Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Something In The Air

What is this recent obscession with perfume?
Endless ads, insulting the intelligence of every female on the planet, for room fresheners.
'Aroma' has become the new 'hygene' - if it smells nice, then it must to be clean!!
It seems that everything now has to smell of something other than what it is supposed to.
Carpets, fabrics, cars - fragrances to mask everything from pets to sweat - feet to fish. Armies of stepford wives convinced into paying a fortune on a weekly basis to make sure their loos arent talking about them behind their backs!
Not content with being harangued into spraying every orifice to mask anything resembling a natural bodily odour, now it seems, we are threatened with having it piped into the air conditioning units of shopping malls to assault our nostrils while we are out buying the very stuff we have to mask the smell of in the first place!
It seems its not enough that we have to have our ears battered with the same compilation cd's in every damn shop we go into, we will now have the indignity of being fumigated with 'tropical island' or 'summer freshness' or some other misnamed stench.

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