Aromatherapy boom is getting a little suspicious

(Credit: ThinkGeek)

Are people really so desperate for aromatherapy that they want it plugged into their USB port at all times? Even outside California?

That could certainly be surmised from seeing all the products to come out in this booming mini-market. The latest model, from ThinkGeek, is at least mercifully simple: About the size of a portable thumb drive, the USB Aromatherapy Oil Burner is strictly plug and play--or plug and sniff--and comes with a bottle of rose, jasmine, or peppermint oil.

And at 6 bucks, no one really has any right to complain about it either. As for this whole scented trend, we're beginning to get a little suspicious.

(Thanks, Joe)

[dontthinkso]

I don't THINK so...

Six dollars for the device, maybe... but including such things as rose or jasmine? and calling it aromatherapy.

Maybe call it "a thing to fill your room with cheap synthetic chemicals" might be better...but please don't call this kind of garbage aromatherapy!