What do baseball stadiums smell like

At Olympic competitions, ancient Greek athletes covered themselves in perfumed oils to prevent stadium dust from sticking their bodies. They performed foot races in the nude largely because that made it easier to massage perfumed oils into their bodies, which was regarded as an omen of victory. Some olympic winners were awarded olive oil filled bottles. Olive oil was a very valuable commodity. The Romans scented everything including their public spaces.

It was during the reign of Emperor Nero, who ruled Rome from 37 AD to 68 AD, that the first gymnasium was built and the large scale patronage of violent sporting competitions became a symbol of Roman power. Nero was so enamored with the scent of roses that he had silver pipes installed in the dining rooms of his home, The Golden Palace, so that his dinner guests could be spritzed with rosewater. According to one legend, one very costly waterfall of rose petals actually smothered one of his guests, killing him.

He was also known to dispense sprays of rose-water into the stands of the Coliseum after chariot races and violent gladiator fights to the death. Scented sprays were also used provide a pleasing atmosphere for the game spectators at the amphitheater at Pompeii. There are two main aspects of scent marketing. Ambient scenting simply serves to fill a given space with a pleasant smell, while scent marketing refers to the development of a brand-specific signature scent, such as an olfactory logo.

Click to learn about our mission and plus decades of experience! The global perfume and fragrance market has sustained continued demand during the last few years, and is projected to reach USD Most consumers make about 10, decisions every day, and many revolve around buying all sorts of of items at diverse levels of necessity.

No mater how controlled or sales resistant we think we may be, purchases are made impulsively and our brains are on autopilot when we shop. According to behavioral economist, George Loewenstein, scents trigger our brains because they hold the power of a personal memory. They captivate human brains before they know what hits them. Many studies have indicated that scents can compel consumers to spend up to twice as much as they would have otherwise.

Research conducted by Martin Lindstrom, a pioneer in the relatively new field of research known as neuro-marketing, which combines marketing and psychology, offers insight into consumer reactions while viewing brands or products. The technical term for this scanning is functional magnetic resonance tomography aka FMRT.

Lindstrom also coined the phrase, buyology , referring to the subconscious thoughts and emotions that trigger the purchasing decisions consumers make every single day. In , specifically, there is a burgeoning trend to match fragrances directly to lifestyles that has been very successful when scenting stadiums and sports arenas.

The idea is to develop an unforgettable experience and forge an emotional trinity between team brand loyalty, the fragrance and the consumer.

Recently, a new scent program launched at Marlins Park baseball stadium in Miami included the smell of caramel popcorn in the general concourse areas to appeal to families and the nostalgia associated with going to games as a family unit.

Last December, fans in the crowd observed the distinct-aroma of a burger and fries during a Cowboys-Jets game. There are pieces of Shea that we wanted there that are missing. As much as I hate this comparison, look at Yankee Stadium, which I know you have, and tell me how it IS like the two versions of the still-standing original Yankee Stadium, true to the sense of what the real fans want.

Morton, About the reduction in seating capacity: In San Diego we went from 72,seat Qualcomm stadium to our downtown Petco Park which holds roughly 44, fans. The logic is simple. The average attendance to a major league game is roughly 25, to 30, throughout the season.

There will only be a handful of full sell-outs with a 44, seat venue. It makes NO sense to build a colossal stadium which will be less than half-full most of the time. The costs of construction and staffing and other security issues linked to closing off nearly half the stadium every night are ridiculous, to say NOTHING of the loss of the intimate feel of a true old-fashioned ballpark experience.

In San Diego, until we got the new ballpark downtown, the Padres management closed the upper deck of Qualcomm and covered the seating with huge dark blue tarps. It was like that for years. Venues with 60, and 80, seats exist for mixed use, where the football team fills the place in the Fall. In the newer ballparks you can sit closer to the plate on the top of a building outside the park than you did in the right-field stands of many of those old super-stadiums.

Any run that the batter truly bats in is an RBI, including sacrifice flies and including getting walked or hit by pitch if the bases are loaded. As I watch the opening game at the newly minted and already hated Yankee Stadium, I notice that it has many more seats than the Citi. I accept the logic of your letter as it applies to the league in general but I believe some cities should be accepted.

