Does anyone understand what I mean, when I talk about that really nice, comforting smell of the hotel corridors at Disneyland Paris?
I don't know what/where it comes from. But I would imagine it's something they put on the carpets to clean them. Some sort of carpet cleaning product. It smells really pleasant :-)
It's the little things that matter, isn't it. I've noticed it too. But I think it might just be some generic carpet cleaner that our minds now associate with Disney. Still, the smell never seems to change, so they certainly have a long-lasting supply contract :)
I know exactly what you mean! That smell always make me feel really at home! :D :D :D
Glad I'm not the only one :-)
Yeah it's a kind of familiar, homely, reassuring, comforting, relaxing smell. I love it.
If someone can find out the name of the product used that creates it, that'd be cool. Some kind of professional-grade carpet cleaning thing.
I know exactly what you mean :D . I thought that I was the weirdo who pays attention to such things. Apparently I'm not alone :lol: .
I've noticed this to and i love it :wink:! At Sequeia there is a nice smell in the check-in/lounge to, which i've first noticed last year, is being send out through the plants every 10th minute! Oh, i can't wait to go again :)
I always find the smells in the Davy Crockett cabins amazing, I always feel at home, warm and happy when I smell it. And even if a bit of it stays on my clothes when I get home, I feel like I am right back there, every time :)
Disney Hotels smell exactly like the Alton Towers Hotel's to me.
Maybe they both use posh carpet cleaner.
The amount Disney and Alton Towers are both charging they can afford it!
There was a very interesting thread about this on Disney Central Plaza. My French is horrible and I was in a hurry, but I believe the gist of it was that it is not the carpet cleaner (as everyone guesses), but in fact a very expensive perfume dispenser system something or other. Or at least according to these people.
In any case it's very clever. Smells have a huge effect on your mood or memory of something even if you're not conscious of it. I'm sure there are statistics out there proving that people are 87% more likely to return to a hotel if it smells nice, or something to that extent.
Here we go:
http://disneycentralplaza.englishboard. ... =fragrance (http://disneycentralplaza.englishboard.net/disneyland-paris-f6/la-fragrance-du-disneyland-hotel-t7152.htm?highlight=fragrance)
So you can have this scent at home for only €1500 plus €360 per refill.
For the first time since I was 5 we will be staying in a Disney Hotel at the start of September, and now im intrigued!
:lol:
I know what you mean! I like this smell, too. I think that most of the hotels use such parfumes.
It gives you the feeling that everything is clean and so you have a good feeling for staying there.
I'm so relieved it's not just me... I always thought it was just something in my head. Once I asked my husband if he smelled anything and he looked at me as if I were crazy.... Only once he commented on the smell, we were in the DLH and the smell (almost like incense) was very strong (too strong according to him)
Quote from: "pussinboots"There was a very interesting thread about this on Disney Central Plaza. My French is horrible and I was in a hurry, but I believe the gist of it was that it is not the carpet cleaner (as everyone guesses), but in fact a very expensive perfume dispenser system something or other. Or at least according to these people.
Wow. Is that true? So how do they dispense it? Is it just something in a bottle that the maids spray when they clean the rooms each day, or is it pumped into the air conditioning system?
Needless to say, at the price quoted, I won't be buying any for home use :-) Shame, because it's much nicer than febreze.
Aww yeah I know what you mean about the smell :mrgreen:
It's one of the best parts of the hotels it smells so good and as soon as I smell it I feel relaxed cause its like 'I'm here' now :mrgreen: I also think the same about the noises too :lol:
OMG, yeah, I'm not the only one ;)
I love it. Especially in the corridors of Sequoia Lodge.
Home sweet Home =)
I loooove the smell of hotel Cheyenne! Especially in the corridors and check in area :D :D It makes me really happy :D :D lol
Quote from: "SophieD"I loooove the smell of hotel Cheyenne!
I've not stayed in a Disney Hotel for several years now, but... I still remember this too, and particularly at Hotel Cheyenne. Every day when leaving or returning to the room I'd actually think "it's so clean and homely and cosy!". I never thought this quite as much at Santa Fe, with its smaller blocks and small corridors.
Seems like money well spent!
