The Scent

U.S. Dollars have a distinct, if somewhat evolving and ambiguous smell, with hints of inky cotton, leather wallets, metal cash drawers, and hundreds of sweaty palms, in a complexity that evolves and changes over time, as money circulates.

We used new, though not uncirculated, bills, focusing on the crispness of the fabric-laden paper and the ink.  The result is a light, clean scent with enough of the ink to make it unmistakably money, in American bills.

The Inspiration

How Euros smell different than Dollars

The Story
Money, by Robert Frost

Never ask of money spent 
Where the spender thinks it went
Nobody was ever meant 
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent