Product: Air Freshener
Scent your World   (+1)  [vote for, against]
Freshen everyone else's breath, for a change.

In Tokyo, it is common for folks to walk around wearing cotton surgical masks or the paper versions thereof. Wearers are 1) sick, and doing everyone a favor, 2) allergic to whatever is in the air that day, or 3) just reluctant to breath unfiltered air on a packed subway. Although this looks kind of weird, it is a habit that could well catch on in other parts of the world, especially in this time of geopolitical instability.

My product: scented oil that can gently, slowly release a pleasant smell of your choosing, a few drops of which may dripped onto said mask before you head out in the morning. It could make the morning subway-commute significantly more palatable. This would also be useful for workers who operate under high-stink conditions.
-- EvilHomer, Mar 18 2003

air pollution in Tokyo http://www.kankyo.m...nglish2001/ap_1.htm
[po, Oct 05 2004]

Elizabethan pomander?
-- brenna, Mar 18 2003


How about nose plugs and a filter that goes inside your mouth? That way New Yorkers wouldn't piss on you for being disrepectful to their smog and germs.
-- DrOuD, Mar 19 2003


Can I have an ether-scented one? Thanks. I need thatt bbbeeecccaaauuus..........
-- Cedar Park, Mar 19 2003


...you want to pretend your Hunter S. Thompson?
-- bristolz, Mar 19 2003


DrOuD: we'll make an exception for you, and piss on you anyway.
-- DrCurry, Mar 19 2003


Ah, the traditional New York greeting .....
-- 8th of 7, Mar 19 2003


Ok, pediatric pre-operative breathing bags hardly constitutes baking of this idea. I also think you have a long way to go until you get to the Michael Jackson stage. Another beneficial application: international flights in Asia, where people are now donning masks to combat the new super-pneumonia virus.
-- EvilHomer, Mar 19 2003


// ...you want to pretend your Hunter S. Thompson? //

<aside>My theory on Mr. Thompson: you write because no one can understand you when you try to speak.</aside>
-- waugsqueke, Mar 19 2003


I didn't say it was complicated. Maybe if I could work in a clock somehow . . .
-- EvilHomer, Mar 19 2003


Like perfume in a hanky...that's what made civilization possible centuries ago...
-- pluterday, Mar 20 2003


//Although this looks kind of weird, it is a habit that could well catch on in other parts of the world//

A nice idea and timely now
-- pocmloc, Sep 27 2021



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