Quote from: "never2old"I'm so relieved it's not just me... I always thought it was just something in my head. Once I asked my husband if he smelled anything and he looked at me as if I were crazy.... Only once he commented on the smell, we were in the DLH and the smell (almost like incense) was very strong (too strong according to him)
I know exactly what you mean about this,I think the smell is more like woodsmoke ,and we always smell it when we go in through the revolving doors of the DLH !! Think ,like the other scents , it is meant to give a homely appeal to the hotel ;making you think of the welcoming log fire burning etc ! We have some room fragrance that smells just like the woodsmoke in the hotel,and we always have happy memories when we use it !! :)
Quote from: "SophieD"I loooove the smell of hotel Cheyenne! Especially in the corridors and check in area :D :D It makes me really happy :D :D lol
We were in the cheyenne in January and the smell in the corridor was weird (Billy the kid)..by the end of the wk though we didn't notice it as our nostrils must have got used to it!!! :lol: It was like a damp caravan smell but the room was really nice! =D>
Quote from: "never2old"I think the smell is more like woodsmoke ,and we always smell it when we go in through the revolving doors of the DLH !! Think ,like the other scents , it is meant to give a homely appeal to the hotel ;making you think of the welcoming log fire burning etc ! We have some room fragrance that smells just like the woodsmoke in the hotel,and we always have happy memories when we use it !! :)
Can you buy some sort of spray or candles that produce a burning wood smell? You know, that delicious smoky smell of a log fire? Do you know of a product? I'd love to have it :-)
The room spray we have ,which you can also get as a candle ,is by a French company called Diptyque ,a few places stock it including SpaceNK.The actual fragrance is "Feu de Bois" and smells exactly like the sweet,smokey scent of a log fire. The smell is wonderful,the downside is that it isn't cheap :( !! but a little goes a long way and brings back great memories of the DLH for us !!
Thanks for that info. It seems to be about £31.31 for a bottle of Wood Fire fragrance.
Quote from: "Alan"Thanks for that info. It seems to be about £31.31 for a bottle of Wood Fire fragrance.
Not exactly £4.99 from Tesco then,but haven't found anything else like it !!
That's a funny topic because it is exactly what happend on our last day in Disneyland.
We returned from DLP on friday. We had dinner at Inventions an the whole Disneyland Hotel smelled very loveley. It was exactly a smell I am searching for years now. It was something with vanilla inside. Hubby thought it was with cinnamon too.
I wish I knew what the smell was. The whole hotel was covered in it. :P It was very strong but I loved it.
It's funny isn't it. As humans, we have very sophisticated tools for capturing and identifying images and sounds. But smells? What? Forget it :-) It's really hard to capture a smell or identify it. Smells are like magic to us. They're mysterious.
Quote from: "Alan"It's funny isn't it. As humans, we have very sophisticated tools for capturing and identifying images and sounds. But smells? What? Forget it :-) It's really hard to capture a smell or identify it. Smells are like magic to us. They're mysterious.
Just on the note of magic smells lol It was last summer before my sisters wedding and we'd gone up to Grinkle Park and on the drive home we had the windows down and I swear I smelt the smell from Star Tours! :lol:
Quote from: "Alan"It's funny isn't it. As humans, we have very sophisticated tools for capturing and identifying images and sounds. But smells? What? Forget it :-) It's really hard to capture a smell or identify it. Smells are like magic to us. They're mysterious.
Indeed. Something about our noses being connected to a more primal part of our brains, one that doesn't deal with conscious thought but with emotion and place memory.
Which is why a smell can remind us of a certain mood, time or place, but we can't fully verbalize what it is we smell, and must thus settle for analogies like, "it smells like a log fire."
The upside is that an evil corporation like Disney can take advantage of that. Having Main Street smell like cookies or the hotels of snug log fires is essentially changing customers' moods, persuading them to buy things and to have fond memories of ludicrously overpriced hotels for years afterward.
It certainly works on me... I just realized my least favorite hotel had hallways that faintly smelled of manure.
Quote from: "burntsienna"Just on the note of magic smells lol It was last summer before my sisters wedding and we'd gone up to Grinkle Park and on the drive home we had the windows down and I swear I smelt the smell from Star Tours! :lol:
We were watching a show a few months ago, and they had some smoke on stage that drifted into the audience, and BOOM - half an hour of reminiscing Rock 'n' Roller Coaster 8) :P
Quote from: "The Butlin Boy"Quote from: "burntsienna"Just on the note of magic smells lol It was last summer before my sisters wedding and we'd gone up to Grinkle Park and on the drive home we had the windows down and I swear I smelt the smell from Star Tours! :lol:
We were watching a show a few months ago, and they had some smoke on stage that drifted into the audience, and BOOM - half an hour of reminiscing Rock 'n' Roller Coaster 8) :P
I love it!
