Featuring soothing imagery of glittering tropical waters and a scent strip that smelled like vanilla with a hint of cocoa, they looked like a standard perfume ad of the time. But Chelsea wasn’t a perfume. It was, in the words of its marketers, “The first cigarette that smells good.”
— Read more at The Failed Attempt to Market Sweet-Smelling Cigarettes to Women at Atlas Obscura.
Wasn’t Habanita orginally intended to be used to scent cigarettes? Granted, it was sold as a separate product, not incorporated into the cigarettes as they were sold, but still–the idea of making cigarettes smell better was not new in the 1980s.
Yes! The main difference is that the Habanita, as I understand it, was to make the smoke smell delicious but not at all to “hide” the scent of the smoke, if anything, it would make a cigarette smell *more* like a cigarette.