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Scents have color, now? I am afraid I'm not synaesthetic enough to grok that :-)
While I asked whether scents marketed as gender-specific really had something to do with gender, I already know there's no such thing as an inherently gendered color. (Also: my favorite shirt colors are yellow and pink. Nobody's ever said they were inappropriately "feminine".)
Gendering a whole room is weird. How should a bedroom shared by a man & woman couple smell? Or a working room, or a saloon?
More pertinently, do you think anyone would complain about actual people smelling gender-inappropriately?
I've never heard anyone complain about someone else's scent being gender-nonconforming, but I have noticed a few men being careful that their own scented products conform. Not that often, though. Actually it's more common in my experience for people to worry that someone else (like, someone they're buying a gift for) won't want to wear other-gender-associated scents. For example, my mother-in-law gave us some floral-scented fabric softener while implying that my husband might not like it used on his clothes (in fact he likes it).
When I'm choosing a scent or scented object, my only worry is that my cat may not like it.