Thread: Anyone tested Sinister Scents yet?

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Curious how people that have used it would describe the various scents... the website I see just has basic titles, no description.

Interesting website. I would also like to know if the scents are true to life. Could add a nice twist to my haunted house.

Originally Posted by wilbret

Curious how people that have used it would describe the various scents... the website I see just has basic titles, no description.

I've been afraid to try them, but I found a review from a blog on the web:

Friday, February 10, 2006
The Smells That Hurt So Good
Oh boy.

Last night, my friend Dave and I sampled five scents from Sinister Scents, a company that produces fragrences for haunted houses. The idea is, if you wanna scare 'em with sight and sound, you should smack 'em in the nose, too.

Here are our impressions of those five aromas:

1) Haunted House. Easily the best of the bunch. It smelled like decaying wood and nighttime, and it was subtle but effective. If you were walking through a mock-up of a decaying old house, smelling this would definitely pump up your fight or flight.

2) Burning Wire. Nasty without punching you in the gut. Smells like something electric is about to malfunction in your general area. Very distinctive.

3) Gothic/Frankengrave. This was okay at best. Dave thought it smelt like bad cologne and, although I do know goths who smell like bad cologne, it just wasn't distinctive enough to work for me.

4) Hell. We thought this Hell smelled like nutmeg. So, unless Satan's bakin' up some pumpkin pie, I'm not buying it.

Finally, off the scale . . .

JUST BAD. Such an understatement. Just Bad rips your nose off and yells at it for being a coward. I thought it smelled like electrified baby diarrhea. Dave took one whiff was done. I kept sniffing, and the smell followed me around like a mugger. If this were in your haunted house, it would beat up all of the other scares and terrify customers all by itself. I have to be a little proud of Sinister Scents for creating what I can only assume is a demon in scent form.

All in all, if you have a Halloween party or haunted house, you're letting yourself down if you don't at least consider Sinister Scents for your event, you weenie. Our nose holds so much power over our brain and, tepid reviews of Hell and Gothic/Frankengrave aside, Sinister Scents lets you wring more fear out of your party guests. Anything less is . . . well, wimpy.

Smell ya later

John

Thanks for the blog post.

They also have a fog juice additive. I'm curious about it...may end up buying it and being a test monkey.

Originally Posted by wilbret

Thanks for the blog post.

They also have a fog juice additive. I'm curious about it...may end up buying it and being a test monkey.

Gunpowder would be cool for my pirate stage, but I'm afraid it will linger...

evilbob, a real quick way to make a gun powder smell is to just light matchs every now and then. =D

THANK YOU for printing that review!!!!
I laughed so hard that I almost got myself in trouble. It's "payroll hell week" here so thanks for the relief....GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Originally Posted by BATFLY

evilbob, a real quick way to make a gun powder smell is to just light matchs every now and then. =D

Good idea!

Originally Posted by Aunt Sissy

THANK YOU for printing that review!!!!
I laughed so hard that I almost got myself in trouble. It's "payroll hell week" here so thanks for the relief....GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Yeah. His blog makes me not want to try them, lol.

I think they had just bad at Busch Gardens a couple of years ago.
In a, most disgusting bathroom scene in a asylum. it smelled horrible