Why buy luxury bags or designer pieces when you can actually afford air de Paris? Often criticized for its poor quality , the air in Paris seems to have improved over the last fifteen years. This has given some people ideas, and they’ve simply decided… to market it. But how? By trapping it in a tin can guaranteed 100% organic. And some are prepared to pay a hefty price for it… up to 170 euros at auction! We explain!
Buy canned air from Paris: a great breath of air… in a small format
We promise you, this isn’t an early April Fool’s joke, but a 100% unusual news item! Protected in an attractive steel box,“Canned air Paris” offers you a real olfactory experience. For 11 euros, you’ll receive a box filled with air, guaranteed 100% Parisian. Inside, you’ll find 20% air from the Louvre, 20% from Notre-Dame, 25% from the Eiffel Tower, 15% from the Musée d’Orsay, 10% from the Champs-Élysées and 10% from the Sacré-Cœur, no less!
And that’s not all: the air of Paris is said to have health benefits : “The fresh air of Paris relieves stress, cures homesickness and helps combat nostalgia. It may even contain traces of liberty, equality and fraternity. A wonderful remedy for gloom or homesickness.
If this object may make you smile, you should know that some Parisians have snapped up the tin for a hefty price! As part of its “Paris mon amour” auction, which brings together historic and unusual objects from the capital, the Lucien Paris auction house recently sold a pretty iron can containing Parisian air. Estimated at around twenty euros, it sold for… 170 euros. A handsome sum that will allow its lucky owner to breathe Paris to his heart’s content.
At last, a Paris souvenir that won’t gather dust! And you, would you be ready to buy some wind?