PRODUCT: Fuwarinka Candy - Does it Work?

My Google search keywords are demanding that I solve the mystery of Fuwarinka Candy. Very well then, I will oblige. I am sorry to say that the results are not promising.

I received two packs of Fuwarinka candy. One was flavored of rose and the other was flavored of citrus. As the packaging was all in Japanese, I have no idea if the candy came with any instructions as to dosage or any particular rules as to use. So I decided to start with eating one piece of candy and then increase it the next time I tried. I also decided to not eat or drink anything else for the one hour following my eating of the candy so as not to potentially mess with the chemistry involved.

I ate one of the rose candies first. It was disgusting. I am often enchanted by a hint of rosewater in a dish and I love middle eastern desserts that contain it. But in this case, the candy, which was a chewy gummy center that tasted of fruit surrounded by a harder candy shell that seemed to be doused in an oily rose perfume. I can safely say that there is never a time when I feel like ingesting perfume. It's not a flavor I crave. So right away I was pretty grossed out.

I waited the hour and then tried to see if I smelled like vanilla. I couldn't really tell. I thought I maybe might smell something, but I wasn't sure. If I did, it was very subtle. So subtle that it could just as well have been my mind playing tricks on me. Unfortunately, my husband was suffering through a cold and had no sense of smell temporarily. So he was no help. I tried to get my dog to sniff me to see if I could discern any changes in his behavior that might indicate a different smell, but we were in the kitchen and he insisted on sniffing the floor instead for stray pieces of food that may have dropped.

As I was getting ready for bed, I found that if I put my nose directly on my arm and sniffed, I could definitely smell a smell. But it didn't smell like vanilla, although I couldn't put my finger on what it did smell like.

The next day I tried eating two citrus flavored candies. These were much more palatable as they tasted kind of like chewier Lemonheads. I waited the requisite hour again. Still I failed to be surrounded by an aura of lovely vanilla aroma. This time, if I directly sniffed my skin I could sense the same smell, a little stronger. It wasn't vanilla, and it wasn't a bad smell, but it wasn't necesarily a smell I would go out of my way to have. It was a little fruity and a little musky. Then suddenly I realized that I don't often take a big whiff directly off of my skin. What if this was just the way I smell and I never noticed before?

So the next day I ate no candies and smelled my skin at certain times throughout the day. It was pleasantly neutral smelling to me. So my natural scent is not fruit/musk. That's nice to know.

That was enough evidence for me to put the scent down to the candy and to decide not to continue with the experiment. Although it did seem that the candies created some type of scent, it was not a vanilla scent and it was not an awesome enough scent to be desirable. Plus, I was afraid that if I at more of the candies, the scent would turn from "not bad" to "gross." And that would be my nightmare.