Shopping and Smelling

[Allegro]

Do you ever notice how pleasing store smells are? I notice this everytime I pick up manga at my local Borders or when I look for something at a Best Buy, every store seems to have a pleasing aroma that you can distinguish.

No doubt this is some sort of conspiracy aimed at getting more people to shop at such places.

[everdred12a]

It's just like the new car smell. It's all a government conspiracy...

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...but you didn't hear it from me. *runs and hides*

[Mr. SmartyPants]

It's not like.... only a pleasant smell. It's a smell that ALWAYS associates with the type of store! Best Buy smells... very technologicy and equipmenty. Like sweet sillicon mixed with some pleather in a fine blend of liquid crystals.

Bookstores smell like fresh books! I looooveee the smell! Sometimes they also smell a bit like coffee, as many have some cafes.

As for clothing stores... they smell... all the same im sure a shopaholic female can disprove that for me!

The apple store? The smell of absolute sexiness!

[rii namuras]

(Teh awesomest Barnes and Nobles in Columbia smells like Starbucks. Because there is a Starbucks in the middle.)

(Not that I noticed it. But it must smell like Starbucks because there's a Starbucks in the middle of it.)

[Sai]

Heh, as far as clothing store smell, Hot Topic has the strangest smell ever. I can't describe it right now. Borders=good. Sometimes I just flip through the books fast and smell them. Weird huh

[Lynx]

i heard once that some movie rental places smell like popcorn intentionally so that it will make people buy more movies by associating the smell with movies, thus getting them in the mood to rent movies.

[Sai]

That's weird but a good idea.

[rii namuras]

(Popcorn makes me sad because I can't eat it because I have braces... So therefore I would not want to buy any movies.)

(Evil corporations don't consider the minority.)

[Bunny]

Book stores have nothing on libraries. I adore the smell of old books and the soft feel of their worn pages. It's almost enough to give me goosebumps.

I hate Bath and Body Works for very obvious reasons. Yankee Candle stores are pretty hazardous too.

And, yes. Clothing stores do smell differently. American Eagles smell like tailgating with your best friends. Pacsuns smell like the late night ride home from the beach. Belks' smell like getting a pedicure with your mom. Hot Topics smell like meeting the band. Geesh, obviously.

[EireWolf]

I like bookstore smells. And some candle stores... but those can easily overwhelm the olfactory senses. I do not care for clothing store smells, but that could be because I used to work in one.

[ShiroiHikari]

Bath and Body Works always smells strongly of floral body spray, durh hurh. :B

[TheDrunkenNinja]

Admittedly, I only like the smell of the packaged meats section. Sometimes candle/gift stores smell book.

Sometimes.

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[mitsuki lover]

I really have never noticed any scent in any bookstore I have been in.

[ZiP]

Not all stores smell good *coughHotTopiccough*

[4m3r1c4]

i once took a business class in high school and my teach taught us so much, one day he taught us about how business and psychology merge and what they started doin gin the fifties was that they started to play around with ideas of how to catch the general public's attention and how to influence people's minds and they (corportaions/R&D/scientists) came up with the idea that aromas and sounds and sights are what influence people the most..its a subliminal thing like subliminal music is to your subconscious so is sweet smells or funky smells in stores and such they cause your body to respond the scents and stick around longer than if there were no scent and music in shops too if there werent any it wouldnt be as fun..or influencing, also back in the fifties my teacher said they would place pictures of food items in films in theaters to influence sales of those food items and it worked..sales increased..just a funny way to provoke mind waves and influence by satanists. i still believe that if your emotionally charged you can interfere with electricity and life itself...( | _ | )

[Joshua Christopher]

I love the smells of paper mills.

[Maledicte]

Hot Topic smells like incense (obviously) and old socks.

Department stores don't smell like anything until you get to the perfume section. Then the odor hits you like a mallet.

Best Buy and other DVD stores have a slightly high-inducing scent.

Bookstores smell like new books. Used bookstores smell like old books. Trust me, they smell different.

[Tenshi no Ai]

its a subliminal thing like subliminal music is to your subconscious so is sweet smells or funky smells in stores

Actually I heard in my psy class that subliminal messaged don't work^^

Yeah I guess sometimes they'll use certain smells but it's not as if they grab a fan to blow the scent outside into the breeze to have you come in... it's just sort of... there.

Stores I noticed that have different scents like Shoppers/Extra Foods, don't exactly have it to attract customers and all^^ ...I do love the smell of bakerys and candly/scented places... mmmm.

Bookstores smell like new books. Used bookstores smell like old books. Trust me, they smell different.

...old books stink >_< They have a werid... gluey smell to them :/

[jon0]

the barnes and noble in Fortwayne has a very distinct scent.

[FarmGirl]

Used bookstores smell much, much better than new bookstores. The smell of history.
Intoxicating.

[Heart of Sword]

All I know is, Abercrombie and Fitch tries to use the smell thing, and all their smell-thing does is make my nose hurt. It certainly doesn't make me want to go in there.

[Allegro]

I still am not sure if it's the books that I am smelling, or the Starbucks shop whenever I walk into a bookstore. It seems to me that all of the books seem to smell the same way as the coffee.

Perhaps the publishers\printers know that the coffee scent in books is attractive to the customers?

...its a subliminal thing like subliminal music is to your subconscious so is sweet smells or funky smells in stores and such they cause your body to respond the scents and stick around longer than if there were no scent and music in shops too if there werent any it wouldnt be as fun..

That's understandable, considering that good impressions always equal good sales in stores. From what I've learned in Psychology is that our senses are closely connected to memory, which is why certain smells always bring back certain emotions.

Going back to the popcorn\movie store thing, I think it's because we smell, or associate a good movie experience with the environment in the store (thus encouraging us to rent a movie). For some reason, smells always draw me into such stores.

[ZiP]

All I know is, Abercrombie and Fitch tries to use the smell thing, and all their smell-thing does is make my nose hurt. It certainly doesn't make me want to go in there.

Yeah, abercrombie overdoes it a bit on the cologne, I still wear some of their clothes though.

[mitsuki lover]

I like the smell of puppies and kitties in the pet stores.