I just watched two grown men smell money for twenty minutes. Life is good.

@jonaskunnen7504

8 жыл бұрын

+LittleMikey That profile picture really adds to the comment :p

@littlemikey46

8 жыл бұрын

Jonas Kunnen It sure is good ^_^

@ignaodd

8 жыл бұрын

+LittleMikey sooo good

@Angelika..-

7 жыл бұрын

sums it up

@FloYnP

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe one sort of notes is newer and newer notes smell different?

Polymer banknotes are frequently made from polypropylene. For ten years, I worked as a chemist for a company that made polypropylene. Polypropylene, like most plastics, has to be heated until it melts in order to make it into anything useful. I noticed, many times, during my involvement with polypropylene, that when it is hot, and for a significant time after it cools off, it does indeed smell vaguely like maple syrup. The odor fades with time. If you come near machines that are processing hot polypropylene, the odor is unmistakeable. It is not the same as maple syrup odor, but certainly has some similarity.

@SteveMould

7 жыл бұрын

+Mark Holm interesting!

@moniquereed3294

7 жыл бұрын

That makes sense. The smell of burning automobile coolant (propylene glycol) is very reminiscent of burnt sugar/caramel. It would be easy to mistake that for maple. Remember: if you are driving and you suddenly think you smell pancakes with syrup, it's time to pull over.

@Scum42

6 жыл бұрын

Monique Reed holy crap that's really good to know. I'll keep that in mind.

@fufun4me

5 жыл бұрын

I worked in a signage factory and styrene sheets also had a strong, sickly sweet smell. Plastic smelling sweet doesnt surprise me at all

@jobansand

5 жыл бұрын

That's incredible!!

The good old days, pre-covid, when people casually rubbed currency on their faces.

@chrisanderson1513

2 жыл бұрын

I hate that this comment is a year old and I still relate. I have a mask on at this moment. :P

@KrypXern

2 жыл бұрын

Hey people from 2023, let us know how things are going please.

@alexandranorris8376

2 жыл бұрын

@@KrypXern equally bad, but people dont care as much

@WacoA.I.

2 жыл бұрын

American money smells like cocaine and desperation. Change my mind.

@aldenmaskell6407

2 жыл бұрын

@Turch People have just given up, it looks like we're all going to get monkey pox by 2023 and electric and gas prices are at an all time high 🤷‍♂️

I'm from Canada, and whether the Bank of Canada says they smell like maple syrup or not, they most definitely DO. They also smell more the newer they are. My theory is that it is a off-gas from production similar to new car smell, which might actually be harmful. A friend of the family works at a bank and she says the tellers always get headaches when the bills come in.

@AlexPope1668

7 жыл бұрын

Yup, this is where I'd be going with it. I've smelt the bills and I know what maple syrup smells like, and no, while they have a scent (especially the new ones), it's not maple syrup. That said, I can totally buy that someone could believe it is a syrup smell. Most people are pretty terrible at blind differentiation of low to midrange smells. They're even not so great at fairly strong smells- even ones that are familiar. The brain spends a good deal of time connecting the senses: if it looks like a strawberry, feels like a strawberry, then it should taste and smell like a strawberry. Take the look and feel out of the equation and it gets way more difficult to tell. If you're not sure about that, there's some research on how marketers use smells that are pure chemical fabrications (i.e., does not smell like anything authentic at all), in foods and candies to make us think we're smelling and tasting authentic things. Like, "Yeah, that kind of looks like a dried strawberry in my cereal and it says on the box that it is, mmm... tastes just like a strawberry," - when in fact both the "strawberry" and its taste in question are chemical creations. It's interesting stuff.

@SteveMould

7 жыл бұрын

+Alex Pope interesting insight, thank you.

@AlexPope1668

7 жыл бұрын

***** Yup. It's been a long standing tactic, especially by jewelry stores to spritz their air with baby powder and vanilla smells, because they are scents that remind us of good things and make us spend money more often than we would otherwise. Nasty trick indeed!

