New Fragrance Line Captures Scents of Major Cities: Brilliant or Bad Idea?
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2012/06/03 22:52:49
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Familiar scents can transport us down memory lane to special places and times in our lives. But would you really want to smell like one of your favorite cities?
If so, Scent of Departure, a new fragrance line that captures the scents of twenty different cities around the world, may be just what you need to travel the world via your sense of smell.
At first we were a bit skeptical about the whole idea. Destinations like Los Angeles, London, and Istanbul are certainly filled with many memorable fragrances—but some of them quite unpleasant. Even those that aren’t particularly offensive may not be of the type you want to spray on your body.
Fortunately, Scent of Departure seems to be focusing on the most pleasant aromas found in these metropolises. “The air infused with the sweet smell of lilacs in Central Park, with intoxicating perfumes from passersby on the Champs-Elysées, with clouds of spices wafting through Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar . . . Snapshots of the most spectacular cities in the world captured in just a few bottles of perfume,” explains the company’s website.
Probably the best feature of this new fragrance line is the packaging. Each bottle resembles a checked baggage tag and is labeled with the particular city’s airport code—CDG (Paris), DXB (Dubai), TYO (Tokyo), etc. As such, each $45 bottle is part perfume, part collectible souvenir.
So, SodaHeads: What do you think about Scent of Departure’s city-centric fragrance line? Brilliant or bad idea?
If so, Scent of Departure, a new fragrance line that captures the scents of twenty different cities around the world, may be just what you need to travel the world via your sense of smell.
At first we were a bit skeptical about the whole idea. Destinations like Los Angeles, London, and Istanbul are certainly filled with many memorable fragrances—but some of them quite unpleasant. Even those that aren’t particularly offensive may not be of the type you want to spray on your body.
Fortunately, Scent of Departure seems to be focusing on the most pleasant aromas found in these metropolises. “The air infused with the sweet smell of lilacs in Central Park, with intoxicating perfumes from passersby on the Champs-Elysées, with clouds of spices wafting through Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar . . . Snapshots of the most spectacular cities in the world captured in just a few bottles of perfume,” explains the company’s website.
Probably the best feature of this new fragrance line is the packaging. Each bottle resembles a checked baggage tag and is labeled with the particular city’s airport code—CDG (Paris), DXB (Dubai), TYO (Tokyo), etc. As such, each $45 bottle is part perfume, part collectible souvenir.
So, SodaHeads: What do you think about Scent of Departure’s city-centric fragrance line? Brilliant or bad idea?
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- tobe 2012/06/04 03:06:32Brilliant
+1new orleans la toilette- essence de urine, new york la toilette- essence de trash bin... I don't know why anyone didn't think of it before. classico lolreply - Somkey the Hores 2012/06/04 03:00:16Bad Idea+1Don't sniff now, but cities STINK!reply
- Chris PK 2012/06/04 02:49:39Bad IdeaI don't even want to imagine what the scent for LA would be.reply
- Somkey ... Chris PK 2012/06/04 03:00:59Better than New Dork City!reply
- Chris PK Somkey ... 2012/06/04 03:13:10No doubt, and lets not even get started on someplace like Anchorage AK. Ode de moose poop anyone?reply
- Cat Man Chris PK 2012/06/04 04:23:12I bet'cha I can smell "Moscow" from my backyard, ya.reply
- Inquisitve Kat 2012/06/04 02:47:45 (edited)BrilliantI love fragrance and this just sounds incredibly clever. I'd love to try some 'Istanbul'.reply
- bags the Indigenous Guru 2012/06/04 02:44:09Bad Idea+2I've BEEN to NYC...and NO....I don't want either myself or my home to smell like that!reply
