That reminds me of when I was a kid, farting in the bath. As I saw the bubbles coming up to the surface, I wanted to catch them.

So I took whatever plastic container I could find around the bath - most likely the cap of a shampoo bottle - submerged it, and held it close to my butt when I felt the next fart coming.

I succeeded in catching some of the fart in the cap. Then I claimed my prize by sniffing directly from the cap. It was so much worse than any fart I've ever smelled.

As a true scientist, I've repeated the experiment on a few later occasions, and without a doubt : bath farts captured in plastic containers smell much worse than normal farts.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

TL;DR: No. The half-life of hydrogen-sulfide (one of smelliest constituents of a fart) reacting with the oxygen in the jar from just your fart is 12-37 hours. The article gives an example of a particularly potent hypothetical fart that would only retain any distinguishable odor for 9 days tops.

It'd probably smell like flowers based on where the world is going

What an image

Who do you think you are?

Runnin' round leaving scars

Saving your jar of farts

Tearing love apart

Wouldnt the poop particles have rotted away in that time and maybe turned into fertiliser? Maybe some interesting fungi would be growing. Ah, the circle of life.

Why does the fart jar in the picture have a spoon in it?

They've chosen the worst jar to put in the picture

We should sell barrel aged farts to rich idiots.

I guess it dependson how you store it?

Yes, funny, but methane falls apart if exposed to UV light. Then again, glass blocks most UV...

"It happened ONE TIME in 4th grade!!"

~I~ ~lied..!~

Farting in jars is dangerous business. You don't want to end up like that lady from 90 Day Fiancé do you???