Comments on: Smells like shopping

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:16:00 +0000

Guess I’ll only be doing mall shopping when I have a headcold in the future.

By: sean

sean — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:06:00 +0000

Old news. Hollister already stinks like salty something, and I remember hearing that those cookie places have the canned scent of baking to attract customers.

By: EH

EH — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:53:00 +0000

What about fir?

By: Ping Kee

Ping Kee — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:50:00 +0000

Great. Researchers discover a scent that helps humans think more clearly (read the article to which David linked) and conclude the best way to use it is to make people buy more things. What a pity these people didn’t devise, conduct and analyse their research in the presence of said scent.

By: machinestate

machinestate — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:35:00 +0000

I’m allergic to pine, but if I’m not closed up in a house with one, or camping near pines for more than a couple days then I’m usually OK

By: Matthew Petty

Matthew Petty — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:21:00 +0000

As long as it cloaks the stench of Abercrombie and Fitch.

By: Lupus_Yonderboy

Lupus_Yonderboy — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:21:00 +0000

All of them, all the time. Not layered, though – you’ll go from intense orange to intense perfume to intense pine-sol (different from pine, that tends to be tolerable), one after another after another.

By: Sam Archer

Sam Archer — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:09:00 +0000

Perhaps he lives in a tropical region, or desert? … one of the few that don’t have pines?

By: Marja Erwin

Marja Erwin — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:06:00 +0000

So is this instead of the headache-inducing dizziness-inducing perfume smells, or in addition to them?

By: EH

EH — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:34:00 +0000

You’re allergic to pine? Do you have to wear a respirator at all times?

By: Marc Montoya

Marc Montoya — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:23:00 +0000

desperate!

By: edgore

edgore — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:20:00 +0000

What *is* Marc Cantor up to these days?

By: Art

Art — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:13:00 +0000

I would have guessed it would be “lemon-scented”, as is every damn product on the market.

Well, it’s still the tyranny of citrus fragrance anyway :)

By: Jorpho

Jorpho — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:09:00 +0000

Bah! This sort of thing gets trotted out every couple of years, and the papers re-write the same articles about the primal suggestive power of scents, and nothing ever changes.

It is only a matter of time before the scent-making PC peripheral resurfaces yet again.

By: gandalf23

gandalf23 — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:07:00 +0000

ugh. I already have to avoid malls around Christmas because of all the smells of the season kicking in my allergies and asthma (i’m insanely allergic to christmas trees!). guess I’ll have to avoid shopping all together! :)