The French have made many important contributions to this world: the tuberculosis vaccine, Eiffel tower, cheese. And the great ideas just keep coming. I’ve just caught a whiff of a French invention that will surely revolutionize the world as we know it: a pill that allegedly makes your farts smell like roses.
The man who invented these perfumed farts, Christian Poincheval, is a 65-year-old entrepreneur who looks like a psychedelic Santa Claus. In the past, he’s created things like a garden rake that functions like a Swiss Army knife and a line of toilet paper inscribed with trivia and thoughts about current affairs.
But now….the psychedelic Santa gives us perfumed-fart pills.
They’re made from a mixture of charcoal, fennel, seaweed, and blueberries, which are intended to mitigate whatever foul and sulfurous odor is brewing inside of you.
A 60-capsule pack sells for 9.99 euros, or just over $12. Flavor options include roses and violets, plus a special edition of chocolate-flavored farts. Poincheval believes they’ll make great stocking stuffers, for all of that fart-inducing holiday food.
