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Fastfood Perfumes Edit
The Burger King Flame Lets You Smell Like A Cheeseburger


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The Burger King Flame Lets You Smell Like A Cheeseburger
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Burger King has resorted to inventive marketing strategy recently; undoubtedly as an attempt to capitalize on a credit crunch market that favors cheap and fast food. Combine that with the powerful psychological impact that scent has on memory, and you get the Burger King Flame. 

No, this is not a new cheeseburger grilled and wrapped, it’s a scent. Burger King is marketing their new fragrance, Flame as a sexy product. I know whenever I think sexy I immediately think of onions, and cheese…and mustard oh, my!

The site to market the scent, firemeetsdesire.com, opens with a romantic bath scene, complete with bubbles and petals. But don’t expect roses in this fragrance, it actually smells like meat.

This isn’t the first time Burger King has used sex in a bizarre ad campaign; their recent “Whopper Virgins” has a distinctly sexual tone. 

My question is this: would you really want to smell like Whopper?

References:  firemeetsdesire, dlisted

Filed In:  food interactive lifestyle marketing






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Bianca Bartz on Dec 16, 08  4,469 Trends   3,530 Comments
It's already bad enough when someone has pickle breath, but imagine the potency of this! My nose already picks up if someone has eaten at Subway in the last three hours, so this would just be cruel to my olfactory senses!
Bianca Bartz on Dec 16, 08  4,469 Trends   3,530 Comments 0
Jennifer Astle on Dec 16, 08  74 Trends   159 Comments
I know, when I was in high school I worked for Subway (yes, and I hate to admit it). When I would get home it would take an hour long shower just to get the smell of food off of me, I can't imagine why anyone would want to smell like it...
Jennifer Astle on Dec 16, 08  74 Trends   159 Comments 0
Ayman Helweh on Dec 16, 08  2,236 Trends   2,640 Comments
Haha, I know what to get Jeremy & Jacob then!
Ayman Helweh on Dec 16, 08  2,236 Trends   2,640 Comments 0
Sandra Winn on Dec 19, 08  423 Trends   1,248 Comments
Does the BK King mask creep anyone else out, or am I alone?
Sandra Winn on Dec 19, 08  423 Trends   1,248 Comments 0
Ayman Helweh on Dec 19, 08  2,236 Trends   2,640 Comments
It's no more creepy than the McDonald's clown, lol.
Ayman Helweh on Dec 19, 08  2,236 Trends   2,640 Comments 0
Bianca Bartz on Dec 19, 08  4,469 Trends   3,530 Comments
I would say it IS creepier than Ronald, and I have severe clown phobia. I wonder if these mascots are only scary to adults, because you never hear kids freaking about them...
Bianca Bartz on Dec 19, 08  4,469 Trends   3,530 Comments 0
Sandra Winn on Dec 19, 08  423 Trends   1,248 Comments
I feel the same way Bianca! As for Ronald McDonald, he's the only clown who doesn't scare me. Ever since I watched Poltergeist as a kid, other clowns have freaked me out.
Sandra Winn on Dec 19, 08  423 Trends   1,248 Comments 0

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