I like having the option of deciding at the last minute to go to a ballgame as do many, especially Mets fans who were brought up with that legacy. I assert again that building a grandstand on top of the existing plan was feasible and would not have affected the intimate design of the rest of the stadium. A certain prodigious hitting catcher from the Mets wore that number during his one year stint with the Padres in Of course Piazza was there that night since he caught the honorary first pitch thrown by Tom Seaver.

But 31 is retired in San Diego Winfield so he wore 33 with us. And I am probably the only uber Piazza fan geek who noticed that connection as Gerut rounded the bases! Surely you could come up with something better.

While it is true that the entire area WAS once a dump, the beauty of Shea Stadium was in the eye of the beholder, and true Met fans saw the beauty that was Shea Stadium. When Shea was built, the design scheme incorporated some relatively new ideas in ballpark planning. The accomodations that enabled the field to be utlized for football had flaws in retrospect, but it was an engineering feet at the time. Ebbets Field was a dump. It reeked of urine. It did not have any accomodations like modern ballparks.

Yet, it is remembered so fondly that the Wilpons attempted to rebuild it. The Mets were an expansion team in and for their early fans they represented the hope and promise of the era. They were not building on the nostalgia for the past but the dreams of what could be possible in the future.

The Wilpons have failed to realize what their team was built on. Aside for a brief stay at the Polo Grounds, the Mets created their own tradition. They do not need a ballpark that echoes of an age before automobiles — they need a ballpark that reminds us of the jets that fly overhead and the changes that they brought to us.

The Mets, as exemplified even before , brought a new life and attitude to the game. The fans embraced that spirit. The Wilpons have buried that spirit in a vein attempt to recreate their own childhood. Citifield, for all the hoopla, is nothing more than a cookie-cutter stadium of the last 20 years. Visit Philly, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, etc.

It is a modern ballpark with modern conveniences, but it is wrapped in faux panelling. Would I have replaced Shea Stadium it if were up to me? They also fail their own past — they are no longer the innovators and have ceased to be the breathe of fresh air that inspires fans.

They are just another ballclub from New York. The Mets and major league baseball are wearing blinders. They do not see that the fancy seats and the high rollers they are expecting are not the fans that will support and perpetuate this game. When the Minnesota Twins made their playoff run in , eventually becoming World Series champions, the entire state of Minnesota was emotionally sky-high for a full month.

Louis Cardinals in seven games in the World Series. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. In the summer after my eighth birthday, my parents brought me to Yankee Stadium for the first time and gingerly explained that the building in which we sat had been built way back in Weeks later, a Hastings-On-Hudson village program of some sort sent a busload of us kids to the upper deck at Shea Stadium.

While the now-leveled stadium was a genuinely praiseworthy attempt to mix civic expenditure with private business, and use modern technology to build a facility suited to both football and baseball, it was a dump from day one.

Also, that Rotunda looks very retro at night — especially with Rickey and Robinson on the wall there. Also, if CitiField averages even half the oddities of this opening night, it will be a place of weirdness not unlike Ebbets Field was.

Somebody decided that the best way to christen a ballpark replacing a stadium notorious for 45 deafening seasons in the flight paths of LaGuardia was to have a military jet flyover complete with near-sonic boom. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg got a foul ball off the bat of Fernando Tatis in the 9th Inning, even though he was sitting behind the home plate screen.

Six innings earlier, a stray cat desperately trying to exit the field leaped onto the low fence directly in front of New York Governor David Paterson.

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Old Comiskey once the stockyards closed mostly smelled like smoke, stale beer and very old vomit, particularly in the lower-level concourse down by the right-field corner. The popcorn machine by the main entrance was nice and provided a nice, locally heavy smell-but the prevailing one was the other one.

The New Comiskey, now that the new-plastic stink has mellowed, has settled into smelling like the food court in a suburban mall. There are worse smells see "Old Comiskey" above. Yankee Stadium smells like a cellar. Shea, too. Kind of dank, like an old subway station. Dodger Stadium smells like clean.

My mother would like the smell of Dodger Stadium.