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Case file · 19981999

Febreeze or Febreze?

The Febreze Mandela effect.

🌀 What you remember

Febreeze, like breeze.

📼 What the record says

Febreze, with one E in the middle. Procter & Gamble launched it under that spelling in 1998.

🌀 Which do you remember?

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The case

The name is obviously built from "fabric" and "breeze," so the spelling should be Febreeze. The bottle disagrees and has since the product went national in 1998: F-E-B-R-E-Z-E.

This one is a favorite because the misspelling is so reasonable. The brand pun invites you to spell "breeze" correctly, and the trademark deliberately doesn't.

Why our brains do this

A coined name that sounds like a real word gets spelled like the real word.

Sources: Wikipedia — Febreze · Wikipedia — False memory: the Mandela effect

Where were you when you found out about Febreze? What do you remember?

The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of Febreze.

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