Scent to annoy us?

Those TV adverts which feature lots of people marching, backwards & forwards, half dressed, through lakes, etc.

When you get to the end of the advert, what are they advertising?

Yes, a bottle of perfume!

Surely, if they feel the need to spend all that money on advertising, people would prefer them just to CUT THE PRICE!

It must get people going, of course, as they wouldn't do it otherwise.

Note: some of the Christmas Ads are good!

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Some of the car ads are like that too, you have no idea it's a car ad, til the end. You do obviously when you've seen it again & again.

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The perfume ads have become very tedious, they are all very similar and usually end with someone muttering something in French 'Hon he haw'

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I rarely watch television. Eggheads, snooker, and F1 racing.
And yes, the ads irk me."Compare the meerkat......."

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Yes the perfume adds are beginning to smell a bit old and mouldy.

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Good thread title

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Most Adverts don’t register with me.
I mentally switch off from the arty farty ones, where women are walking through golden lakes draped in floaty scarves or cars are driving through mountain scenery with some stirring classical music backtrack. I hear the music but my mind can’t be bothered to try to grasp what the Ad is for.

If I find an Ad amusing or cute, I may remember it better but still often forget what product it is advertising.

The only exception being the Flash Advert with the big white dog in the bath ... that’s a brilliant adaptation of a brilliant song .. Where has all the mud gone? Flash .. cleans up .. the impossible!

I like the Christmas Ads with Kevin the Carrot too, I know it’s for one of the big cheap supermarkets - maybe Asda? Not sure.

I thought the new John Lewis Ad was rubbish at first - and a ridiculous waste of so much money - but the cute smile of that dragon is growing on me. I never shop in John Lewis, though.

Do any of these adverts really make people buy the product or brand?
I suppose the company bosses and advertising gurus must think they do, or they wouldn’t spend so much money on them.

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Hi

Aftershaves which make you a success with women?

It is a joke.

Eau de Credit Card is the only one which works.

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Smell-O-Vision has been tried so the technology does exist but ----

Can you imagine how some rather risqué programs would come across?