Brooklyn Nets Use Signature Scent at Barclay Center

If you think about professional basketball and try to associate it with a scent, you would probably come up with Eau de Locker Room, stale beer or fried food, but an NBA team is out to change that. The Brooklyn Nets is now using a scent various described as "perfumey" "clean"
or citrusy"" to make their arena more pleasant for the fans.

The scent, provided by Scent Air, is intended to go with Barclay's high end look and menu. Barclay Center is a brand new, billion dollar facility owned by Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov.

Scent Air also provides scent marketing for other professional sports teams including the Atlanta Hawks, St. Louis Rams, and Dallas Cowboys.

Spy Kids 4 Movie to Be Scented

The latest movie in the wildly successful Spy Kids franchise is going to be scented with Aromascope. Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World, coming out in August, will be released in "4D" that is, 3D plus the element of scent.

Each ticket will come with a scratch 'n sniff card with eight numbered scents. Moviegoers will be cued onscreen with the numbers so they know when to scratch off the appropriate scents. The scent cards will be distributed free of charge to all ticketholders, regardless of whether the film is shown in 3D or 2D.

Dimension Films, which raked in over $200 million from the last Spy Kids sequel is betting that young viewers will love the extra element of interactivity. They were one of the first to pioneer the revival of 3D movies, with Spy Kids 3D: Game Over. Now, 3D movies are commonplace not only in the children's genre, but in feature films like Avalon and now with home entertainment. Will Aromascope be the next dimension in entertainment?

Nightclub Scenting Replaces Cigarette Smell

Clubs worldwide are faced with a smelly dilemma. In the old days, nightclubs smelled like cigarette smoke, but in many entertainment venues, smoking has been banned. You might think this is a good thing, since most people agree that cigarette smoke smells bad. However, without the strong masking odor of smoke, a lot of other even less pleasant odors are noticeable including body odor, stale beer and vomit.

Researchers in the Netherlands decided to test how people would respond to ambient scenting in nightclubs since club owners are looking for a solution to their smelly situation. They infused three different scents into separate dance clubs: orange, peppermint and seawater, and compared results to the same clubs in an unscented condition. About 850 young club goers were given short questionnaires asking them to rate the quality of the evening, the music, the club and their feelings.

Consistently, those in the scented environment reported that the music was better, the club was more fun, and their mood was more cheerful than in the unscented clubs. Scent also increased the dancing activity in the clubs. The researchers were surprised to see that there was no significant difference between reactions to the different scents; all of the scents had roughly the same effect.

The scientists concluded that ambient scenting is somthing that nightclub owners can use to differentiate themselves from competitors, increase visitor return rate and boost revenue. Scents should correlate with the lights and music, so that high arousal music is paired with stimulating scent. Some innovative clubs are now using "aroma jockeys" who generate and disperse multiple smells throughout the evening that are congruent with the music that is playing.

Sniff Your Way to Profits

I am delighted to be writing my first blog for Scent Marketing Today, and thank Tony for this opportunity.

At my recent presentations for the Luxury Marketing Council in Tampa, West Palm Beach and Miami, I showcased Environmental Scenting Technology, and my focus was all about "Celebrating the Senses". I was delighted to see Spence Levy from Air Esscentials and his colleagues at my Miami presentation.

Many people from all industries are fascinated about the subject of fragrance, but some are a little leery about it because they don't really know much about it or understand it. Today, Scent Marketing is the new branding frontier, and it is a growing industry!

Our sense of smell is the strongest sense that we have after sight and yet it is the most ignored! Without our sense of smell we can’t enjoy food because scent and taste are so intertwined, and as a result people get depressed and their lifestyle becomes severely impacted.

Many Fortune 500 companies are now recognizing the power of scent, and as a result are ‘scent-branding’ their properties to create a memorable experience for their guests, and to ensure return visits to their casinos, hotels, spas, and retail stores. Even corporate event planners are utilizing scent to create a multi-sensory experience for their guests, and are incorporating ambient aromas for themed weddings, events, and special occasions.

Supermarkets are now enticing customers to buy food by incorporating environmental scent in the air.. and much like the Pavlovian response....when you smell the tantalizing aromas of coffee, delicious roast chickens and scrumptious deserts, the cash registers reflect that craving and start to ring as consumers purchase those items.

Today, ambient scenting can be programmed into individual hotel rooms! By selecting your desired scent when you check in at the front desk of an hotel, you can let them know what fragrance you like, and it can be controlled and activated from the front desk so that when you walk into your room, your favorite scent is already wafting in the room! This is an initiative that has already begun in Paris and we are bringing it to the USA. Talk about customization and establishing a home-away-from home ambience!

