This document discusses how different senses impact consumer behavior and marketing. It explains that scents can create mood and memory associations for consumers. Marketers use scents in products and promotions to influence consumers. Sounds also affect feelings and behaviors, as different phonemes and music tempos can create different moods. Touch sensations are basic and impact product experiences, and Japanese kinsei engineering translates customer feelings into design. Taste is cultural and changing, as flavor trends and ethnic food popularity influence desired flavors and taste test results can sometimes be overcome through repositioning.
2. Scents
Scents
Odors create mood memories:
Coffee = Childhood, home
Cinnamon buns = sex
Marketer use scents:
Inside product
in Promotion (e.g.,scratch 'n sniff)
Consumers love love of fragrances has
contributed to a very large industry because this
3. Sound
Sound affect peoples feeling and behaviours
Phonemes: individual sounds that might be more
or less preferred by consumer
i brands are lighter than a brands
Muzak uses sound and music to create mood
High tempo = more stimulation
Slower tempo = more relaxing
4. Touch
Haptic senses or touch is the most basic
of senses; we learn this before vision and smell
Haptic senses affect product experience and
judgement
Kinsei engineering is a Japanese philosophy
that translates customers feeling into design
elements
5. Taste
Flavor houses develop new concoctions for
customer palates.
Cultural changes determine desirable taste
The more respect we have for ethnic dishes,
the more spicy food we desire
Sometimes taste test failure can be
overcome by repositioning the product. For
example, Vernor ginger ale did poorly in a
taste test against leadingginger ales