In 1960, movie theaters tried Smell-O-Vision. The short-lived experiment pumped scene-appropriate scents into cinemas. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. On January 6, 1960, 'Scent of Mystery' premiered in Smell-O-Vision in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. It was a complete disaster.

When movies made the leap from silent to sound, production companies had their eyes on the next sensory frontier in entertainment. So in 1939, they attempted to bring smell into the cinematic experience. The Smell-O-Vision, a system that piped prepackaged scents from under movie theater seats, made its debut at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City. It didn't go as planned. Audiences complained that the scents were out-of-sync with the movie, overpowering, or simply unpleasant.