Charlotte hotels desperately try to counter stench

Charlotte Observer ^ | August 4, 2012 | Celeste Smith

[CrazyIvan]

I long for the good old days when politics smelled like cigar smoke.

[NonValueAdded]

Oh, I thought they meant after the DNC convention.

[Venturer]

I would bet the one hanging in Obama’s compartment is Vanilla.

[WorkingClassFilth]

The company made a pitch to DNC officials to create a signature scent to use at major events.

I know the winning recipe: 1 part marijuana. 1 part freshly polished jack boots. 1 part patchouli. 1 part spent 7.62 X 39 shells. 1 part graft money. 1 part detonated semtex. 1 part stained Oval Office carpet. 1 part blood and fear smell from Lubyanka KGB prison in Moscow. 15 parts bovine excrement. Oh, wait! They already reek of those things. Oh well, back to the fragrance lab . . .

[OrangeHoof]

I wonder how much it would cost to produce a scent that makes people subconsciously favor tax cuts? Surely the Koch Brothers would pony up the money to fill the convention hall with this.

[RetiredTexasVet]

At least one hotel should have the appropriate smells for queers, freaks and perverts. Possible research should be done in SF bathhouses, LA porn studios, and other hotel that have hosted gay pride marches, etc. to get that exact authentic smell that these patrons strive for. I’m sure that they will be able to book up very quickly once the word gets out.

[null and void]

“And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here.” [crosses himself] “And it smells of sulfur still today.”

[BBell]

Will there be any soma to go with the scents?

[anymouse]

Charlotte, may I suggest:

[hapnHal]

What about the smell of rotting fish?

I was told a fish rots from the head FIRST!

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Obama got to go!

[Praxeologue]

That was part of my job, to develop inciting scents in the lobby and restaurants in Westin’s Hotel in Houston in 1972.. I have been using this in every food and beverage establishment, that I have owned or operated since that time..

Don't ionizers do the same job, without the scent? Are ionizers as effective as a scent?

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“No matter what Charlotte does, they won’t be able to cover up the stink of the ‘Rats.”

My thinking too. Smell-nice stuff before the convention is an easy thing. Overcoming the stench the Rats will leave behind may take years. The odors of our horses’ droppings are pure perfume by comparison.

Now, one other thought...think of the stench that will be linguring in the White Hut after the present usurpers are finally evicted...

[Covenantor]

That was part of my job, to develop inciting scents in the lobby and restaurants in Westin?s Hotel in Houston in 1972...

In about the same decade our firm had a fragrance and flavor mfr seeking to move their Long Island plant. Received a quick education in that arcane business. Quickly learned to wear casual clothes on plant visits. Clothes became saturated with All the plant atmospheric smells. Being built like an NFL lineman but smelling like all the south of the border bordellos was no way to walk through mid-town Manhattan.

Even the correspondence reeked of that combo smell.

At the first meeting in the client's Manhattan office's which contained the small formulating labs we were introduced to the 'noses', the exception people that could detect the various nuances. At the big sit down in the conference room I was surprised to see the 'noses' sit down and immediately pull out TWO packs of cigarettes each. They chained smoked through out the meeting.

The big deal for the industry at that time was embedding scents in various plastic polymer compounds, an example of which are the cedar scented platic storage bins.