Yankee Candle's Stages of Abstraction Level 1: The scent represents a physical object where the object's aroma is one of its distinct properties.

Level 2: The scent represents a physical object in a specific state, where the aroma represented is not necessarily that of the object, but rather representative of that object's state (in this case, the clean-ness is the smell, not the cotton)

Level 3: The scent represents a location or event, where the aroma is supposed to be reminiscent of an intrinsic property held by a collective of objects, where that property doesn't necessarily affect the collective's aroma.

Level 4: The scent represents an event with an intrinsic property. This temporal aroma is devoid of location or physical property, but a shared idea of the property is still understood.

Level 5: The scent represents a fully personal experience with some unrelated property. The experience itself has no aroma or shared understanding.

Level 6: The scent represents an abstract location or experience which has some shared understanding but is ultimately fully personal. The aroma tries to replicate an idea, as opposed to a location.

Level 7: The scent represents only an intrinsic property, and a property that itself has no aroma, nor does it affect the aroma of any object of which it is a property.

Level Ω: The scent represents a property detached from any object, the absence of an object is in fact part of the scent. Total abstraction.

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