If you’ve ever wondered what it smells like to play Street Fighter, your prayers are about to be answered. Capcom has teamed up with a company called Code Meee to create Gaming Fragrance, a line of scents designed to smell like fighting styles from Street Fighter 6.
I know, I threw a lot of very confusing information at you there. Ingried, Juri, and Ed are the lucky roster members to have been selected for Gaming Fragrance duty, but yes, you read right. Their respective scents are not based on how the characters themselves might smell, but on their chosen fighting styles.
The goal of the officially licensed scents is to add smell to the checklist of things you need to be just right before you settle in for an intense Street Fighter 6 session. “Sound, check. Lighting, check. Temperature, check. Hydration, check. And one thing you might be forgetting: scent,” the intro on the Gaming Fragrance website reads.
So, what exactly do these fighting styles smell like? Ingird’s scent is “grapefruit and leafy green”, apparently. Meanwhile, Ed’s scent is infused with bergamot. That’s the orange oil used to flavor Earl Grey tea, just in case you’re having trouble placing what...
