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title: "The Smell of Money—Canada’s New $100 Bill Smells Like Maple"
description: "The smell of money has a whole new meaning with Canada's new $100 bill. The enhanced security features include the smell of maple. The frosted maple leaf window has 2 tricks (that I know about). 1...."
url: https://somisguided.com/2012/01/28/the-smell-of-moneycanadas-new-100-bill-smells-like-maple/
date: 2012-01-28
modified: 2012-01-28
author: "Monique"
type: post
lang: en
---

# The Smell of Money—Canada’s New $100 Bill Smells Like Maple

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The smell of money has a whole new meaning with Canada’s new $100 bill. The enhanced security features include the smell of maple.

The frosted maple leaf window has 2 tricks (that I know about).

1. If you place the maple leaf window close to your eye and look at a light. There are hidden numbers you can see inside the circle.

2. If you scratch the maple leaf, you can smell maple.

This CTV report, including a segment with a Sannich police woman who investigates fake money, says it’s false. But as a perfumer, I can tell you it’s true.

Last weekend I was sitting in a pub with some friends and one of them knew about this feature so they got me to do a blind sniff test.

The bill smells like maple, or more precisely like immortelle. Immortelle has a herbaceous, honey scent with a hay or tobacco body. It’s maple syrup pancakes. Sweet, rich and wonderful‚ a double entrendre for Canada’s new $100 bill. I love the smell of money. Ingenious.

(Now I need to find a $50 and see if there’s any scent.)

UPDATE: According to this (http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/fashion-beauty/bank+notes+maple+syrup+scented+Bank+Canada+sets+record+straight/8437042/story.html), the Bank of Canada denies there is any maple scent.