@sirdenys

7 жыл бұрын

...but why would they smell so different from the Australian bills, if they are manufactured in the very same place? (Regardless of colour, etc. because that appears to be irrelevant) This is all so puzzling! (I'm canadian but I've never noticed any sent, personally)

@AlexPope1668

7 жыл бұрын

Denys Tremblay Content. They may be made in the same place, but I would bet my bottom, syrup(?) scented, dollar, that they are made from a different combination of chemicals. Ultimately, the smell would be the result of the particular combination of chemicals used to create the bills.

We do, in fact, have sticky maple syrup fingers.

@seanmackey8552

7 жыл бұрын

Well I try to wash it off in all the snow. Having sticky fingers all the time can be a pain so I try to use my debit card. Lol.

@OzanUtku

4 жыл бұрын

and Australia just has Sticky Fingers

@TheNmecod

4 жыл бұрын

Barry Chuckle good pun mate

@canadianbutt275

4 жыл бұрын

we do

@AtlasVRC

3 жыл бұрын

Maple syrup is a part of a healthy Canadian breakfast, bath and hand sanitizer.

> Australia was the first company Touche

@alandouglas2789

8 жыл бұрын

Australia is the first to do a lot of things

@joshhall9475

8 жыл бұрын

Well a prison could be a company

@anti_nana4463

7 жыл бұрын

There was a group running India called the East India Company

@hainsay

7 жыл бұрын

+Josh Hall I'll pay that mate

@DamoZombie

7 жыл бұрын

think he was meant to say 'Australia was the first country to use' and/or 'Company in Australia makes' as he stated in a previous vid

7:35 *Steve:* You can't wash money! *Matt:* You're thinking laundering. *Steve:* Oh.

@tmg4884

Жыл бұрын

Its legal if the cops dont find out

1:18 those head turns tho

@seansiquig

5 жыл бұрын

ikr, it was the first thing i noticed, i replayed it like 10 times!

@sscswimmer1

4 жыл бұрын

Also 20:02 when they both start thinking and just have to touch their chin

canadian money doesn't smell like maple syrup, maple syrup just happens to smell like money

@tomsmith9281

4 жыл бұрын

In Canada Maple Syrup IS money.

@shawnpitman876

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomsmith9281 I mean, we *DO* have a reserve of maple syrup that measures in TONNES.

@martin11844

4 жыл бұрын

@@shawnpitman876 that's smart and funny we can say that maple syrup could get to be more valuable than gold

@gregneill4246

3 жыл бұрын

Well after all, it is a cash crop.

@twojuiceman

3 жыл бұрын

In Canada... first you get the maple... then you get the money... then you get the women...

I keep my cash stash in my shirt's top pocket while I work. I smelled maple and thought that I had gotten some syrup on me. However when I changed shirts and washed up, I still smelled the maple. I then pulled the cash stash out, it was warm from my body heat and found that it was scented with maple. I wish I could show you that the money did smell like maple, but I cannot confirm it was done when the money was manufactured or someone added it afterwards. It's not one bill, but all of them together, about twenty bills folded together that the scent was the strongest.

@ChamomileT

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently, its made with a chemical, that when hot and for a period of time after cooling, smells very similar to maple syrup. It was probably your body heat warming the money, having each note almost isolate the other and making just warm enough to smell the maple scent more than you would normally

So from what I can tell after a few hours looking around online, Innovia Security creates the polymer base for the majority of polymer bills in the world. The countries then receive these blank sheets and then they print on them like they usually would (with some differences) but each country still prints their money in house.

@SteveMould

7 жыл бұрын

+Jeff Mcfarlane interesting, thanks!

@ichigo_nyanko

2 жыл бұрын

It feels bad to me that one company has a monopoly on the creation of a significant portion of the worlds money.

"All Canadians have sticky, maple syrup fingers." - Steve Mould

"Because it is handled by Canadians, it smells like Canadians" and "Because it spent so much time in Canada, it acquired the natural sweet smell of maple syrup" are ridiculously amusing statements to me, as a Canadian. Does the rest of the world believe that we have syrup running through our plumbing instead of water? Or something like that? LOL

@noidSN

7 жыл бұрын

I wish we did.

