are perfume samples okay to put in cache

[+garynlyssa]

I work in the perfume industry and always have so many perfume samples and I thought it would be fun for the adults to be able to get something fun in a cache besides all the toys and stuff for the kids but I am not sure if it is a bad thing to put in a cache. Just let me know.

[Neos2]

They will attract animals to the cache. Anything with a scent will.

 

So no candles, no play-do, no samples, no food, etc.

 

It's good you asked.

[+BlueDeuce]

They will attract animals to the cache. Anything with a scent will.

 

So no candles, no play-do, no samples, no food, etc.

 

It's good you asked.

 

ayep.

[+Mule Ears]

Anything with fragrance is a problem. I found this ammo-box cache completely destroyed. The scented item the bear was after? Lip balm. Goes to show that everybody in Arizona hates chapped lips.

 

Just thinking out loud--the perfume samples might be OK in a more urban cache.

[+wimseyguy]

No, please don't put them in caches.

 

Nothing smelly (nice or unpleasant), liquid, or edible should ever be put into a cache.

[+Moose Mob]

Even in an urban cache some newbie will grab it and take it into a more remote location, only to have the wildlife drag that cache out of it's hidey hole and rip it to shreds.

[+Mule Ears]

Even in an urban cache some newbie will grab it and take it into a more remote location, only to have the wildlife drag that cache out of it's hidey hole and rip it to shreds.

 

Ah, good point.

[+J-Way]

And anything that's liquid will eventually leak during the heat of summer or freeze during winter. I had the entire contents of a cache destroyed by a bottle of bubble solution.

[+flask]

add to that the fact that some of us will have bad reactions to perfumes.

 

i can't predict which scents will send me home for the day. most scents people wear have aired out sufficiently by the time they leave the house to make a serious difference, but those little samples are fresh enough that they could kill me.

 

if you've ever had to miss a day of work because somebody wore fresh perfume into your workspace, you'd prefer not to see samples in the caches you visit.

[+Lasagna]

And anything that's liquid will eventually leak during the heat of summer or freeze during winter. I had the entire contents of a cache destroyed by a bottle of bubble solution.

 

Yep ... that happened to me too. Someone put a little bottle of bubbles (like they give out at weddings nowadays) into my cache and a local critter sniffed it out and chewed open the container (a decon) to get at them.

[+DavidMac]

Are you referring to those one-inch long thin vials with the plastic lids?

 

 

I have seen (er, smelled) more than one cache that was essentially ruined because somebody left one of those little perfume vials. My personal experience has been that they always leak in caches, probably due to expanding/contracting air spaces when the temperature changes. The smell permeates anything in the box, as well as the hands of anyone who touches the contents.

[+WeatherednBoston]

I love perfume samples! What kind do you have?

[+TheAlabamaRambler]

Spilt perfume in a cache reminds me of some of the close-encounters-of-the-*gag*-kind I have had in elevators.

 

Bad idea. Really.

[+garynlyssa]

thanks for everyones input. I will not be putting perfume samples in any caches. I just purchased some cool geocoins and travel bugs, i will stick with those!

[+blb9556]

Anything with fragrance is a problem. I found this ammo-box cache completely destroyed. The scented item the bear was after? Lip balm. Goes to show that everybody in Arizona hates chapped lips.

 

Just thinking out loud--the perfume samples might be OK in a more urban cache.

 

NO

Edited August 23, 2008 by blb9556

[+THEHIWAYMAN]

Dont Mosquitos like perfume and smelly stuff.... How bout a DIVERSION cache about 50 feet away from GZ with spilt perfume sugar and a human finger... so as to atract the mosquitos to the dummy CACHE so I can log my visit without needing a transfusion after the hunt...

 

What do you all think??? good idea huh

[+Juicepig]

i have put car freshners in cache placements (my caches, new caches) in bear country - They were securely bagged, and I never had a problem with them..

 

Of course they smelled like pine trees.. so maybe the bears just didnt bother..

[PastorJon]

And anything that's liquid will eventually leak during the heat of summer or freeze during winter. I had the entire contents of a cache destroyed by a bottle of bubble solution.

 

Yep ... that happened to me too. Someone put a little bottle of bubbles (like they give out at weddings nowadays) into my cache and a local critter sniffed it out and chewed open the container (a decon) to get at them.

 

Oh dear...

 

I'm guilty... it didn't even cross my mind. Maybe I ought to go digging around in my logs to see if I can figure out where I left them.

 

My sincere apologies to anyone affected by my two wedding bubble vials.

[JohnGGeo]

I would think that after a good week in a cache

1. The Cache will smell

2 Would any one else really want a prefume sample after someone else has rubbed all over themselves.