Ah, That Scent Simply Drives Me . . . Away?

Question from Feb. 9:

Earth Solutions offers a product called the HairScenter that uses a blow dryer to apply aromas to the hair. If you could bottle a scent and market it in this manner, what would it be?

Something Mrs. Clinton should have used: a secret scent that drives women away from married men.

--SANDRA COSIO

Montebello

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I would bottle and market some common sense to blow onto hair and, hopefully, seep into brains. Society could use the sense more than the scents.

--SHARON KARP, Los Angeles

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Bottle a bakery scent of fresh bread just coming out of an oven. Fresh bread scent spritzed around the room at mealtime. Ahhhhhh!

--MIDGE HUSTING

Huntington Beach

KATHY JAMES, Cypress

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The smell of pine. For dwellers of this smog-infested city, it would be a welcome relief.

--BART RICHARDS, via Internet

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A scent combination of baby powder, cookies and a wood-burning fireplace blown on politicians to enhance their family values pitch.

--WAYNE E. SCOTT, Camarillo

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The Mike Tyson scent. This shows women you’re ready, you’re waiting and you’re not in your prime anymore.

--EMMANUEL RUSTIA, Chino Hills

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That freshly showered scent. Think how good you feel when you step out. Wouldn’t it be great to smell and feel like that all day?

--MICHELE SULLIVAN, Tustin

Question for Feb. 16: Ken Kesey recently released a CD series of Neal Cassady narrating the Further bus tours of the ‘60s. What other seminal events should be available on CD?

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