@wurstkonig3621

7 жыл бұрын

not only that but i also thought you had maple sirup rivers and ponds and stuff. you're telling me there's no public maple syrup distribution system like for water? that's somewhat disappointing.

@cernanwinterfox85

7 жыл бұрын

Well we do have the national strategic maple syrup stockpile.

@wurstkonig3621

7 жыл бұрын

***** after you mentioned it i read up a bit on that. for that simple reason only canada has won my deepest respect. a national maple syrup reserve might be the best thing any country has done through human history.

@coryman125

7 жыл бұрын

Running through our plumbing? More like running through our blood! I don't actually like maple syrup please don't kick me out of the country

True fact: Canadian coins smell like apologies

@ksav1285

5 жыл бұрын

He is not lying

@voidremoved

5 жыл бұрын

insincere apologies maybe. smells more like corruption and special interests groups. Nazi RCMP officers, rape and murder thats canada

@epiccollision

4 жыл бұрын

voidremoved you’re clearly an idiot...

@playdead8734

4 жыл бұрын

epiccollision Sorry. You’re not Canadian.

@TheNmecod

4 жыл бұрын

PlayDead or he’s not a westerner

But what about cross-contamination between notes touching each other?! Should have had them all delivered individually vacuum sealed fresh from the printers and done the sniffing in air-tight chambers. Think of the citations guys!

1:08 Matt is so proud that Australia had the first polymer banknotes bless

@garbagesalt

2 жыл бұрын

1:06

I would've avoided using a Sharpie pen since it has a smell of its own. The pen was being waved about during the tests and might've affected the nose of the test subject.

It's 1 o'clock in the morning, and I'm sitting here watching two full-grown sniff bank notes. What in the world am I doing with my life???

@slendy9600

8 жыл бұрын

your living it to the fullest bro XD

@kyphilburg

8 жыл бұрын

3 07 AM for me...

@trickytreyperfected1482

7 жыл бұрын

kyphilburg 3:28 for me

@hergelqendov8878

7 жыл бұрын

it's 4:52 for me ...

@DecayedPony

7 жыл бұрын

This is one step above watching "how its made" at least.

As a Canadian I can confirm they smell like maple syrup but this only applies to the new plastic composite bills when they're fresh from the mint. It's very prominent in the beginning but after being in circulation for a while they lose their scent. Also they're not scratch and sniff, that's a myth. Also a large majority of Canadians don't handle maple syrup on the daily it's a once in a while breakfast topping for pancakes and waffles so you didn't need to wash them haha

@OrchidAlloy

8 жыл бұрын

It makes sense, too.

@emerson-sheaapril8555

7 жыл бұрын

Do we?...Well my british roomy did just tell me I "definitely have a quirky sense of humour" To which I farted and ran around laughing maniacally

@TheAndero

7 жыл бұрын

so its not Canadians and their sticky fingers smelling them up.

@emerson-sheaapril8555

7 жыл бұрын

Yep totally it's our maple syrup farts....and I think someone deleted their post that I responded to about south park and Canadian humor LOL..whatevs, my comment can stand in it's own! ITS A LIVE

@gavinward5448

7 жыл бұрын

Graver What? Now it smells of mint?? :-)

I'm Canadian and I confirm, our money smells like maple. Especially the $100 bill.

@Peter_1986

7 жыл бұрын

jean-sébastien dubé Money with a maple leaf symbol that smell like maple syrup - perfect. lol

@DELUXPLUS1

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah same

@trickydicky2594

5 жыл бұрын

More mapley as the price increases: $10= 10% maple, $20= 20% maple, and so on.

@gmillsy1086

5 жыл бұрын

The50$ s do as well

@justinalias2279

4 жыл бұрын

Yes 100% legit, only the $100 smells like maple though. Each of the others smells similar, but distinctly different

I like the world map in the background.

@reececrump8483

7 жыл бұрын

same!

