Chad Clark's Open Journal : 2008-01-10

1) Cookie scent prompts purchasing more.

The CBC story reads:

  67 per cent of women assigned to a room with a hidden cookie-scented
  candle were more likely to make an impulse sweater purchase, even when
  told they were on a strict budget. By comparison, only 17 per cent of
  women in a room without the scented candle decided to make the impulse
  buy.