Elon Musk Hawking $100-A-Bottle “Burnt Hair” Fragrance: “Please Buy My Perfume, So I Can Buy Twitter”

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Putative Twitter purchaser Elon Musk has begun hawking a perfume called Burnt Hair via his tunneling firm The Boring Company, and has encouraged folks to pony up so he can acquire the social media platform.

On Wednesday, the Tesla CEO tweeted, “Please buy my perfume, so I can buy Twitter.” Musk also noted sales have now exceeded $1 million for the scent and changed his Twitter profile to read “Perfume Salesman.”Please buy my perfume, so I can buy Twitter Dubbed “The Essence of Repugnant Desire,” Burnt Hair is selling for $100 a bottle and will begin shipping in Q1 of 2023, according to Boring Company’s website.

Beginning a series of tweets over the past few days, Musk wrote, “With a name like mine, getting into the fragrance business was inevitable – why did I even fight it for so long!?” He then began posting sales units.With a name like mine, getting into the fragrance business was inevitable – why did I even fight it for so long!?Over 5000 bottles of Burnt Hair sold!

Musk first touted the product in late September:“Burnt Hair” – Scent for Men by Singed Although it seems gimmicky, the checkout process I went through takes you all the way to a payment form that accepts major credit cards and Crypto.