@calinguga

4 жыл бұрын

oh man, i couldn't even tell it was a map, i thought it was a portrait (looks like a man with fluffy hair holding his chin, with his cuff in the foreground). and it's a projection i actually own a print of, buckminster fuller's dymaxion map. shame on me.

@felixo5574

2 жыл бұрын

i found it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map

@calinguga

Жыл бұрын

@@felixo5574 okay sherlock

Alternative conclusion: The Canadian $10 bill was washed the least proper of all (Canadian) bills.

This is the most pre-pandemic thing I've seen so far.

Dad walked in halfway through this vid and said "what the fuck are you watching now?" lol

Your channel is awesome, Steve! Keep going man

@SteveMould

8 жыл бұрын

+Maikel Versantvoort thanks Maikel!

I love Matt's facial expressions while Steve is talking

@robertarmstrong5015

Жыл бұрын

Could not stop notocing and scrolled way way down to find this comment!

Maybe if the washing up liquid/soap you used was scented it might have masked the subtleties of the maple scent. Also envelopes can be surprisingly pungent!

The best videos from both of your channels are when you do them together!

Hi! I'm a Canadian woman that thought the initial claims of our new banknotes smelling like maple syrup was stupid bullshit. Now I know that they do smell like that, but with caveats based on my experience. I've found that the strongest maple syrup aroma comes from brand-new, high denomination bills. The scent fades over time -- likely because they're getting handled and whatever is causing the scent wears away. The $5 & $20 bills end up neutral smelling fairly quickly. I don't think the Bank of Canada is trolling us all and secretly adding fragrance oils to the bills, but something in the production does cause a scent that is amusingly similar to maple syrup. And it's not our hands. ;)

The look Matt gave Steve when he said: "Don't worry he's had all his jabs" was priceless! 🤣

Watching this in January 2021, seeing two people sitting so close together while both wiping their noses on things and passing them between each other is... painful 😅

I'm pretty sure the place that they mint the Canadian bills doubles as a maple syrup factory ;)

The best 20 minutes I ever "wasted". And having great fun at the same time. Thanks guys, keep the noses in there :-)

The Canadian flag maple leaf is the sugar maple but the ones on the bills are the Norway maple. So, it makes sense that scratching the leaf wouldn't bring the smell out. I think scratching the queens face makes more sense; especially after breakfast.

@matthewmartel9295

7 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's not a Norwegian Maple, but rather a mix of many types of maples. (I believe I've that there are 11 different ones combined to make the shape.)

@EtzEchad

7 жыл бұрын

Matthew Martel The point is that it isn't the sugar maple. It doesn't make sense that the money should smell like maple syrup. What are they trying to pull here?

A few pointers on your experimental design (I know it is more than three years but whatevs): 1. Get fresh notes from the currency exchange 2. Don't use soap to wash the notes. The odor of the soap will mask any other smells

The Canadian money clearly smells like maple syrup, although I'm pretty sure the Canadian government didn't deliberately decide to add that aroma to the notes. More likely it's just a coincidence, like C4 explosives smell like marzipan, for example.

@evanwalters3637

8 жыл бұрын

How often do you handle c4? Are you secretly Adam Savage!?!?

@NoctumusTV

8 жыл бұрын

Evan Walters Darn it, you got me :)

As a Canadian I think it does smell a bit like maple but really only the new ones and it seems more strong when it's warm like if you took it out of your pocket after a few hours.

One possible problem, which I predicted before you started the blind test, was that your money was *recently* laundered. and hadn't yet had the time to rebuild any latent smell to the point where it was detectable by human noses. If you had segregated the Canadian and Australian money into two envelopes and left it for a day (or at least gone for a long lunch) , you might have had time for he smell to build up sufficiently.

I am canadian! We love when foreigners pay attention to us, so thanks! Also, this video is adorable. When I first heard it said that our money smells like maple syrup, it was specifically the 100 dollar bills that people were talking about. Maybe test those ones? Expensive.

