# Las Vegas smell **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 14, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-smell/557170 "2010-10-14T20:00:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-smell/557170/21 "2010-10-18T13:07:44Z")
You can buy the Venetian scent, if you’re so inclined. They sell is as perfume in the gift shop, La Fortuna. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-smell/557170/22 "2010-10-18T14:58:37Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > The smell I smelled wasn’t inside, and it was a nasty smell. I wanted to get out of the area right away. [QUOTE=dmatsch] If it’s in Vegas, I would assume that the casinos spent millions of dollars researching the exact smell that they could release onto the gaming floors that would relax their patrons enough for them to let their guard down and wallets open. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=rayman5321] Bingo! [/quote] Ah, so that’s their cunning plan. INSIDE, scents that make you want to open your wallet. OUTSIDE, scents that make you want to go INSIDE. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-smell/557170/23 "2010-10-18T15:14:07Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Ah, so that’s their cunning plan. > > INSIDE, scents that make you want to open your wallet. > OUTSIDE, scents that make you want to go INSIDE. the 117 degree weather does a fine job of that with no olfactory component. ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-smell/557170/24 "2010-10-18T15:55:10Z")
It’s puke. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-smell/557170/25 "2010-10-18T18:19:42Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > Several casinos have, over the years, had the practice of releasing extra oxygen into the ventilation system late at nights, to make people feel a bit more alert and ready to keep gambling a bit longer. But oxygen does not have a smell. [Snopes humbly disagrees.](http://www.snopes.com/luck/casino.asp) Do you have a cite for a Vegas or Atlantic City sanctioned casino pumping extra oxygen into the gambling areas? ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-smell/557170/26 "2010-10-19T01:44:26Z")
Could it possibly be a combination of tobacco smoke and stuff they spray or inject into the air vents/purifiers that is supposed to kill the smell of tobacco smoke? Casinos definitely have a distinctive smell (regardless of whether they’re in Vegas, the Mississippi Coast, or Niagara Falls). So do bowling alleys and Holiday Inns. I’m almost certain the Holiday Inn smell is because of some kind of proprietary cleaning chemical that every location must use. Casinos could have a similar cause. Bowling alleys are a combination of cigarette smoke and stale beer and lane oil and pro-grip (although nobody uses pro-grip anymore and you can’t smoke in the bowling alleys anymore here, they still have that same distinctive smell). ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-smell/557170/27 "2010-10-19T04:56:45Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > [Snopes humbly disagrees.](http://www.snopes.com/luck/casino.asp) Do you have a cite for a Vegas or Atlantic City sanctioned casino pumping extra oxygen into the gambling areas? My only cite was having that told to my by employees of 2 different casinos in Las Vegas. So maybe they were just having fun with a gullible tourist? I hadn’t seen that Snopes item before. Oh, another cite – it was a main plot point in a Donald Westlake mystery book. But as fiction, that probably doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-smell/557170/28 "2010-10-19T14:24:12Z")
> [@jasonh300](#): > > Could it possibly be a combination of tobacco smoke and stuff they spray or inject into the air vents/purifiers that is supposed to kill the smell of tobacco smoke? That’s possible. I seem to recall that the “smoke-free” gambling tables had a worse tobacco stench than a bar & grill back home, back before state law kicked smoking out of the bar. ---
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-smell/557170/29 "2010-10-21T19:18:25Z")
Well everything that goes to Vegas stays in Vegas so I imagine its the smell of accumulation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/las-vegas-smell/557170.md?page=1)