Now I just wish my home would smell like the hotels lol! I'd be like I was there all the time...though I'd be awfully disappointed when I'd step outside and find my street and not Disney :lol: :(
Quote from: "The Butlin Boy"We were watching a show a few months ago, and they had some smoke on stage that drifted into the audience, and BOOM - half an hour of reminiscing Rock 'n' Roller Coaster 8) :P
I've had that before too, though it was a long time ago. I really want to smell that sweet smell again, back when all 10 smoke machines used to work! I've actually considered getting a small smoke machine before... :lol:
Smell seekers, the quest has come to an end.
I'm pretty sure I found the the comnpany providing the special smells. It's a france fragrance company called Lampe Berger, located in Paris.
I needed a fragrance for one of their fragrance lamps as a present and I tried different probes. First smell I found was Sequoia Lodge. Then I was absolutely sure about the next one. It was exactly the same smell as inside the Disneyland Hotel. The smell I was looking for such a long time now. I would recognize it anywere in the world.
So I'm very sure, this is the company, responsilble for all the typical hotel smells.
So it's not a carpet spray we are looking for. It's a room scent.
Sounds very good, more details please. What are the scent's names? Can you provide links, if possible?
I bought the DL Hotel fragrance and it is called Poussièr d'Ambre (Amber Powder) Series Oriental Dreams.
I don't know it it is allowed to post a link, but just search for Lampe Berger and I'm sure, you'll be able to find it.
I'm not sure but Sequoia Lodge was Cedre du Liban (Virginia Cederwood) or Teck de Borneo (Borneo Teak Wood) (think it was Cedre).
Both are from the Oriental Dreams Series too.
The fragrance itself it quiet cheap but the lamps are very expensive.
My mother was given this fragrance called "Paul Smith London" that smells EXACTLY like Hotel New York. Take a whiff the next time you're in a department store. It's really strange.
:offtopic: but doesn't Discovery Arcade always smell of popcorn or something? :lol:
Im going to sound very sad now..... But
I used to work in a restaurant, and we had an large ice making machine in the cellar, that made ice for all the bars. This machine smelt exactly like Splash Mountain (something to do with the water and purification i presume).
I could regularly be found with my head in the machine, right in it, breathing deeply dreaming of Splash Mountain
Last September when we stayed at Sante Fe, I had a really bad head cold. Every morning at 5am I would wake up with a badly stiffed nose. After sitting up for about 10mins, it would clear but once I'm awake for 10mins I find it impossible to go back to sleep.
So I would get dressed and head outside for a cigarette (booo, disgusting). Leaving the room, I used to always love that hotel corridor smell, plus it was mixed with a feint wiff of those little mini Mickey Mouse branded soaps as the cleaners had left their trolly outside my room all week (and no I didnt help myself to 1000's of little soaps. Well, okay maybe 10)
That smell always made me feel better/safe/at home, and I hope that Newport Bay smells the same in 3 weeks time. Although this time there will be no 5am cigarettes. I'll have to think of another excuse.
(P.S. How bad would it look if someone was walking down the corridor, only to find a full grown man lying on the floor sniffing the carpet :? )
Quote from: "Pete's Dragon"it was mixed with a feint wiff of those little mini Mickey Mouse branded soaps as the cleaners had left their trolly outside my room all week (and no I didnt help myself to 1000's of little soaps. Well, okay maybe 10)
Post of the Day ! :lol:
Quote from: "Pete's Dragon"it was mixed with a feint wiff of those little mini Mickey Mouse branded soaps as the cleaners had left their trolly outside my room all week (and no I didnt help myself to 1000's of little soaps. Well, okay maybe 10)
Ahh, the Mickey soaps! For me, it's when I see one of those in my hotel room that I know I'm truly at Disneyland! I can't help but take a couple every time I visit... my collection at home is rather on the large side!
Quote from: "Cendrillon"Ahh, the Mickey soaps! For me, it's when I see one of those in my hotel room that I know I'm truly at Disneyland!
I see them in my own bathroom everyday, they stretch the entire length of the window sill. Well they would if you moved the Mickey Mouse shower gels and shampoos out of the way. :mrgreen:
I feel exactly the same. There is really a nice smell in the DLP Hotels, I like it. You come into the Hotel and you fell that you are at home :D
Attention anyone who loves the smell of Hotel New York!
We have accidentally found an aftershave that smells just like it - Joop Homme (pink bottle)
My sisters boyfriend wears it and me and her kept sniffing him the other day. When I put some on a stick in Boots it wasnt the same, think it needs to be on your skin.
But its exactly the same smell!!! Might need to buy some for my boyfriend's christmas...