You should first have tried the envelope test before washing them. Also, if the smell comes from out-gassing, after washing them you could try warming them up a bit; that might cause the plastic to release some of that maple goodness!

when he washed the money I thought that he poured maple on them

@OrchidAlloy

8 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@georgeruiz9211

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@wozit1

4 жыл бұрын

i could get uesd to canaian homour ,from UK were its difficult to see money letalone smell it ! :-)

I am a Canadian and have spent a lot of time sniffing our money :) What I found is the $10 dollars always spell much, much stronger! So my thought is perhaps the colour might have something to do with the smell as the Canadian $10 is the only purple bill I have seen... When you both guessed number 5 to be Canadian I was pretty conviced it would be the ten and was delighted to find that it was.

You guys are genuinely entertaining to watch; your banter cracks me up!

The final test with the washed bills in the envelopes was painful to watch due to the glaringly bad procedure. They washed the bills with soap that was undoubtedly scented, then put them into envelopes that would both trap the scent of the soap and have their own smells of paper and adhesive. The first test was more scientific because it tested just the money.

@bobbiusshadow6985

8 жыл бұрын

+Blackmark52 I was thinking exactly the same.....not scientific methodology....but that was just for fun, right?

@Blackmark52

8 жыл бұрын

Bobbius Shadow Yeah, just for fun. But what they are making fun of is the scientific method. Not something I would expect on a channel that describes itself as "Videos about science and maths."

@SteveMould

8 жыл бұрын

+Blackmark52 I disagree that we're making fun of the scientific method. We have a go at experimental design and get it wrong. Which we're honest about. But along the way we've discussed the ideas of experiential design and scientific method.

@Blackmark52

8 жыл бұрын

Steve Mould I didn't intend to impute your intentions. The context of my criticism was a response to "it's just in fun" and I was merely pointing out that the only thing bearing the brunt of the humour was the scientific method. And I was disappointed because you are a science friendly channel. Come on, doing a smell test by washing the test material is bad enough, but washing it in scented detergent-- argghh!

@SteveMould

8 жыл бұрын

That's fair.

as a Canadian, I am uncertain if I am offended or stupidly amused by this.

@ramendude246

7 жыл бұрын

Widdo Monki me 2

@aricpihrag1541

7 жыл бұрын

just apologize

@danahashcroft9482

7 жыл бұрын

Widdo Monki yep. not sure how i feel

@c28baby

7 жыл бұрын

Widdo Monki What a Canadian thing to say.

@GMCLabs

7 жыл бұрын

Canadians get offended? Thought they just apologize.

any freshly minted bill WREAKS of maple, you open your wallet and it hits you in the face

@coralaisly

7 жыл бұрын

Then it's not freshly minted, it's freshly syruped :P

@howycwap

7 жыл бұрын

badum tshh -_-

@kourii

7 жыл бұрын

+howycwap not to be a dick but it's 'reeks' by the way

@roblostandlate.6005

7 жыл бұрын

howycwap. Bank notes are not minted, they're printed. A mint only produces coins!

@RobFeldkamp

2 жыл бұрын

Not to be pedantic, so i won't

The newest ones smell the most like maple syrup, that is the reason 100's and 50's are less used 20s are most used.

@Demgam

7 жыл бұрын

The more they are handles the more they lose their scent

am I the only person who realised he called Australia a company

@leonardoschuler4187

7 жыл бұрын

the irish coinpicker no

@sethskinner1897

7 жыл бұрын

the irish coinpicker it isnt?

@matthiaswindrich9697

7 жыл бұрын

No, but nice job being smug about it. Keep up the good work.

@domsusefulstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Ahahahahaahahahaha. Come on buddy, this is KZread. Probably not even the first to comment on it.

@trickytreyperfected1482

7 жыл бұрын

the irish coinpicker someone commented that a year ago. so at least 7 months before you.

"I don't want to believe." -Steve Mould 2016.

"Australian. I mean, it smells of nothing. I mean, it smells like FREEDOM!" XD Oh, Matt, you hilariously patriotic man.

