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My inner child can smell this fucking picture.
I can smell this picture
The only way out is through the perfume department
Eli5, anyone ?
This is the perfume area of a department store, which were often located near one of the major entrances.
Walking through it is usually a bombardment of different smells, and it can be a lot.
The joke is that you have to go through the horrible perfume tunnel to get to where you want to go inside the store (or the mall, if connected). It can be especially bad around the winter holidays and when it’s cold out, which is why everyone has long sleeves in the photo.
A lot of places you could go around, it was just a longer walk.
This is also a screenshot from a spongebob episode, a really trippy one where they were trying to escape from a ghost ship, and they go through different dimensions only to wind up back on the ship. This was one of those dimensions.
I didn’t realize this was literally from the episode! You can see a border. Thanks for pointing that out!
As a fun(?) aside, according to the fandom wiki one of the writers has a fear of department store perfume sections, hence that part of the episode.
Perfume section stinky, many scary people try to sell you things, can’t get to toys without going through them :(
Thank you
For whatever reason, on every mall I’ve been to, you have to go through the perfume section to get between the escalator, interior doors, and exterior doors to leave the department store.
I have a very sensitive nose, and so this was torture for me. Even as an adult I would hold me breath the whole time.
Are you no longer an adult now that you are a pirate?
Like the rest of us, they just no longer visit department stores, or the mall.
Then what does being an adult have to do with it?
I was also an adult the last time I visitted the mall, years-ago. Were you an adult the last time you went to a mall? Has that changed in the manner of “was an adult but now am not”? Is you a pirate now, or a Benjamin Button?
Would there be a difference had they been a child?
Yes. Children are often more sensitive to senses due to less exposure to block them out.
…I don’t get it. What is this?
The perfume/cosmetics section of a department store (Macy’s, J.C. Penny, etc.) Typically located near shopping mall gallery entrances to force people to walk past it to get elsewhere in the store.
It’s less common to see stores intentionally laid out this way these days, I think.
An airport
What’s so bad about it? I don’t mind them.
The feeling of not being able to breath properly when I inhale there is pretty unpleasant imo.
Bijan for men?
Drakkar Noir?
Hombre?
Ah, yes, my bad. It was Hombre
Drakkar Noir was a Family Guy joke
Reasons I spent waaaay too much of my youth training at holding my breath.
