A few weeks ago, I accidentally bought a large pack of scented tampons. Theses things happen – you’re in the supermarket, it’s that time of the month, and you grab the first pack of tampons you see without really studying the small-print. I mean, tampons are tampons. How different can they really be?
It’s not that the scented tampons smelt bad or anything. They smelt mainly like a medium-priced floral airfreshner; perfectly pleasant but basically bland. But why? Why perfume tampons? I try to imagine the Research&Development meeting which came up with this idea: “hey, folks, there seems to be a heck of a lot of tampons on the market – how are we gonna differentiate ours?"
They probably ran over all the existing varieties, applicator v non, organic v non. Did they discuss making different colored tampons and decide that was a stupid plan? Did they scratch their heads, the people in this meeting, and say “women need tampons. Women like perfume…dear god I’ve got it!”. Is this all a hideous joke being perpetrated on the American public? Why oh why would anyone think that there was any point scenting an item that is to be placed inside the body?
I mean, where does the company go from here? Will we soon have flavoured tampons too? And will I be stupid enough to buy them?
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