I work at a cell phone store in the U.S. I once had a guy pay me with bills that smelled strongly like butter pecan syrup. But that was because they were actually currently covered in butter pecan syrup.

love these collaborations; keep it up guys!

Very scientific

Being a simple Australian, I hear Australia and I have gotta add the video to my favourites

I remember when they introduced the new polymer bills in Canada and the rumour I knew was that it was the 100 bill that smells like syrup. I asked people at the bank and they said when the new bills arrived they were overwhelmed by maple syrup smell.

3:49 I automatically thought of Brady Haran and that is exactly how I thought of him speaking.

There must be some kind of placebo effect here. I moved to Canada quite a few years ago when lots of old paper money was still in use, then they've implemented polymer bills. And I did smell both of them...because I like currency and I smell new money I've never seen before, I confess :D And I totally didn't notice anything like that. After somebody told me about this myth now all Canadian notes smell like maple syrup to me O_o Go figure.

@SteveMould

8 жыл бұрын

+MrCorvusC that's really interesting!

@apollopicot5961

8 жыл бұрын

the placebo effect can't work in a a lions test though...

@minecraft15555

8 жыл бұрын

Not a placebo, a misunderstanding. Only the 100$ and above notes have the smell.

@natemaia9237

7 жыл бұрын

correct, i can vouch for that :)

@minecraft15555

7 жыл бұрын

Caeden W. Trust me, I live in London Ontario. As far as I can tell, it's just the hundreds, the rest is the placebo effect. This could be because the rest lose their scent before I end up getting one, but I haven't ever smelt it.

Hahahaha this is so great. They look so ridiculous vigorously smelling all the bills lol... I watched half this video being so curious about whether Canadian money really smells like maple syrup and then at some point I realized that I could reach into my purse beside me and smell it lol Update: my bills aren't that new so they smell like my purse lol, maybe I should wash mine too

@MarkovChains223

6 жыл бұрын

But, like, how much maple syrup do you have stashed away in your purse?

Matt and Steve are such a great combination.

So, maybe there's an explanation. Maybe the bills don't naturally have the scent of maple syrup, but in Canada it really acquires that scent through handling. So, Australia's money had only a faint scent because a few Australians do eat syrup. At the beggining, it was easy to distinguish betweem them. When you washed it, the syrup coat in Canada and Australia money went away. So, at the end you coudn't distinguish between them too, because there was no more syrup in them.

I think in the national bank they are stored next to the maple syrup

- Canadian bank notes are made by the Canadian Banknote Company in Ottawa - The 2015 New Zealand banknotes are made in the same place and they don't smell like Maple Syrup.

@pawccefawce3438

8 жыл бұрын

+James Macey They smell like sheep ass.

@jamesmacey7878

8 жыл бұрын

+Pawcce Fawce ⭐️

@boomerboxer3574

8 жыл бұрын

well then its well handled by canadians with syrup on their fingers

I thought I heard once that most money is printed in Canada. Also as someone who handles money nightly, I have to say it DOES have a distinct smell to it, maybe not maple syrup and maybe not intentionally, but it does have a sweet smell. Also since we got a new reprint it does seem like the newer a note is the more distinct the smell.

Everyone: A 21 minute video, smelling money isn't feasible or entertaining. Steve and Matt: Hold our hand crafted Australian beers

"wrap your nostrils around that one" lmao im dead

"Smells like oppression. Oh, the Queen! Sorry."

If Germany didnt have the Euro, you might say: "now try and get your nose on the mark" 12:55

One day, many years ago when plastic notes were new to Canada, I was checking how much money I had in my wallet. Suddenly, there was a strong smell of maple syrup. I looked around for the source, because it was so strong. Eventually I smelled the inside of my wallet, and there it was! The source of the maple syrup smell! It was INCREDIBLY potent. I had five comepletely fresh and unused $20 notes in there. So that is difinitive proof, and it makes me angry when people claim otherwise. The smell obviously fades over time, so I'm sorry you guys never got to smell it in all its glory!

@OrchidAlloy

8 жыл бұрын

Okay now I'm 100% convinced!

