This is the perfume area of a department store, which were often located near one of the major entrances.
Walking through it is usually a bombardment of different smells, and it can be a lot.
The joke is that you have to go through the horrible perfume tunnel to get to where you want to go inside the store (or the mall, if connected). It can be especially bad around the winter holidays and when it’s cold out, which is why everyone has long sleeves in the photo.
A lot of places you could go around, it was just a longer walk.
This is also a screenshot from a spongebob episode, a really trippy one where they were trying to escape from a ghost ship, and they go through different dimensions only to wind up back on the ship. This was one of those dimensions.
This is the perfume area of a department store, which were often located near one of the major entrances.
Walking through it is usually a bombardment of different smells, and it can be a lot.
The joke is that you have to go through the horrible perfume tunnel to get to where you want to go inside the store (or the mall, if connected). It can be especially bad around the winter holidays and when it’s cold out, which is why everyone has long sleeves in the photo.
A lot of places you could go around, it was just a longer walk.
This is also a screenshot from a spongebob episode, a really trippy one where they were trying to escape from a ghost ship, and they go through different dimensions only to wind up back on the ship. This was one of those dimensions.
I didn’t realize this was literally from the episode! You can see a border. Thanks for pointing that out!
As a fun(?) aside, according to the fandom wiki one of the writers has a fear of department store perfume sections, hence that part of the episode.