Feb 25, 2009 07:19
15 yrs ago
English term

scientific patina

English Science Cosmetics, Beauty
With its scientific patina, Clinique would have saleswomen wearing laboratory coats and wielding penlights to carefully examine the skin of customers.
Change log

Feb 25, 2009 07:19: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"

Feb 25, 2009 07:51: Jack Doughty changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

PRO (3): Yasutomo Kanazawa, Edith Kelly, Jack Doughty

Non-PRO (1): Max Nuijens

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Responses

+5
23 mins
Selected

pretending to be scientific

saleswomen do not usually wear lab coats so the company wants to create the illusion that a lot of research and science went into the development of the products
Peer comment(s):

agree Jack Doughty
8 mins
agree Soledad Caño
37 mins
agree Max Nuijens
50 mins
agree Lalit Sati
1 hr
agree Gary D : Pretence of having been coated with (made out of a great scientific discovery)scientific knowledge.
3 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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