The musk of marvel comics action figure, Stinkor, as described in a post on Basenotes blog. The doll feature a scratch’n’sniff pad that releases a musky odor as the are interacted with and come packaged with a booklet aptly entitled “The Stench of Evil”. I wonder if children who played with Stinkor have stronger memories of this particular doll than his unscented colleagues?
The larger question of the article raises the potential carnal delight in musky smells after a long period of clean/fresh scents in the nineties marketplace. And begs the question, after the 20th century modernist’s banishing of smell from design and the individual… is body odor back?
