Development and Emotional Evaluation of Scented Clothing using Microcapsules

On today's markets has become increasingly complex since products contain more functions and have to meet increasing demands such as user-friendliness, manufacturability and ecological considerations. Eco-friendly functional apparel finishing for health and amenity using scented material has been applied by micro-encapsulation method. The purpose of this study was to develop complex-functional textiles by sticking cinnamon, pine and lemon scented microcapsules on sports-towel which can be given effect with refresh fragrance features for user’ healthy. The microcapsule wall was made from urea-formaldehyde (UF) and scented materials were produced by in-situ polymerization using UF. In the subjective evaluation, scented sports-towel questionnaires consist of 22 items. 204 subjects are first divided into gender blocks before they are randomly assigned group. On the other results of emotional evaluation, using Principle Components Analysis (PCA) for Category Identification and Regression Analysis for Quantification Theory, 5 emotion factors were categorized. Most specific factors correlated moderately with “refreshment” and “eco-friendly” emotion. Special attention is given to the relation between emotional evaluation and “refreshment” of emotion. Furthermore, many studies about the emotional clothing's performance and future ability of the design to increase the value of the emotional connection of the customer would be developed.