I wish the makers of air fresheners would be more specific about what their products smell like instead of having cutesy names like “Sunny Meadow” and “Early Morning Breeze”. What does an early morning breeze smell like? Well, that depends on where you live doesn’t it? It might smell like your neighbor’s breakfast or it might smell like the paper mill a couple of miles away or the skunk somebody ran over last night.
Here where I live the breeze (morning or any other time of the day) often smells like grass, dust and horse manure with, occasionally, a hint of diesel but I seriously doubt anyone is selling that. But even if we cross those kinds of smells off the list of possibilities, there is a whole world full of things that a morning breeze could smell like – forests, grasslands, seaside, orchard country, east, west, south. Each of these places has a different mix of flora that could contribute to the smell of a “morning breeze.” Simply calling something “Early Morning Breeze” does not tell me what it smells like.
We could also point out that the breeze itself does not have a smell at all and that it merely carries scents but that might be a little nit-picky.
October 7th, 2011 - 9:52 am
I drive to work on a street that has a creek alongside it. Water has been low lately and often the Early Morning Breeze smells like something out of a sewer.
I’m also guessing that someone who was a dairy farmer who needed to milk cattle first thing in the morning might not find Early Morning Breeze (at least, out of the cow barn) that wonderful. (Heh: Dairy Air.)
October 7th, 2011 - 4:10 pm
“Early Morning Breeze”… hmmm… this morning, smelled like wet grass, paint, and that silicone stuff the twisted pair telephone cables are full of. (That kind of cable, ladies and gentlemen, is official known as an “Icky-PIC”.)
October 8th, 2011 - 12:16 pm
In a house with four cats, I’d be happy with “Early Morning Febreze.”
October 9th, 2011 - 1:55 pm
Men’s deodorants are even weirder, because a lot of them don’t even bother trying to come up with a “concrete” name for their scent. Instead we get deodorants with names like “Victory”.
October 9th, 2011 - 2:50 pm
And then there’s Axe, where the advertising for their scents is essentially “This will make the clothes fall off of any hot woman in your vicinity” and the reality is “most women really LOATHE the way it smells.”
(Also, my own little hobbyhorse here: dousing yourself in cologne does NOT replace taking a shower. I know college students are busy, but really, you can’t spare that five minutes?)