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(NBC)- Ladies, there's finally a way to attract a man and save the planet at the same time. A beer powered perfume is now on tap.
When it comes to the male pursuit of women, guys aren't real choosy when it comes to the scent of a woman, but there is one aroma that does pique many a man's interest.
Welcome to Seattle's Blue Marble Energy, where chemists are cooking up a perfume made from the waste products of a local organic brewery.
James Stephens of Blue Marble Energy says the product is a viscous sludge - a mixture of about 50,000 different kinds of bacteria.
Black sludge, rancid beer grains, green slimey stuff and it's all good for the earth and you.
The grains replacing the petroleum in the process making this perfume completely carbon neutral.
The local, handmade perfume by sweet anthem does smell nice, comes in both masculine and feminine versions.
When asked if one goes better with nachos or chocolate, Meredith Tucker of Sweet Anthem Perfumes says, "Well, it's all personal taste."
Back at the bar, a test group takes their noses out of the beers and tries the perfume. It gets a thumbs up, but the guys are still pushing their own product.
"Beer smells good," beer drinker Conrad Eaton said. "A lot of people like beer, and a lot of people like women."
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