A Fragrance That’s On the Money, Or Bottling the Scent Of Success

So perhaps you already look like a million bucks, but you want to smell filthy stinking rich. Except, what does that smell like exactly? A Microsoft sales VP thinks that he’s figured it out, and for just $35 you can literally splash the cash.

After getting over the initial shock that this is coming from a Microsoft employee and not a Jersey Shore cast member, you’re probably wondering what fresh money smells like. For men, Patrick McCarthy (the aspiring fragrance entrepreneur) thinks it’s “the woody aroma of newly printed money with a bold fusion of fresh ocean breezes, and bright citrus notes are joined by rosemary, grass, and precious woods,” and “the clean scent of freshly minted bills” with pink grapefruit, mandarin, freesia, passionfruit, Hawaiian wedding flower and a soft hint of melon for women.

McCarthy told AOL {via the Hairpin} that the idea behind the fragrance came from a Japanese study that showed an increase in worker productivity when the smell of money was pumped through air vents, as well as “how much he enjoyed the scent of fresh, crisp bills” coming from the ATM.

Okay, we’ll go to certain levels of fantasy when it comes to fragrance marketing, but is it possible that someone would enjoy fresh, crisp bills coming their way simply for the fact that it means they’ve got a decent amount of money in the bank? Just a hunch. Considering that ATMs have been shown to have the same amount of bacteria as public toilets, we’re also going to take a gamble that you probably don’t want to wear all of the smells associated with money.

If your current scent just isn’t pulling in gold diggers or sugar daddies at the rate you’d like and you still want to see if Money passes the sniff test, His and Hers versions of the fragrance encased in shredded money are available online here.