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Ah, the rewards of a random internet perusal. I found
here a place where you can buy smells to
enhance your game-playing. This unique business was founded by a former special
education teacher who was looking to add a multisensory experience to game
playing. It's hard to find scents for Dragon's Lair and Abandoned Castle on the
market, so she started hand-crafting her own. Now players can enhance their
board games, RPGs and LARPs.
I’ll take this
directly from the site:
SMELL THIS!
“The Adventure Scents line contains funky fragrances
based on common adventure locations. We've got your fandom covered with themes
from fantasy, science fiction, historical, modern action, and horror.”
You can order Dusty Attic, Ancient Library, Desert
Caravan, or Fairgrounds: “Behind the cheerful façade of kettle corn, cotton
candy and funnel cakes, lies a dark and twisted secret.”
What I find most interesting is the way they allow you to
search for your product – they offer you a handful of "search
strategies" such as by adventure location or by a costume. These are
useful ways of categorizing smells, but you would never see this in any other
market.
And then, they list other ways to enhance your games,
including Jelly Belly. It's funny to see, in a world where virtual reality is
no longer around the corner but right in front of our face, that the ways to
heighten our fantasy experiences are multifaceted and multisensory, not to
mention – pretty low-tech, considering.
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