New Canadian 100 Dollar Bills – Feel Like Plastic, Smell Like Maple Syrup
Some people like the smell of money. Most people like the smell of maple syrup. If you like the smell of both, you’ll probably like the way the new Canadian $100 (one hundred dollar) bill smells.
$100 Bills – As Canadian as Maple Syrup
It has quite a few features with a plastic feel, some silver and clear areas, and yes, it has a faint fragrance of maple syrup. It doesn’t really feel like real money. It feels really slippery. These anti-fraud features are supposed to make it more difficult for counterfeiters to try to pull their slippery scams but one thing is probably still going to be an issue — most Canadian retailers don’t want $100 bills. Many won’t accept $50 dollar or $100 bills. I wonder if this will change anything…
What do you think of the look, feel, and the smell of the new Canadian $100 bill?
Yes, they do vaguely smell of maple. We’re living in some strange times, my friends. Strange and silly times.
they will eventually be replacing all the bills, 50′s in march 2012, 20′s, 10′s and 5′s in 2013.
Hopefully the new bills will help retailers accept the 100′s.
and I hope they all smell of something pleasant…
50′s like apples
20′s like weed
10′s like grape
5′s like the ocean
hee hee…
I’d say how bout if it were more Canadian…
$100′s like Maple…yes, but:
$50′s like Poutine
$20′s like Ketchup Chips
$10′s like
Beaver Tailspemeal bacon$5′s like Tim Horton’s Coffee
LOL….
I tried to feed the new $100 CDN bill into a self checkout machine Walmart last night It spit it out like a bad penny. But it spit it so far I had trouble finding it for a second!
My brother gave me one just a couple minutes ago. They are BEAUTIFUL. I couldn’t believe when my brother showed it before he gave me one.
the smell is strongest on the back of the bill…and if you get it wet the smell becomes more distinst. Real neat
It is actually a concensus at our workplace that the new $100 bills smell like curry.
hey john, is your workplace an indian restaurant?!
They smell more like Fenugreek to me, which is an ingredient in curry but has a scent similar to maple.
We should make the money smell like a beavers ass, or a caribou’s nards…
Or like Stephen Harper.
what a *** CENSORED*** waste of tax dollars
It really does smell like maple syrup. I tried it last night.
I thought i was the the only one ..lol
totaly maple or brown sugar
Actually Dick McGee, these bills will end up costing less in the long run, since they will prevent counterfitting and last longer.
I think it smells like curry
Slippery Harper money: This new Canadian counterfeit proof currency has a sickly sweet smell to it.Supposedly about crime prevention, certainly NOT about disease prevention.
One teller told me it makes her feel ill to handle it, counting the bills out all day long.
Heads up, all you chemically sensitive sufferers. Think the odour reminds you of new car smell or new carpet or dryer sheets? You could be right, since the common denominator for all of those is formaldehyde.
Only magical thinking mixed with misplaced nostalgia would mistake this scent for old fashioned maple syrup.
It is a chemical odour which the Bank of Canada has renamed a “fragrance” – and it is a penetratingly obnoxious odour, at that.
The source may or may not be the polymer chemical coating. Some think it is concentrated into the maple leaf on each bill. It does smell like thinly masked formaldehyde. This targets the generation that prefers cash to a cashless culture, and prefers bills to wireless transactions. Usually older, which also means more vulnerable to toxins. Ask yourself why they just created a chemical delivery system certain to be handled at some point buy by nearly everyone, those who serve your food, those who sell you items all day long, those who do your banking.
It makes your hands smell the same way. Awful. If you have any instincts about this issue, it would be a good idea to wash your hands and anything you touch, car door handle, steering wheel, right away after handling the new Canadian currency.
Holy s**t what’s up dream buster^ I don’t think anyone cares what I really is it smells lie maple syrup leave it at that my god.
The new bills are okay enough. but has anyone observed obverse side? The motto is Medical Innovation, then there is a bottle of insulin, a D.N.A. molecule and an E.C.G. line. Alongside these groundbreaking discoveries there is a picture of a woman at a microscope.
Two Men Watson/Crick American/British discovered DNA ( contributed by a woman Rosalind Franklin, she was Not Canadian but British! So why is DNA there as an innovation? I have no idea!
On to the Insulin. Again two men Banting/Best. Finally Canadian wow!
What about the E.C.G. line? Again male Einthoven and Dutch. Nothing to do with Canada.
How wrong can they get? To me as a Canadian this is insulting. about as insulting as if I were French and there was a bill with a motto of Chemical innovation a picture of Radium and a picture of a man at a microscope to symbolize the innovation. Radium being discovered by Marie Curie a woman.
This is not Female bashing at all.
Can anyone enlighten me as to what the artist was trying to convey? because all I got was an inept implementation of a good idea. Perhaps, and this is just a suggestion but just maybe the artist could have included ONE medical innovation from a female to tie it together.
I guess Mark Carney and Jim Flaherty don’t know who Banting or best were.
Canada was first to successfully use DNA to prosecute a crime, everyone remember Alan Legere in NB? Perhaps it’s a nod to this. The chief DNA technicain from the RCMP for this case was a female.
I personally think that the money has the smell for Canine units to sniff it out when people are hiding money in abundance. If your money isnt hidden with your drugs then you would be safe I presume, but if it has this smell to it, whether or not your money is hidden it is easier for the dogs to smell and identify that the large amount of hidden money is ovbiously illegal or it would be banked?
Robert.. do a little research before trolling. A quick look on the Bank of Canada website provides the design details. Innovation is not the same as inventing. If it said Medical Inventions then you’d have a legitimate argument. Medical Innovation shows support for our Canadian scientists that have gone beyond the invention and taken it to the next level.
$100 Note – Design Features
Portrait: Sir Robert L. Borden, Prime Minister, 1911–20
Signatures: Left – T. Macklem, Right – M.J. Carney
Size: 152.4 x 69.85 mm (6.0 x 2.75 inches)
Issue Date: November 2011
Theme: Medical Innovation
Canadians have long been at the frontiers of medical research and as a result have helped to save millions of lives worldwide. Notable Canadian contributions include pioneering the use of insulin to treat diabetes, DNA and genetic research, the invention of the pacemaker, and the first hospital-to-hospital robot-assisted surgery.
Researcher at a microscope
The image of a researcher using a microscope depicts Canada’s long-standing commitment to medical research.
DNA strand
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the genetic blueprint of life. Canadian researchers have been at the forefront of mapping our human genetic makeup in this field of medical science.
ECG
This electrocardiogram provides a visual cue to Canada’s contributions to heart health, including the invention of the pacemaker by John Hopps in 1950.
Insulin
The discovery of insulin to treat diabetes was made by Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best in 1921.