Get Equipped With: Air Fresheners
The Connecticut-based fragrance company who call themselves “Epic-Scents” announced at the San Diego Comic-Con last week that, as part of a partnership with Capcom, they will be debuting their new line of video game-themed scents with Mega Man’s “Cool Rush” and Proto Man’s “Apple Cinnamon” air fresheners.
“We really want gamers to know that we are making a fragrance that is an experience of who that character is,” Epic-Scents project director Jim Kavanaugh explained to The Verge. “We’re not saying this is what Mega Man the metal robot smells like, this is a fragrance that expresses him.”
“The whole concept was video games and fragrances,” he continued. “It has been done in the past, but not by people with the experience. There is a lot of passion for video games here. When we select a character we want to select a fragrance that is an expression of that character.”
As the scents themselves go, Mega Man’s “Cool Rush” is the result of the perfumers attempting to “capture the essence of a boy put into a man’s role.” “There is a purity in him, he has a real pure heart,” Kavanaugh said, “but there is also masculinity, and bravery.”
Meanwhile, Proto Man gets “Apple Cinnamon,” which is “kind of spicy because he’s a bit of a rebel,” says Kavanaugh.
“There are strong ties between memories and fragrance,” Kavanaugh said. “We want to tie that fragrance to that character, when you use our air fresheners you will remember the nostalgia of playing that game.”
The air fresheners will begin hitting some stores in the next two to four weeks, with national availability coming this Fall. Kavanaugh said that they hope to expand into the realm of “fine fragrances” like perfume and cologne. Kind of a shame they aren’t leading with those, given that the Summer convention season is shifting into high gear. In any case, they should be affordable enough for most any Mega Man fan, with a retail price of $3 each.
Epic-Scents doesn’t plan to stop with Mega Man, though, and is asking people to tell them on Facebook which characters they would like to see represented. Just try to resist the urge to suggest MegaMan Volnutt, as that would likely result in a fragrance which combines loneliness, despair, and a thick layer of dust.
Source: via Yahoo! Games Plugged In
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Tags: air fresheners, cologne, Epic-Scents, Mega Man Classic, Merchandise, San Diego Comic Con, SDCC
Filed under: Mega Man News
I’ve been waiting for this glorious post all day. That Proto Man’s a bit of a rebel!
@pstart: Apparently everyone was.
Calling It: Mega Man Deodorant
This company really wants my money, so I have no qualms passing it along!
Capcom really needs to stop making pointless toy franchises and start making Megaman games
I’ll totally buy these when they come out. You can’t beat the price, and I can have Mega Man or Proto Man dangling from my rear view mirror! Finding my car will be a piece of cake then!
@Okami: I was wondering when one of you would show up.
“Warg, no more awesome merchandise! Games only! Warg!”
it smells like megaman?
to oil?
to oxide?
OMG, I want a box!
megafragance brbrrrbrrbrr
all robots woman will love me
@Phaelin: He does have a point though. I would love to see another Megaman game, a new one if possible but if they ever want to continue a game like the Maverick Hunter X series I wouldn’t refuse either.
I love all the merchandise and comic attention that Megaman has been getting lately, but maybe actually having a game to keep up the series would be good too. And I’m not asking for something like Legends 3 or X9 (if they do, that would be a pleasant surprise), but perhaps at least a game to fill in the missing gaps in the Megaman series’s plot? For instance, The classic to X transition? Elf Wars? But I digress.
Maybe fans should buy air fresheners and send them to Capcom of Japan; then the smell will make it so that they can think of nothing BUT Mega Man, and thus finally make a new game.
He doesn’t have a point, because it’s not like Capcom is directly making all these things and taking away resources that could be used to make a Mega Man game. They just license the characters out to the other companies to make merchandise. Merchandise that helps keep Mega Man in the public consciousness, so that when they do make that next game, people will notice.
I’d be happy for a new game to be announced any time now, but blaming all the toys and comics and air fresheners and artbooks as if games can’t come out because of those is dumb.
The idea is nice I guess? Still airfreshners are a plus. Totally make my car smell like megaman. LOL. Now we need is the smell of Batman!
@AdventZ
Capcom doesn’t want to make money through games remember? Its good business sense. Not to sound like a total asshat ,but thats kinda the vibe I get everytime someone mentions Capcom should be making games of Megaman and this what I imagine what Capcom be coming up for their daily excuse as to why there isn’t a Megaman game. Don’t get me wrong now I would love to see a game ,but this is the year of the fans and megamerch. And yes the first line is sarcasm. The rest is my neutral approach of I how imagine Capcom be like this year.
@LBD
Like the blue, red, green, cupcakes right?
And of course before someone bites my head off the merch is nice I would love to have some these items that are mentioned. I would love to decorate my lack luster room with something megaman related other than the games I own which decorate my game library with pride.
*Proto whistle* Hey, I hear Proto Man! Wait…does anyone else smell apple cinnamon?
ManwholovesRockamusic: Perhaps; I’m just envisioning an environment which absolutely reeks of what Mega Man is about, as they say here, thus forcing all who dwell within to be able to think of nothing else.
I don’t think cupcakes would have the same effect as advertised.
MAN, that Volnutt joke made LOL so hard.
Bass would smell like roses, then? Because it seems nice from a distance, but when you get real close it smells like…
I almost said what in the world does apple cinnamon have to do with blues until I read the rest. Megaman’s scent has the better and more exciting name than Blue’s scent though.
Despite the fact that this is just air fresheners, a little recognition is better than none. A game would be much better though obviously.
@LBD
Just put it out there to be funny ,but to some extent I think sending the airfresheners might do something.
I’m waiting for the Volnutt flavor that smells like failure.
Omar: So you’re saying he gets more than one?
LBD: Oh yeah! I forgot the smells of defeat and hopelessness.
It’s…adorable actually. I don’t know how else to describe it!
Might be fun to have one.
Now I gotta have a fanwork where someone says that Proto Man smells like apple Cinnamon! Maybe Cinnamon could tell him that…
@Alexx; Heh, that made me laugh. XD
Kinda thinking about purchasing the Protoman one. Are they availble through the internet? Cause no store in my country would sell them.
I missed this the first time through…
Okami Delta: “Capcom really needs to stop making pointless toy franchises and start making Megaman games”
…you do realize Capcom doesn’t make this stuff, right? It’s all licensed out to people who do make such things?
Heck, for all we know, Epic-Scents approached Capcom; seems more likely, given they’re starting a line, than the other way around. I think that’s how licensing usually works, anyway.
http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/household-safety/tips/air-freshener-dangers1.htm
I love mega man merch… but air fresheners? seriously? wtf? of all the awesome kickass mega man stuff that they could be making….
those things may be health hazards too… so.. yeah… sucks.
give me merch that I can use and won’t kill me! give me stationary, writing utensils, dinnerware, party supplies, posters that just say mega man and not mega man 10… something! not a freakin’ air freshener!
I can see it now…
you mega man fans all smell the same!
Erikthered: What other sort of merchandise would you expect from a company called “Epic-Scents” who specializes in fragrances?
I mean, you don’t go to McDonald’s and say “I don’t need a burger, I need car insurance! Why aren’t you offering car insurance?”, do you? ;P
scented markers, cologne, perfume, scratch and sniff stickers, potpourri even?
Well, they did say they were working on colognes…