Word: aromarama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...olfactions" themselves - supplied from the "library of essences" compiled by "Osmologist" Hans Laube, who perfected the Smell-O-Vision process - are on the whole no more accurate or credible than those employed by AromaRama, but at least they don't stink so loud. Moreover, the gimmick is backed up by a witty script that at times owes as much to Don Miguel de Cervantes as it does to Scriptwriter William Roos. The Todd 70 Process camera is used to flashy effect, especially when it is mounted on a helicopter. And Hero Elliott is a remarkably sly and appealing comedian...
...Chicago, four weeks after the competing AromaRama opened in New York, Mike Todd Jr. finally uncorked his own Smell-o-Vision film. Something less than an attempt to go around the world in 80 whiffs, Scent of Mystery is a whodunit that lacks coherent narrative, is little more than a pastiche of festival scenes, falls on its nose...