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Vintage Girl
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 Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:21 am Post subject: The sweet smell of car parks |
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| Quote: | Aromas such as roses, baking bread and cut grass are to be piped into "smelly" car parks more commonly associated with the stink of urine and vomit.
A survey by car park firm NCP found the smell of car parks was driving away as much as a third of potential custom.
The company is using new technology to pump pleasant smells through the stairwells of its busier sites, such as London, Birmingham, Leeds and Cardiff.
Flowers came top in their smell poll, then mint, cut grass, bread and fruit.
Bubblegum, coffee and even petrol were also considered favourite fragrances. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7967251.stm
I have to park on the top level of the car park I use as that is the level allocated to season ticket holders. It's also the area that all the air vents from all the food outlets pump out to, so the smell is unbelievable, as is the noise.
I think I would prefer a natural outdoor smell, like privet......I love the smell of privet.
What would you like to smell in your car park?
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muppetmurderer
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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hmmmm, depends who is in the car with me at the time.... 
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Vintage Girl
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Assume you are alone MM, as I imagine you are most of the time! 
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muppetmurderer
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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I think the smell of freshly baked bread might be nice, though for some reason, I have always loved the smell that you used to get from the old 'Roneo' copiers that they used, way back in the early part of last century when I was at school.....
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wakeyboy
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I think any overbearing food smell that then becomes associated with a car park would be quite nauseating.
I think they need to pump in fresh-air/outdoor/clean smells.
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