Chocolate farts (Picture: Getty)

This could be a perfect secret Santa gift for that flatulent colleague you just can’t face.

A French man claims to have developed a pill that makes your farts smell like chocolate or roses.

Christian Poincheval, 65, – who goes by the name Lutin Malin (Evil Leprechan) said he came up with the idea during what appears to have been a flatulent dinner with friends.

He said: ‘Our farts were so smelly we nearly suffocated. Something had to be done.’


He started selling the pills, made from natural ingredients, in 2006 and he says sales have been good.

He has even created the Father Christmas Fart Pill – that’s the one that smells of chocolate.



He added: ‘Some buy them because they have problems with flatulence and some buy them as a joke to send to their friends. Christmas always sees a surge in sales.’

The pills are apparently made of ‘mixed vegetable charcoal, fennel, lithothamne (seaweed), propolis (plant resin) and blueberry.’

Yum.