For the grading suite that has everything: an aromatic mouse

The ASUS Air Fragrance Laptop was one of the curios of CES, and now the company is following up on the interest it generated with a wider release of the accompanying Fragrance Mouse.

ASUS’s diffusor-enabled laptop has only ever been a China-only product, but it looks like the accompanying accessory, the Fragrance Mouse, might be getting a wider release later this year.

It is, at heart, a fairly standard mouse, albeit a nicely specced one. The feet are made from PTFE material for smooth, swift glides, and it usefully benefits from three adjustable DPI levels — 1200dpi, 1600dpi, and 2400dpi — for precise control across different screen resolutions and surfaces. It’s also built to last, boasting 10-million-click-lifespan mouse switches (or editing one season of a reality TV show), plus those switches have a low-noise design for almost-silent mouse clicks for that cathedral-like grading experience when it matters.

Flip it over though and you see the difference. The ASUS Fragrance Mouse boasts an unusual design with an internal bottom compartment that houses a refillable vial that can be filled with aromatic oils. The removable vial can be washed and refilled with different scents, allowing you to customise your mouse to smell just how you want it, and presumably those oils are going to be slightly heated to release all that patchouli oil vibe (though that could just be us, a quick DuckDuck tells us that the likes of rosemary and bergamot are more conducive to encouraging work vibes).

Pricing and availability is very much TBA, though ASUS did confirm to The Verge that it was at least getting a US release in the next few months. And presumably, depending on which way the wind blows, if it does well the laptop version could appear more widely in the future too.