Scent marketing in Hotels

During a recent stay at the Renaissance Paris Vendome Hotel, I was able to experience a pleasant example of scent marketing at hotels. The hotel lotions, soaps and shampoo were provided by the well known Italian brand, Bvulgari, mostly recognized for its beautiful jewellry design. The light scent of green tea was refreshing and when applied, it was a reminder that you are pampering yourself with this mini spa treatment. When my friend and I were waiting for the hotel elevators on our floor, we witnessed one of the hotel staff actively spraying the corridors with this familar green tea scent, at 4:00 pm when hotel guests generally return to their rooms before dinner. The hotel receives full marks for its active scent marketing!

Puma's Clever Little Bag

You have to check out how Puma has changed its packaging and how they are introducing it to the market! Clever!

Ask a Nobel Laureate on YouTube

Check out the Nobel Prize YouTube channel, you can pose a question to a Nobel Laureate!

Nobel Prize on Facebook

All the talk about social media has been limited to commercial companies but there has been a lot of marketing activity within the non profit world. Take the Nobel Prize as an example. It is a well established brand in a unique position that uses social media channels such as Facebook, and Twitter,to reach out to new audiences.

Cappucino advertising

Talk about creative advertising. The travel company wanted to advertise some good deals to Italy from other destinations in Europe and what better way to reach the target audience than through their love of cappucino! The travel company teamed up with local cafés and inventively wrote in the inexpensive flight prices in the cappucino foam!

Sensory Branding book announced Marketing Book of the Year 2008 - Sweden

Sweden's Marketing Association named the book "Sinnesmarknadsföring" (direct translation - Sensory Branding) by Bertil Hultén, Niklas Broweus, Marcus van Dijk as the 2008 marketing book of the year. Definitely a book I will check out during the Christmas break.

Sensory branding in Sweden

The hotel chain Rica Hotels announced this week that it has developed its own scent called "Lemon Aid" with products such as scented candles, bath products and a faint scent which will be in the public spaces of the hotel. All the products can be bought at the hotel. The products are environmentally friendly.