Scented Fabrics

[Parker]

I recently picked up a couple Black Fleece oxfords and they seem to have a distinctly cedar-y aroma, even after a wash or two. I noticed the same thing with a couple Martin & Osa sweaters, only a slightly different woodsy fragrance.

Have I lost my mind or are the fabrics infused with some kind of scent?

 

[ysc]

Wouldn't be unheard of. I don't know a lot about it from the clothing end, but I remember reading in various science magazines that companies were paying to have signature scents developed that they could treat their products with, yet another step in branding.
So it could be that, or it could be they picked up whatever scent was blown around the shop they were sold in, I take it is not a scent they could have encountered in your house?
Hey, maybe you are just developing some form of synesthesia.

 

[Shirtmaven]

About 8 years ago I was at the Chocolate fair in NYC. they had three dress one dark brown, one tan and one in winter white.
one smelled like dark chocolate, one smelled of Milk chocolate and the last of white chocolate.

I doubt that the clothing you referred to is infused with a scent unless it was stated on a tag.
Carl

 

[ysc]

Originally Posted by Shirtmaven

About 8 years ago I was at the Chocolate fair in NYC. they had three dress one dark brown, one tan and one in winter white.
one smelled like dark chocolate, one smelled of Milk chocolate and the last of white chocolate.

I doubt that the clothing you referred to is infused with a scent unless it was stated on a tag.
Carl

I kind of doubt the clothing is deliberately scented too, but the idea behind this scenting as branding thing is not that it's an added feature that would be mentioned on the tag, but that you subconsciously come to associate it with the brand, its always there etc. Even electronic companies were looking at having a smell built in to the casing of their products. I don't know how far down the line any of this is, only that companies are investigating it.
How were the chocolate dresses? was the smell convincing and in anyway something you would want a dress to smell of?

I kind of doubt the clothes have had this done to them, I know A&F do something a little like this covering their shops with signature smells, loud ******* music also that supposedly increases impulsive behaviour (ie spending more), my sister bought some A&F stuff and it smelled noticeably for a while.
I imagine the clothes smell because of some in store scent, not some deliberate strategy.

 

[ysc]

Never heard of this website but the article outlines the main ideas

http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/b...se/2006/04/30/

 

[Film Noir Buff]

I like the idea of aromatherapy clothing.

 

[anon]

Ray Zalinsky: Went a little heavy on the pine tree perfume there, kid?
Tommy: Sir, it's an taxicab air freshener.
Ray Zalinsky: Good, you've pinpointed it. Step two is washing it out.

 

[Shirtmaven]

the chocolate clothing smelled great. I would think that smelling faintly of chocolate might attract the opposite sex.

little kids toys are often scented with Vanilla.

BUt.. I can not walk into a Thomas Pink with out feeling disgusted. Not because the shirts are poorly made and overpriced, but because I hate the scent that is sprayed in the stores
Carl

 

[anon]

Originally Posted by Shirtmaven

the chocolate clothing smelled great. I would think that smelling faintly of chocolate might attract the opposite sex.

little kids toys are often scented with Vanilla.

BUt.. I can not walk into a Thomas Pink with out feeling disgusted. Not because the shirts are poorly made and overpriced, but because I hate the scent that is sprayed in the stores
Carl
I think if my shirt smelled like chocolate I'd just be hungry and eat all day, making me fat & unattractive.

 

[Parker]

Originally Posted by youngscientist

Wouldn't be unheard of. I don't know a lot about it from the clothing end, but I remember reading in various science magazines that companies were paying to have signature scents developed that they could treat their products with, yet another step in branding.
So it could be that, or it could be they picked up whatever scent was blown around the shop they were sold in, I take it is not a scent they could have encountered in your house?
Hey, maybe you are just developing some form of synesthesia.

I'd heard about retailers developing their own scents for helping consumers get in the buying mood. The M&O store is pretty overwhelming, similar to Thomas Pink. I don't really notice this at Brooks. You're probably right that the clothes have just picked up residual scent from wherever they we're stored or made.

 

[JPYPSU07]

Ladies love the smell in the Abercrombie stores for some reason as well. It just reminds me of sorrostitutes in college.