Bottling the "Odour" of a loved one
I wish I could bottle the intoxicating smell of my Cuban Shotputter :O(
A French company has come up with a novel way to keep people close to their departed loved ones by bottling their unique scent as a perfume.
Like many struggling to get over the death of a loved one, Katia Apalategui's mother held on to her late husband's pillowcase to keep the precious smell of the man she loved.
It inspired the 52-year-old insurance saleswoman to try and capture and preserve a person's individual scent so people would never have to long for a whiff of their loved one again.
She said: "This gave me the idea of of bottling a dead person's unique scent so that grieving relatives can keep their loved one's memory alive."
Finally she contacted scientists at Le Havre university which has now developed a technique to reproduce the human smell.
Perfumier Roja Dove, said "We take the person's clothing and extract about 100 molecules of their unique bodily odour. Then in a distillation process that takes four days we reconstruct it in the form of perfume.
She plans to launch their business later this year with the help of a chemist but the scent of the past is not cheap - it will cost almost £500 a bottle.
"We are going through funeral homes to offer families a small box containing a vial of the departed's odour that we would have extracted from a piece of material provided by them."
However she hopes the technology will not be limited to grieving relatives but could be used as a Valentine's Day gift between lovers or for children temporarily away from their parents.
Anyone interested ?
Humbles , They have standing instructions on not to give your pillow to anyone ..... eventhough how close the person might be that is one thing ..... other point is don't believe the rumours coming out from Wakra / Accha .............................. ......... Wed, 17.06.2015, 08.51 hrs ..
I heard that Humbles has "acquired" MM's pillow for some reason
Humbles: Please be patient. MM is now in a state of meditation!
This post is really fearful. @ MM , any good mesage from the heavenly bodies ?
Is this any different to people keeping Locks of hair, ashes or taxidermy of pets ?
WT: Very true. If people love each other, their memory lingers on and on for years and years to come after they leave the world. Their body odor has very little meaning.
The stupidity of the human race is limitless.
Rizks: How did you know about that ? Now , I can use her latex leotard to extract her odour and keep it for evere and ever ..
Brit, They may start communicating with you & may ask to do some kind of work for them & you are busy with your live relatives , your family will become big & all schedules of the day 'll get messed up & so many complications many set in ............................ .............. Mon , 15.06.2015, 10.08 hrs
britey, do you still have tat little bottle in which you bottled the fart of your Cuban shotputter ?
MM: How can they create trouble? They are gone.
Then we will be here to receive the Arriving Souls ................ .......... Mon , 15.06.2015, 09.37 hrs
But if you keep remembering our departed relatives ......... their souls won't be at rest .......... they will remember us in return .......... this way they will get disturbed from their personal routines ........... .................... they may think & plan to come back to our home & create some kind of trouble for us .......... that's the risk of this product ......... ............... ................... ............... Mon , 15.06.2015, 09.36 hrs
Novel idea .............. Will ask my neighbour for her unique odour .............. ........... Mon , 15.06.2015, 09.33 hrs