Corporation Pumping Soothing Gas Into New York Subway Station

https://futurism.com/future-society/corporation-subway-station-scents

In what it’s calling an “aroma ad,” home goods and fragrance corporation Bath & Body Works is pumping vanilla and fresh pine scent from diffusers attached to steel girders in the tunnels connecting the subway beneath Grand Central Station in New York City.

As The Associated Press reports, commuters’ olfactory senses are being assaulted by the “Fresh Balsam” scent as part of a promotion campaign in collaboration with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

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tal@lemmy.today · 80 pts · 268d (3 replies)

Calling using scent diffusers "pumping soothing gas" sounds more than a little clickbaity.

Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com · 13 pts · 268d

I clicked expecting chloroform.

BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 268d

I know, they sell these at a smaller scale for your furnace/ac units, you just clip them onto the intake.

They are honestly pretty great, but i'd never classify them as 'soothing gas'.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 267d

True

Having said that, piss off with your marketing crap, companies

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 46 pts · 268d (1 reply)

And all the sensitive people who break out in hives and loved it when work had a scent free policy.

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 268d

I don't break out in hives but I can guess being in that subway would immediately give me a sinus headache.

ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 268d

That’s nasty it’s just gonna smell like piss and pine and vanilla

discocactus@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 268d

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1104052

"Fragrances, particularly terpenes such as limonene, are associated with secondary chemical reactions in indoor air and can contribute to the production of formaldehyde, glycol ethers, ultrafine particles, and secondary organic aerosols (Nazaroff and Weschler 2004; Singer et al. 2006). Exposure to fragrances has been associated with a range of health effects, including allergic contact dermatitis, asthma and asthmatic exacerbations, headaches, and mucosal symptoms (Heydorn et al. 2003; Kumar et al. 1995; Steinemann 2009)."

ephrin@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 268d (3 replies)

That Pax is gonna turn them into Reapers…

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 268d

ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 268d

I'm like a leaf on the wind, see how I soar.

chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 268d

Break the chains.

HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 268d

Oh, they did their research and are claiming it is totally safe! I am relieved, thank you big corps

WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org · 6 pts · 268d (1 reply)

They are just getting ready for the genocide.