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A hundred molecules

Posted by Robin on 28 February 2018 4 Comments

“We felt the need to keep these olfactory memories,” says Rabeau. Along with chemist Geraldine Savary from the University of Havre, he and Apalategui spent eight years developing a technique to reproduce human scent. The process remains a closely guarded secret, but in a 2015 interview, Savary gave a few clues: “we take the person’s clothing and extract the odour—which represents about a hundred molecules—and we reconstruct it in the form of a perfume in four days.”

— Read more at Immortalizing Human Scents as Memory Perfumes at Atlas Obscura.

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  1. Kanuka says:
    28 February 2018 at 11:46 am

    Speaking of the smell of humans I saw this in the Guardian

    Hate body odour? You’re more likely to have rightwing views
    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/28/hate-body-odour-youre-more-likely-to-have-rightwing-views?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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    • Robin says:
      28 February 2018 at 11:53 am

      I saw that and decided not to touch it, LOL — glad you posted a link though.

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      • Kanuka says:
        28 February 2018 at 3:12 pm

        I did wonder before putting in the link but figured you could take it out

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        • Robin says:
          28 February 2018 at 9:23 pm

          No, not at all — we can link, we just can’t say much about it!

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