I'm liking that dymaxion map on the wall

@SteveMould

8 жыл бұрын

Good spot. Love that map.

@anitejbanerjee2278

8 жыл бұрын

+Wyatt Sheffield (Wyatt915) What's that? Sounds interesting?

@alexandrumoise1511

8 жыл бұрын

+Anitej Banerjee earth projected on icosahedron

Your test may have been skewed; the sealing glue on envelopes smells like maple syrup

@smacinnes15

8 жыл бұрын

+M.W. Vaughn Only the canadian envelopes, though

@bioLarzen

8 жыл бұрын

+M.W. Vaughn Then they would have said all of the notes were Canadian, not only one / three of them...

@MultiAxian

8 жыл бұрын

+M.W. Vaughn But they used the same envelopes for all the bills. If it was a source of bias, it would've applied to all the bills equally.

When my till opens, I can smell the syrup! I sometimes get customers to smell notes, and some cannot smell it, while others, myself included, can every time. It is most definitely true though! Also, the RCM had it listed as a security feature in their early drafts but removed it after some ridiculing. I think they just made it unofficial.

Matt Parker silently barreling the camera for the first two minutes of the video was an intense, but not unpleasant experience

*sniffs banknote* *gives knowing look that you've done this before* Ahem...

The notes smell particularly strongly of maple syrup when they are new. With time and handling the smell fades.

After work day at the office (New Zealand) we were hanging out with colleagues. We were randomly discussing how both NZ and Canada have plastic money. I suddenly remembered this video, told my mates about this myth and conveniently one of them was canadian and he did happen to have the blue canadian banknote (5 dollars?) and I had an NZ one. So we had a good laugh about it, but actually decided to test it just in case. Disclaimer: I never saw or smelled maple syrup in my life so I had no idea what I was looking for. However, right after smelling his banknote, that was it: it smelled 100% like I'd expect maple syrup to smell. My NZ banknote in comparison smelled like leather because of the wallet, not even a slight hint of that woody sweet smell. So we set up a blind test for our another unsuspecting friend : we told him that one of these banknotes would smell like maple syrup, his eyes were closed and on the first try, without even checking the other banknote he said without doubt : "this is it". It actually is that obvious. I have no explanation to this entire experience lol.

@juliansmith4295

Жыл бұрын

I'm amazed that it's possible to never have seen or smelt maple syrup. You were right, the blue one is a fiver.

When the soap was added for washing, I genuinely first saw it as maple syrup and was like "that's not going to help it not smell like maple syrup"

I think I actually have a test for this now Canadian (washed) currency in envelopes. Australian(washed) currency in envelopes. Canadian (unwashed) currency in envelopes. Australian(unwashed) currency in envelopes. Piece of flat maple candy in envelope envelope filled with plain piece of plastic Do not wash with soap, as soap contains agents designed to mask smells Conduct similar smell test as in the video

brand new Australian notes smell like crayons

@UNSCPILOT

3 жыл бұрын

Don't tell American Marines, they might try to eat them! Jk, of course, but good to know!

Canadian money has never been produced in Australia, however, the Royal Canadian Mint does license the patented Aussie technology for polymer bills. The Canadian Mint "has produced coinage for over 70 countries: centavos for Cuba, kroner for Norway, fils for Yemen, pesos for Colombia, kroner for Iceland, baht for Thailand, and a thousand-dollar coin for Hong Kong." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mint

The Canadian mint put maple scent on the latest release of the $100 notes. It was a one-off thing and the only reason you'd smell it on other bills is because they've been in contact with newer $100s.

8:08 adding some more maple syrup :D

@sylvicalias

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if there's some real soap/shampoo in Canada that actually is maple syrup flavored.

It's January 18th, the very start of the year, and I can honestly say that this is most likely going to be the weirdest video I'll see in 2016. Hilarious, great, watched the whole way through, but definitely weird.

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

Ah… thanks?

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

Ah… thanks?

@standupmaths

8 жыл бұрын

Ah… thanks?

