Everyone knows them, fragrance or wonder trees. Sometimes they smell of lemon, sometimes of coconut, sometimes of woodruff or strawberry. Even in my younger years as a car owner, I had such scented trees hanging on the inside mirror. Or fastened to the belt on the back seat. The reason was very simple: I used to only drive old used cars. My first car, a Golf 1 GTI, had already had 110 other owners before me and it smelled accordingly in the vehicle.
And if you drove to the parking lot at the weekend with the most up-to-date disco elevation, you naturally wanted to create a romantic atmosphere for the following intense entertainment. And what were the girls?
Well - the smell of apple was not particularly popular, nor was lemon really - but coconut and cherry, that made the scent tree an olfactory love mill accelerator. Of course, this miracle tree also helps if the drunk buddies spilled alcohol in the car again - or had the meals go through their heads again. Whereby I was often on the verge of releasing the recently expensive scent tree for oral use.
But - where does this rescuer of all the troubled used car owners come from?
Purely by chance, during the presentation on the “fragrant future” of the S-Class, I had a conversation with a trend researcher and before I saw the Scenting system of the new S-Class In a short excursus, they told me the story of the Wunderbaum:
It was probably 1951 when a Canadian biochemist and businessman - incidentally with German roots - started talking to his milkman. Back then, milk was still brought from door to door in a glass bottle and anyone who has ever had the experience of spilling milk in the car should know - how it may have smelled in this milk truck - whenever a drop of milk landed in the truck dried up there in unreachable corners. Julius Sämann took on the milkman's odor problem and scented a box using chemicals.
A year later he founded the company “Car Freshner” in New York State.
“Wunder-Baum®” is a protected brand name and may only be used for the original scented tree produced by Little Trees, the company of Julius Sämann.
Today, I rarely use fragrant miracle trees because the nature of the application just bothers me. Theoretically, you should, in order to experience no fragrance overkill, remove the plastic packaging only one centimeter per week down. But everything annoys me in the car and hangs around.
Since I like the idea of Daimler people already better 😉