Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences
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Series Vol. 26 , 13 September 2023
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Looking back to history, scent marketing applications can be traced to 4500 years ago in Ancient Egypt. Scent marketing has emerged as a powerful tool for businesses looking to create memorable experiences for customers. This strategy involves using specific fragrances to influence consumer behaviour, create an emotional connection with the brand and drive sales. In recent years, scent marketing has gained popularity among businesses of all sizes and across various industries. Currently, scent marketing around the world are mostly used in certain areas in business such as chain-hotels, luxurious shopping malls, and high-level cruises. However, whether or not it is effective and should be adapted in other fields like small food and clothing retail, entertainment centers like cinemas, or offices and libraries remains uncertain. By using research from analyses of real applications of scent marketing, interviews with professionals and shop owners, and big data on people's attitudes and changes in popularity, we came to the conclusion that scent marketing has a high application value for those companies that are suitable and innovative. In detail, based on research, we find out that scent marketing has the average effect of improving 17% of sales, 24% of brand image, and 27% of customer satisfaction. Therefore, research on scent marketing based on real-case application analysis for end users emphasizes a research process and an analysis of what kinds of companies are suitable and innovative to apply scent marketing and what effects these companies can expect to get.
scent marketing, marketing, fragrance marketing, business, retail store
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