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struggle4progress

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Sat Apr 21, 2012, 09:39 PM Apr 2012

MacBook Unboxing Smell Becomes Fragrance

By Daniel Ionescu, PCWorld Apr 18, 2012 10:01 AM

The smell of a newly purchased Apple product has been reproduced for an art gallery in Australia ...

The final scent encompasses “the smell of the plastic wrap covering the box, printed ink on the cardboard, the smell of paper and plastic components within the box and of course the aluminum laptop which has come straight from the factory where it was assembled in China.”

Creating the scent was not easy. Fragrances with the aroma of glue, plastic and rubber were commissioned from France, where perfume makers unboxed a new Apple laptop and tried to source the fragrance samples ...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/254034/macbook_unboxing_smell_becomes_fragrance.html

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MacBook Unboxing Smell Becomes Fragrance (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2012 OP
A bit of acetone or hexane might help as well.... ;) Pholus Apr 2012 #1
If I really wanted to smell like a Chinese factory, I could have... Systematic Chaos Apr 2012 #2
Still not as expensive smelling as... PoliticAverse Apr 2012 #3

Pholus

(4,062 posts)
1. A bit of acetone or hexane might help as well.... ;)
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 09:41 PM
Apr 2012

I always wondered how they came so perfect looking. I think after hearing about what they do that I'd rather tolerate the occasional smudge.

Systematic Chaos

(8,601 posts)
2. If I really wanted to smell like a Chinese factory, I could have...
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 09:42 PM
Apr 2012

...just not washed the shirts I just ordered online before wearing them.

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