Asus has launched a thin laptop featuring a perfume dispenser. The brand offers multiple aromas that you can swap on the fly to suit the moment’s desire. No melted rubber or gasoline scent, unfortunately.
The Adol Book 14 is a compact and thin laptop made in collaboration with the fragrance brand Anna Sui. It features a magnetically attached scent compartment behind the display that releases nice odours around you.
To begin with, Asus will offer three distinct smells, including Rose. Depending on how strong the scent is, it could potentially improve your mood by teleporting you outside of the office walls. However, it’s unclear if the scent dispenser is active or passive. The former would have the advantage of saving the perfume, only releasing it when the laptop is in use. The packets remind me of wet wipes, though, so take that as you will.
This brings us to another point: refills. We don’t know how much these scent packs will cost individually, nor how long they are effective. For a monthly top-up, anything greater than £5 would be too much in my eyes. But hey I am not the target audience.
What tickles my fancy is that gorgeous 14in OLED screen. Boasting a 2880×1800 resolution at 240Hz, this bad boy is simply overkill for this size. Even more when you consider its 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut coverage and factory calibration to a Delta E below 1. Add to that a professional colour gamut switching feature and you get a laptop that can sit alongside the ProArt series.
Regarding performance, this laptop is powered by AMD’s eight-core Ryzen 9 8945H plus 32GB of LPDDR5X-7500 RAM. It carries a 1TB Gen 4 M.2 SSD and a 75Wh battery rated for 14 hours of video playback. Unfortunately, there is no dedicated GPU, so don’t expect to play any AAA titles on this one, particularly with such a high resolution.
Asus prices its Adol Book 14 at ¥6,999 (£754) and bundles it with 50ml of Anna Sui’s Wishing Elf Perfume, a custom mouse, a padded handbag, plus a bunch of stickers.
