public and private spaces, silently altering perception, emotion, and decision-making at a molecular level. Isla is forced into a global scent war, navigating betrayals, false data leaks, and engineered erasure as she works with a rogue network called the Olfactory Underground to expose the truth. The novel climaxes with Isla and her allies publicly dismantling the first live deployment of DriftGuard inside a federal courthouse, igniting a worldwide movement for atmospheric transparency and scent sovereignty. As laws change and humanity rediscovers its forgotten relationship with scent, Isla retreats from the spotlight, her mission complete. In a world once silenced by synthetic calm, people learn to trust their noses again-and with it, their freedom to feel, to question, and to choose.