Posts Tagged Humor
Australian man demonstrates limits of scent masking
In case you are in doubt about the need for odor neutralizers, and feeling tempted to simply cover up bad smells with good ones, take heed. An Australian man recently killed his girlfriend, then tried using rose-scented candles and an aerosol spray to cover up the smell. I think he’s in jail now.
Read more in the Herald Sun
Add comment September 15, 2008
Aromatic alarm clock wakes you with bacon
The scent of bacon always reminds me of lazy Sundays, when Dad would be home watching wrestling on TV, and mom would be making pancakes and bacon. Several decades later, thanks to some freaky genius designers, I can wake up to the scent of bacon every morning, and nobody has to cook it for me.
Yep, it’s the Wake n’ Bacon Alarm Clock. Set the alarm before you go to bed, insert some frozen bacon, and say good night. Ten minutes before you want to get up the little halogen lamps inside will heat up and start doing their job. If everything goes according to plan, you will start dreaming about eating bacon, and by the time your eyes open, your dream will come true. Now, there’s an invention I can get behind.
Link: Matty Sallin
Add comment August 8, 2008
Feeling low? Try on a bacon-scented tuxedo!
To go with those pork-scented postage stamps, we now have bacon-scented clothing. A tuxedo, to be exact. It’s from those funny folks over at Archie McPhee, who finally came up with something worthy of mention in New York magazine. Sadly, it’s actually an April Fools’ hoax.
Links: NewYork Mag, Archie McPhee
Add comment June 19, 2008
Ambient scenting companies advertising via YouTube
Air Aroma, a scent marketing company based in Melbourne, is doing talk-free, animated television ads.
Kyoto company Sante Claire has got an infomercial-style ad about its scent diffusers on YouTube. See and hear ultrasonic technology explained, and experience the beauty of their “Wedding” model, introduced at this year’s Tokyo International Gift Show.
And for your entertainment, here’s an American infomercial from the Home Shopping Network about a “programmable hush fragrance aroma pulse system kit.” Say that five times fast!
Add comment April 12, 2008
Scenting the revolution
Fragrance isn’t just for marketing products anymore. Spain’s Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) is using fragrance to try and win an election. The party’s new fragrance is a mixture of Mediterranean fruits and herbs whose collective aroma smells like socialism’s values: “confidence, equality, progress and efficiency.” The PSC will be sending samples to all the political parties in the Catalan parliament, as well as selling it in their Barcelona headquarters, offices and party meetings. The party suggests using it in offices to create a “pleasant environment of equality and fairness.”
Spain is apparently not the first country to mix perfume and politics. Russia has several politicians marketing their own fragrances, in a fashion similar to celebrity fragrances so popular in the West.
Read more in the UK Guardian and Cosmetics Design Europe.
Add comment January 15, 2008
Smell-o-phone sendup
Giant Tuesday Night shows us the potential of the Smell-o-phone:
Add comment January 8, 2008
Aromatic comedy debuts in Southern California
Inspired by the movie adaptation of Patrick Suskind’s novel “Perfume,” THEATRX’s “Scent of a Woman” portrays an older couple that bottles one another’s scents in an effort to rekindle their relationship. The scents, Eau d’Arlene and Eau d’Al, involve Crisco and sweat, and their manufacture can be seen at THEATRX in Escondido, CA through October 7. Read more at the North County Times
Add comment September 7, 2007