- tobe bags th... 2012/06/04 03:08:47+1me too. I'm guessing its a cross between old garbage and hot dogs.reply
- Cat Man bags th... 2012/06/04 04:28:33Baghdad smells like Bush and Cheney's "Independent" Contractors.reply
- Lisa 2012/06/04 02:09:10Bad Idea+1Last time I checked, cities don't exactly smell like flowers and fresh baked cookiesreply
- Cat Man Lisa 2012/06/04 04:30:20You've never been to Disneyland, Lisa. Flowers, cookies, cotton candy, fresh linen, smelly kids.....reply
- Lisa Cat Man 2012/06/04 04:48:02+1But last time I checked Disneyland isn't exactly classified as a major city...let alone a city itselfreply
- Torchy 2012/06/04 01:46:02 (edited)Bad IdeaI live in Los Angeles, where sometimes you don't want to breathe the air because it's nothing but smog. Why would you want to smell like the city? And what DOES it smell like? Roach Coaches and exhaust?reply
- jackie 2012/06/04 01:43:01BrilliantSince you guys are making a thread about it and it is getting noticed a lot and alot of attention then yes it is a good ideal. I am interested in how Miami smells :preply
- Lindsey jackie 2012/06/04 04:54:48+1Like bath salts and rotting zombiereply
- jackie Lindsey 2012/06/04 08:56:49I agreereply
- GoodEncounter 2012/06/04 01:39:34Bad IdeaUnless the cities smell like roasting chestnuts, lilacs, or an other sweet smell then yes-But except for NY at Christmas time no city is going to smell like that-So what's the point?reply
- Curmudgeon 2012/06/04 01:39:15Bad IdeaOkay, how about if your city is known for a sewage plant or meat rendering?reply
- lolitalovely 2012/06/04 01:31:45Bad IdeaI know I would never buy it. Most of New York definitely does not smell of lilacs. The 3 times I've been there have yielded not even a passing scent of lilacs. I will say I went in early spring and mid-fall. It's kind of a fantasy scent line. "What we wish the city smelled of all over." I would prefer Kenzo Amour that costs only a few dollars more.reply
- Skye 2012/06/04 01:27:14BrilliantSo they made perfume that smells like fart, oops I mean New York?reply
- AngelaDuke 2012/06/04 01:26:14Brilliant+3Perfect for people who are traveling all the time and miss home. I'm in the army and I constantly miss home. Anything that can make me feel like I'm at home is cool in my book. It's like the smell of Christmas for me lolreply
- The 9 tailed jinjuriki 2012/06/04 01:25:32Bad IdeaYay now I can smell the subway ewwwwreply
- louisa 2012/06/04 01:14:13Bad Ideasounds nastyreply
- Pele Emerging 2012/06/04 00:51:33Bad IdeaOf course, they want to capture the good smells, but big cities are too full of nasty smells, too. The aroma of Tacoma--a combination of pulp mills, industrial waste and sour tide flats comes to mind. LOL!reply
- beach bum 2012/06/04 00:47:17Bad Ideayuckreply
- Jiorgia 2012/06/04 00:46:02Brilliantanyone who thinks this is a bad idea does not understand marketing.reply
- tobe Jiorgia 2012/06/04 03:47:57probably smells like chemicals like all the rest of the perfume lines in the store. toxicreply
- SOUL4REAL 2012/06/04 00:44:40Bad Idea+1Who the hell want to smell like their city? The city I live in the damn water got the whole state stanking like dead fish! Hell no, I don't want to smell like this city or state! Bad bad bad Idea!reply
- Sam LeFay 2012/06/04 00:35:01BrilliantI'm not shy about innovation. I'm really interested in it; it sounds very cool and sophisticated.reply
- Assassin~ Badass Buzz Guru 2012/06/04 00:34:52Brilliant+1This is Brilliant. It will make them a lot of money.reply
- Syl 2012/06/04 00:33:58Bad Idea+6Why would anyone want to smell like smog and dirty asphalt?reply
- exsecrare Syl 2012/06/04 13:12:18Indianapolis would smell like steaming storm drains and sewer covers.reply
- Michael 2012/06/03 23:58:21Bad IdeaSorry, "with intoxicating perfumes from passersby on the Champs-Elysées" is not what we experienced. A lot of Parisians don't wear deodorant!reply
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