@SpySappingMyKeyboard

8 жыл бұрын

+Ethan Education Ah... thanks?

@johnkapri6306

8 жыл бұрын

+Denis Ryan I am sorry to crush your expectations. watch?v=CnbxO7P7Xnk

Too funny. Totally gotta check this when I go up to Victoria area for Spring Break, visiting daughter & family the end of this month!

Quite possibly the most exciting KZread video I've ever seen!

The Canadian Govt. has spent billions on refining the maple syrup reduction process to produce the telltale aroma of money.

How am I spending my Memorial Day weekend you ask? Watching two men sniff money

its all so convoluted and i love it

i think the ink color on the polymer bills is where the smell comes from. purple/brown bills have the sweet smell which seemed to hold true for the AUS bills in this video too, where as the green/blue ones do not or not so much. I am Canadian and the $100 CAD bill which is also brown does smell a lot like maple syrup.

The 100 works best because it's used less

How come you guys couldn't just pull the note out during the blind test? Do they really feel that different? And yeah, as people are saying, the envelope and the soap could have masked the smell

@SteveMould

8 жыл бұрын

+TheBoogerBuster They do feel quite different which on reflection makes me think that maybe the manufacturing process is not that similar after all!

@AgentDRJ

8 жыл бұрын

+TheBoogerBuster Australian money vary in length and thickness with different values, Canadian money does not. So, some Australian bills would have been distinctly Australian.

I've been working for an NGO for a couple of years in projects in Africa, Asia, and Haiti. Generally, I would be responsible for finances (among other things) and therefore I need to count quite a lot of money (for cash counts, etc.). These bank notes seem to have a characteristic smell that is different from country to country. Of course, this is a hunch, not a scientific study but I wouldn't be surprised if you could identify the bank notes of a good number of countries with a relatively high degree of confidence by their smell. I'm not sure what exactly it is that generates the characteristic smells (if they really do exist). It's probably a combination of things but obviously money is being touched by people a good deal so the smell of their hands will come into play among a lot of other things. So as silly as it may sound, if maple syrup is consumed a lot in Canada (couldn't tell as I've never been there) and often enough leaves traces on Canadian hands that then handle money, Canadian notes may very well smell of maple syrup. The fact that they apparently lost their maple smell after having been washed fits this picture.

I'm Canadian, and I work with many different currencies daily and Canadian money isn't the only one that smells like maple. Mexican 20s and 50s smell exactly the same sometimes. Probably the same polymer being used during printing or something. The new GBP fives do sometimes but not many other polymer notes have the scent.

inconclusive proof that canadians keep thier $10 notes on the breakfast table.

@garcemac

7 жыл бұрын

Inconclusive proof that 90% of Canadian bills pass through Tim Horton's ;) I actually just had a maple glazed doughnut yesterday. Just doing my part...

Us Canadians are actually made out of maple go scratch and sniff one to try it out

Fantastically hilarious video gents! I'll have to study it a bit better, but it would be even funnier if the note that smelled like 'vast mineral resources' was Canadian!

As an Aussie watching in 2024, it feels weird seeing all the old notes. We changed our notes over the late 2010s/early 2020s, and despite working in a supermarket, I haven't seen all that many old notes any more.

It's a shame that the Bank of Canada doesn't add maple syrup scent to their money, because they totally should!

@SigmaSixSoftware

7 жыл бұрын

they said that but I`m sure they do it

@chucknorris3752

7 жыл бұрын

Im canadian and they applied the scent to the first couple thousand 100 and 50 bills, and through cross contamination many bills smell like it now. Kind of funny.

@SteveMould

7 жыл бұрын

+Chuck Norris username does not check out :)

It's so obvious Canadias make money out of maple syrup.

It's almost a certainty that the odor is due to one or more of the inks used to print the banknotes. The majority of inks contain glycols, many of which have a sweet smell. You could probably find a correlation with a particular color.

I worked in a machine manufacturing plant and when parts in the warehouse were painted in our paint department they smelled like maple syrup. I suspect there's just a chemical that happens to smell like maple syrup that's fairly common