Death Scent

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  • Bottling Ghosts: Can & Should We Try to Capture the Scent of Our Dead Loved Ones?

    Bottling Ghosts: Can & Should We Try to Capture the Scent of Our Dead Loved Ones?

    In 2015 Kalain, a French start-up opened to a flurry of news articles. They claim to bottle the olfactive essence of your dead relatives for bereavement purposes. The process is simple; send them a scent infused item like a pillowcase, they work their magic, and bada bing bada boom you get a bespoke essence of your loved one Patrick

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  • Emerging Research on the Scent of Death

    Emerging Research on the Scent of Death

    Here at Death/Scent we tend to play with pleasant fragrances that are used to create an atmosphere of sacred space during death rituals. I am not, however, averse to talking about the darker side of scent. Especially when new research on the fetid haze of human decomposition may lead to improved forensic recovery. So let’s

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