Company Turns The Scent Of Missed Loved Ones Into A Comforting Perfume

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Going by the theory that smell is the strongest sense in terms of memory, a French company wants to turn human scent into perfume. Scoop has more:

French insurance agent, Katia Apalategui came up with the idea of a personal scent perfume seven years ago, after losing her father. At the time, she wished there was a way she could store his scent in a bottle. Apparently, her mother felt the same way: “I also miss the smell and do not want to wash his pillowcase,” she had told Katia. Intrigued by the idea of preserving odor, Katia began to investigate if she could actually make it happen.

Eventually, she reached researchers at the University of Le Havre, and together they managed to come up with a technique to extract the odor out of a person’s clothes, and reconstitute it as an alcohol-based perfume in only four days’ time.

Now, Katia’s son has acquired the rights to the patented technique and plans to make it available to the public in September. “We will offer grieving families a small box containing a vial with the smell of the deceased collected from the fabric of their clothes,” Katia revealed. “It will be tailor made for clients, and will be sold at around 560 euro ($600).” The startup, called Kalain, doesn’t plan on limiting its offer to the funeral sector, though. They also want to make the human scent perfume available to students living far away from their parents or people who have to spend a lot of time away from their loved ones.