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A French company has come up with a novel way to keep people close to their departed loved ones: bottling their unique scent as a perfume. 一家法国公司推出一种新颖的方式来让人们亲近他们已故的爱人：把他们独特的气味存在瓶子里变成香水。 Like many struggling to get over the death of a loved one, Katia Apalategui’s mum held on to her late husband’s pillowcase to keep the precious smell of the man she loved. 如同很多挣扎着要摆脱爱人死去的痛苦一样，卡提亚·阿帕拉特吉的母亲紧紧抓住她已故丈夫的枕头套以保存她的爱人珍贵的气味。 It inspired the 52-year-old insurance saleswoman to think up ways to capture and preserve a person’s individual scent so people in her position would never have to long for a whiff of their loved one again. 这种行为启发了这名52岁卖保险的女人，让她有了获取和保存个人独一无二的气味的想法，那样像她一样的人们就不必再去渴望她们已故的爱人的气味了。 After years of knocking on doors to try and develop her idea, Apalategui was put in touch with the northwestern Havre University which has developed a technique to reproduce the human smell. “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,” explained the university’s Geraldine Savary. | 
