what's the smell of success?

Answer 1

No one can actually describe it, but you'll know when you smell it.

Answer 2

That is an amusing question. As a chemist I think of smells as chemicals of different types. I am reminded that the chemicals responsible for the wonderful smell of orange blossoms, indole and skatole, are also the two chemicals in concentration that are responsible for the smell of s h i t.

So whatever the smell of success is, it is probably just the smell of failure but less concentrated.

Answer 3

Could be the leather seats in your new Mercedes, or that "new house" smell with the fresh carpeting and bouquets of flowers everywhere! Your new $1000 limited bottle of precious perfume or cologne. Perhaps it's the smell of the ocean wafting in through the open windows of your private island estate! Ah, yes, life can be good, can't it? And I sure can dream!

Answer 4

Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 film noir made by Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists. It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and produced by James Hill, with Tony Curtis, Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster as executive producers. The screenplay was by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman and Alexander Mackendrick from the novelette by Lehman. The movie was photographed by James Wong Howe. The original music score by Elmer Bernstein.

The film stars Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison and Martin Milner. It tells the story of a powerful newspaper columnist who uses his connections to ruin his sister's relationship with a man he deems inappropriate. Lancaster's role as J.J. Hunsecker is based on famed New York columnist Walter Winchell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_smell_of_success

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=success+smell+of+&fulltext=Search

Answer 5

Alan Turing's answer is interesting because success tends to be bitter-sweet. There's usually alot of failures that hold success up and alot of pain too.

Answer 6

It's kinda like a sulphur smell, or a rotten egg smell

Answer 7

We should ask for Bill Gate's perfume cause he's a really successful business man,he's famous and also rich.

Answer 8

Sucess smells like sweat, as you wonder if you will be succesfull, then it smells like a cactus flower, a mockingbirds voice

Answer 9

i think its more a feeling cause you feel that theres nothing that could ever get in your way again :) well you know it . m,eh sucess is goodf =] andddddd its like all clear and freash and free and you know it when you .. 'smell ' it lol cya xx

Answer 10

smells like old musty books and paper