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Certain aromas spark creative thinking, others alertness, yet others assist analytical thinking... or so the theories go.
Aromatherapy Buildings are built with the best of New Age thinking in mind.
Desks that exude lemon fragrance, carpets that release a scent of freshly mown grass when you
walk on them, filing cabinets that release a burst of "late afternoon thunderstorm" when opened, computers that pump a cool, slightly salty, slightly fishy sea breeze into the air with the expelled cooling air, walls that leave a lingering memory of chocolate-almond croissant on your hands, when touched...
Happy, shiny people, with cheerful smiles and pleasant dispositions. Anything would be better than grumpy old Muriel and her cloying stench of cheap perfume.
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I don't see these as synthetic aromas. I want something that is the real thing. If I was to go to this much trouble to make a building smell right then it stands to reason that it use be authentic aromas. |
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The worst one is that horrible fake strawberry smell. Damn, that's bad! |
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//Happy, shiny people, with cheerful smiles and// nostril extenders. |
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//I want something that is the real thing. //
So desks made of lemons, turf carpets (like that!), pastry walls (wouldn't last long round here) etc. I don't know how you're going to herd a late afternoon thunderstorm into a filing cabinet but it'd be fun to watch and as for the sea breeze computer erm.....no idea how.
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If they're real nice sniffysniffs though, I'll have to give you a croissant (although I shall snatch it away if you don't explain how to grow desk shaped lemons) but it's gonna take a whole heap of papaya scented printer ink to cheer my boss up. |
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(and [FJ], what in the hell are nostril extenders?) |
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keep up with the plot, squeak. |
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I didn't say we were breeding desk-shaped lemons, just making the desks smell like lemons, real lemons, not the ones used in washing powder. |
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As for the sea breeze computer, just put a bag of beach sand and a few cuttle shells inside the box, and filter the exhaust air through it. |
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I think this would 'do my nut in'. I'd probably come into the office in the morning grumbling about "new age odour, freakin' nonsense". |
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Unless I could smell ylang ylang - but that wouldn't help me work though. |
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AAahhhhhhh! I see. Apologies [po], for being slow. It's early in the morning, dontcha know. |
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(oops. just checked time 12:03. I knew the whisky was a bad idea last night). |
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A desk made from some
naturally-scented wood would be
nice - Cedar, perhaps. Failing that,
I'll just have a normal wood desk
polished with beeswax. And lots of
basil, rosemary and sage plants in
pots where people will brush past
them and release the scent. |
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That would just make me hungry. Rosemary makes me think of roast lamb. |
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Perhaps the office should have a
lamb roasting on a spit as well? |
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That could be the smell the photocopier emits. It would be better than the scorched paper stench they put out. |
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I like it, but I suspect you'd run into problems with the anti-scentists. We live in a day and age where school boards dictate the use of unscented anti-perspirants and the like. Hogwash, but fragrance is not PC. |
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I couldn't give a rat's ass if I'm PC or not. I just don't like loads of different smells coming from all directions, I don't like them smelling plasticy and I don't like them to be too strong. I had to move tables *outside* a restaurant not so long ago because the lad on the next table was wearing so much aftershave and scent etc. that it made me feel physically sick. |
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Subtle wafts of scent, hints of delicious fragrances floating on the breeze. That's what should be aimed for. Not sinus-clearing, nauseating walls of pong. |
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I'm good with that. I used once work with a woman, whose... liberal (is a good word)... use of scent was enough to make Vietnam veterans break out the chemical warfare gear. |
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I'd like my computer to exude the scent of jasmine please. It's a shame that it's so hard to get a convincing jasmine scent (other than from the actual flowers). |
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The star jasmine in my front garden is in full flower at the moment... heavenly. |
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Isn't this sentence an oxymoron? |
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//the best of New Age thinking// |
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They've almost finished blooming down here [UB] due to an unusually hot early spring. Such a shame. |
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We have all of the jacarandas out, at the moment. Beautiful. I must get some shots in New Farm Park, to post to you. |
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could you not have some sort of computer system so that you could have themed scents you know one day fields of poppy and another the amazon jungle depending on what type of motivation you actually need |
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Although all those scents smell good, I don't think it would be too fun to have all of them bombarding you at the same time. |
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