Amoy Imported

[kyle618]

well, kahit lumang damit pag pinakarga mo sa balikbayan box then binuksan mo pagdating sa pinas amoy imported pa den. bat kaya? baka nga may ini-spray sila sa mga box.

yup this is true... even old magazines that had no smell whatsoever while in the states tapos i shipped it here... i call this smell "US smell while in the philippines".

This so called U.S. smell can only be smelled if the product came from somewhere in a less polluted state for example .. suburbs in CA. If it came from a more polluted place in the US like in NYC then the smell usually is less but it is still there.

I believe this smell has something to do with the US having fresher air than ours. lets face it when you look at our cities from a plane its covered in smog and pollution. Thats why the fresh air is kept inside the balikbayan boxes and when opened it releases the air from the US. No offense to anyone here but my cousin who was born and raised in the states said it kinda smells here in the philippines. i dont smell anything right now but maybe because we are used to it. Ill try asking my cousin if there's a certain smell when we ship a balikbayan box from the philippines to the us... baka may amoy rin im guessing it wont be good though.

i have discussed this in another forum before and some of them insisted that it was only in my mind that the products smell that because they were from the states but this is not true because sometimes when i get home i know something came, may it be tissues or old magazines from the states i know it because of the smell not because i saw it.

I would like to add that this smell is different from the "new electronics smell" or the "new car smell" or any "new product smell"