This particular technology was developed in France by whiz guru Yvan Regeard of Exhalia and Scenterprises Ltd is the USA partner. Our environmental scent presentation is compelling and the product is amazing. We can deliver fragrance though computers, DVD’s, videos and television. Yes! We have Scent-o-Vision in a delivery system that offers amazing aromas for all kinds of interactive, multi-sensory video games, computer programs and TV cooking shows. We have interest from every major fragrance company and also from national Television shows for this application.

We offer 3 product lines to diffuse perfume interactively in association with multimedia contents:

• Scent Marketing products- for fragrance sampling; point of purchase programs, and store events;

• Hospitality Systems product line - Systems for olfactory marketing professionals and for air treatment,

• Home Systems product line-- wonderful ambient home systems

Today there are many wonderful delivery systems from a range of companies for all types of spaces: small, large and medium areas. There are nebulizers which diffuse liquid into vapor which is barely discernible; diffusion through scented pellets with fans; saturated pads that are placed in scent cubes where the air flow draws in the air and then diffuses it through the fan; scented gels which are diffused through digital scent technology through which the scent is synchronized with software and activated via the sound and images in videos and TV television.

The digital world is realizing that the use of fragrance for interactive video games such as “World of Warcraft”, TV cooking channels and flower and garden shows are much more experiential if the viewer can actually smell the wonderful aromas from their computers, DVD’s, videos and television.

Read my articles on environmental scenting in the following magazines:

GLOW BEAUTY MAGAZINE
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5f7fa368#/5f7fa368/124

VUVUZELA MAGAZINE
http://www.vuvuzelamagazine.com/magazine/index.html
see page 26

SCENT MARKETING HAPPI MAGAZINE
http://www.happi.com/expertsopinion/2011/03/03/scent_marketing

My recent interview on blog talk radio by Karen Krymski from “Women Power Up” discussed the world of scenting. It was broadcast live on April 12 and can be downloaded and listened to at your leisure at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/womenpowerup. Log onto Scent Branding Discussion with Sue Phillips.

Fragrance, aroma, scent, perfume….. Whichever name you give it, it is the new marketing frontier for branding, and goes beyond just applying it to a lady’s wrists or pulse-points! It is the most powerful sense we have that triggers memories and emotions. Today, fragrance can seduce us personally and environmentally!

Inhale, apply, enjoy and you and your clients will also sniff their way to profits!!!


Scentfully,
Sue
President, Scenterprises
http://www.scenterprises.com/
sue@scenterprises.com

Scratch 'N Sniff Card Enhances TV Show

BBC in the United Kingdom has partnered with The Aroma Co. to distribute scratch 'n sniff cards to go with their new television show, Filthy Cities. The show will show viewers what it was like in European cities of the past before widespread sanitation.

Residents and visitors to these cities hundreds of years ago had to deal with rotting corpses, bedpans, sewage and a variety of other unpleasant smells. These smells can now come to life to modern viewers thanks to the scratch 'n sniff cards that BBC and the Aroma Co. will be distributing throughout local UK libraries. The cards will be available April 1st.

Billed as "smellovision" this is the first time that smell will be available to the small screen in this low-tech format. BBC is betting that the cards will spark interest in the program and that viewers will be willing to subject themselves to the noxious odors from the past.

New Device Brings Scent to Home Entertainment

Scent Sciences has released ScentScape(R) a digital scent delivery machine that connects to a user's home PC or gaming console to deliver smells relevant to the action.  Scents include pine forest, ocean, flowers and smoke. The scent is delivered via 20 different scent cartridges, which are included with the unit, and the company says that the cartridges last 200 hours or more, depending on usage. The idea is to more completely immerse the player in the game and enriching the gaming experience. Units retail for $69.99.

In addition, the company sells the ScentEditor(R), which allows you to custom choose scents to your home movie viewing. The focus is on nostalgic scents, such as roasting turkey, freshly mowed grass and birthday cake to evoke viewers' memories. All devices are plug and play.

Just imagine, with surround sound, 3D and smell, your home entertainment is only missing the sensation of touching the people and characters on the screen. But, with some of the violent games, that just might be a good thing.

Katy Perry to Scent Concert Tour

The sometimes outrageous pop star, Katy Perry, has announced that she is going to scent her 2011 California Dreams World Tour. The concert's theme will be along the lines of her California Girls video. According to the singer, the concert will smell "like you're in cotton candy heaven." Perry's concerts will be scented by our own ScentEvents. Way to go, Neal!

Perry's use of scent as part of her concert experience is sure to catch on with other performers.

Incorporating scent into live performances is a great way to further immerse the audience in the entertainment experience and connect with them on an emotional level.